Colour advice on a car wrap

[MrsNiki]

Hey guys!

 

Now, not totally made my mind up yet, but i'm erring towards wrapping my car in a different colour. I have an idea on what i want, but need some advice.

 

Firstly - Does this colour exist in a wrap?

Secondly - Has anybody else seen one like it?

Thirdly - Does it look chavvy?

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Pearlescent_Toyota_Supra_-_002.jpg

 

Any advice appreciated

 

cheers

 

Niki

[Ekona]

1. More than likely. If not, they can get it made.

2. Nope, not in a wrap and not on a Zed.

3. Very mid-90s. Whether that is a good thing or not depends on your viewpoint.

[S1 HNK]

Never seen that colour on a wrap. It may exist but will be hugely expensive. As for making it, the way they tend to do custom colours is to actually print the vinyl but obviously this colour couldn't be printed so you might need to get your thinking cap on again.

 

I don't think it looks chavvy but in my opinion just don't go too crazy on the colour otherwise it can look a little 'max power'. Why not go for a dark metallic purple

[spursmaddave]

Mmmmmm Purple.....

 

Just don't go for a matt wrap.....

[BulletMagnet]

RT-Performance do that wrap, but the wrap I have seen (on one of my brothers friends Celica) has a CF texture to it.

[AliveBoy]

I've seen varying gloss pearlescent white vinyls, if you pop down to a vinyl wrapping company and ask to look at their range of available wraps most places normally have a sample book provided by the manufacturer for each colour they can get. 3M and Hexis do some pretty trick colours now.

[rtbiscuit]

There are some flip paint style vinyls that hexis do. and from memory they do a purple one similiar to that, am not at home at the moment so cant check my hexis swatches but they do 3 flip paint styles

 

i think the one you want is hexis HX30VVSB variochrome beetle thats the closest they do. and its between £40-£50 a metre i would guess depending on who does the work (that won;t include labour) and you'll need about 10-15 metres at an estimate.

 

this video shows it a little bit

 

 

but this shows its colour change well

 

[rtbiscuit]

other ones they do are

 

Green-to-blue

orange-to-pink

gold-to-pink

[KyleR]

I've got the same idea, hexis has one as previously mentioned on their website but its a bit darker which I think looks much nicer

 

[rtbiscuit]

hexis only have 4 vario chrome finishes and they are listed above, which includes the beetle vario chrome, i think the videos have just shown them as lighter. i have the samples at home and they are darker, but its really difficult to show them in any kind of picture.

 

i forgot i had these; i took them ages ago trying to show another customer the colour change on the vario chromes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mikesding]

I would say it does look chavvy - but each to their own

[rtbiscuit]

used to work well on TVR's it was kind of their signature paint job. i would say a zed qould carry it off best if it was kitted. a stock car might look not as good.

[KyleR]

Rt - would it cost significantly more to have hexis etc make a different colour to what they already advertise? I'd be looking an extremely dark purple, almost black, but colour change to the darkest purple that you posted.

[rtbiscuit]

i've never asked hexis to custom make a colour, i have a feeling they might do it but you'd be looking at astronomical costs, possible minimum orders etc. there is no custom colour option on their website or in their brouchers, its very much "this is what we offer" etc.

[AliveBoy]

Rt - would it cost significantly more to have hexis etc make a different colour to what they already advertise? I'd be looking an extremely dark purple, almost black, but colour change to the darkest purple that you posted.

 

There would DEFF be a minimum order, probably of around 100 metres, they'd have to develop that colour too. I think it would cost a FORTUNE for them to do a one off colour. It would be far cheaper to go down the respray route

 

Edit: make that 300 metres...

http://www.hexis.co.uk/academy/Hexis/Colour_Matching_2.html

Edited June 6, 2013 by Dedman

[rtbiscuit]

if you wanted that you'd possible need to look at custom paint jobs but again you're looking at big money as the paints needed arent cheap. not only that if its damamged its impossible to match in, so its basically a full respray if you want to repair scratches etc.

[MrsNiki]

Hey guys

 

Cheers for this advice, given me something to think about! I think i'll speak to the local wrapping franchise (totally dynamic, anybody had any dealings with these?) and get a look at some colours! Something along the purple lines is what i'm after, but definitely not matt!!

 

Its gonna take a while to decide how to do it, whether to do the car one colour and have a body kit in carbon, or maybe have the roof black.... Lots of options! Just putting the feelers out to start off with

[MrsNiki]

hexis only have 4 vario chrome finishes and they are listed above, which includes the beetle vario chrome, i think the videos have just shown them as lighter. i have the samples at home and they are darker, but its really difficult to show them in any kind of picture.

 

i forgot i had these; i took them ages ago trying to show another customer the colour change on the vario chromes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I actually really really like the colour of the purple in this pic, would something this shade and as sparkly be available, or is it the fact its a flip colour that makes it as metallic as it looks?

 

May just be swayed into something like this instead of a pearlescant one....

 

decisions decisions....

[rtbiscuit]

There is a metallic purple from I think Avery, but no air Tec, but I think you can wrap with it. You'd need to speak to your wrapper to see what they can get/use etc