Example: Carbon Fiber Wrap on Internal Door Handles

[Vee37]

My internal door handles were a little scuffed, So I thought I would try out wrapping them in Carbon Fiber effect Vinyl. I checked ebay, and they all seemed a little dark, but outside of ebay they were considerably more expensive, and this was my first attempt; so I went with something easy and cheap.

An example of how they looked before.

And after the wrap.

I also did the drivers side. I wasn't sure if the wrap would look better with the direction going up-down or sideways. I meant both to go up, but I wasnt paying attention, and now the drivers door wrap goes sideways. Looking on the positive side, it gives me a chance to choose which way looks best. Its a toss up for me, so others opinions are welcome. ANd it will be easy to remove the one I dont like, and do it again.

I think the marks are scuff marks when I carried them from the apartment to the garage. I am guessing a wipe down will get them back to 100%.

As i said, this was my first go at Vinyl wrapping, and I have to say, it was dead easy, the Vinyl was very forgiving, heating the vinyl made it almost like glad-wrap stretchy; I used a heat gun, but it was actually almost too strong and a hair dryer might even be better. I would of gone for a lighter wrap, but this dark one (and it is almost all black) was simple to order on eBay. Its "7D" which I think relates to how glossy it is; but I dont think its all that.

After seeing how black it is, and how easy it was, I am thinking to do the rear boot-lip spoiler in this carbon Fiber effect wrap; on my black car.

[V35_Paul]

Yeah i think the lighter would look better on the door handles but if you do your boot lip i think the dark  

[Vee37]

remember I said how forgiving the wrap was? Watch how many times this professional wrap guy places and removes and places and removes over and over, when doing a bonnet.He does make it look like a DIY with minimal tools or experience.Almost makes me wish I did not have a black car. Almost

He does make me a little more impressed with the fact my eBay wrap is just so dark. He also makes it clear my external wrap of the spoiler, will be susceptible to water getting into/under the wrap layers.  But I probably have enough wrap to redo the spoiler 3 times at least. And I can always fall back to my original idea of using Anthracite PlastiDip instead. I have 4 cans of Anthracite in prep of doing my stock 19" wheels. It has become clear the Anthracite would really look good with the a glossifier (and maybe even a metaliser), but that would double/triple the cost and effort.

PS: its 52min long, so I watched at x2 speed and jumped some of the "filler"

Edited March 21, 2022 by Vee37

[Vee37]

Just an FYI, in case anyone wondered "what the spoiler would look like in Carbon Fiber". The weekend before last, I put some of the wrap on the rear spoiler. I actually did a really shockingly bad job on it, but now know how to avoid all the mistakes I made, and I have plenty of wrap left for another attempt or possibly 3.

Anyway, I have left it on, just to see what I think of it, as at first I wasn't that much impressed. Unless you get up close, it really just looks black. Ive attached some photos to give you an idea of what I mean.

However, its actually starting to grow on me. And when I was looking for these photos (some taken a few days ago), I came across a "before" one where it was the original factory chrome, and it really looks bad to me now.

I have purchased 4 case of Anthracite plastidip for the wheels, and my next idea is to peel off the black carbon fiber vinyl wrap on the spoiler, plastidip it with Anthracite, and also do the "S K Y L I N E" in Anthracite. That way the spoiler and the text would colour match. On a side, I have already done my front grill in Gloss Black plastidip.