Ben J
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They are wrapped matt black not painted!!!!!! 
WTF
Should have left them gloss black imo. Matt black wrap is a bitch to keep nice! I've heard that several RS500's have been returned/refused due to marks on the wrapping appearing!
Theres a guy thats got his Astra VXR wrapped in matt black and he says even flies hitting the bonnet at high speed cause small "shiney" patches to appear.
£35k car 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fliquibzhQ
[Edited on 01-08-2010 by Ben J]
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VegasPhil
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That is confusing, Surely they know a wrap won't last or look decent for longer than a couple of years?!
What if it needs a repair, the whole car would need wrapping again to make it look decent. 
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Rich H
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Yeh it's 3M dinoc stuff like a lot of people are using for carbon wrapping.
Massively impractical and a bit cheap imo!
It's the best wrap I've seen up close, but still will look crap after the shortest of drives lol.
Bugs are one of the main things imo too as obviously their guts turn to acid and will eat into the vinyl! Same as bird crap etc.
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Ben J
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Supposedly Ford will replace or re wrap the panels if they get damaged.
Yeah right. Can't see them sticking to that. You'd be at a dealership after every spirited drive.
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SnK
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Wrappings a waste of time anyway, its about 2k to wrap a car. We had a customer buy a lamborghini gallardo but he didnt want it in black.. he wanted it in white. So we got it wrapped. He came back next month traded it in and bought a ferrari f430 but not in rosso red.. in wrapped white.. haha! As said its a bastard to keep clean.
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Ben J
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quote:
Originally posted by Rich H
Yeh it's 3M dinoc stuff like a lot of people are using for carbon wrapping.
Massively impractical and a bit cheap imo!
It's the best wrap I've seen up close, but still will look crap after the shortest of drives lol.
Bugs are one of the main things imo too as obviously their guts turn to acid and will eat into the vinyl! Same as bird crap etc.
Does it wash okay??? Can it be waxed?
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Ben J
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I think they should have either left it gloss black, or just wrapped bonnet and roof or something.
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VegasPhil
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They looked lovely in the gloss black though 
Is it an option or do they come matt?
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Rich H
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It can be washed and that's it. All normal waxes and polishes are made redundant. I'm pretty sure you can only use a pure shampoo too, not a wash and wax.
Swissvax have launched a new range called opaque designed for satin and matt finishes which apparently works well, but matt paint is still useless - if you scratch it you stand no chance of polishing it out
BMW with their new satin finishes on their M cars are making people sign disclaimers before they take their car to say they wont polish or wax it otherwise they invalidate their paint warranty!
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Ben J
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quote:
Originally posted by VegasPhil
They looked lovely in the gloss black though
Is it an option or do they come matt?
They come matt, but i'd be asking for it unwrapped tbh.
A guy went to pick his up from dealership, and asked if he needed to do anything special to look after the matt paint, the dealer told him it was a wrap and so he told them to stuff it and walked away from the deal.
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Ben J
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quote:
Originally posted by Rich H
It can be washed and that's it. All normal waxes and polishes are made redundant. I'm pretty sure you can only use a pure shampoo too, not a wash and wax.
Swissvax have launched a new range called opaque designed for satin and matt finishes which apparently works well, but matt paint is still useless - if you scratch it you stand no chance of polishing it out
BMW with their new satin finishes on their M cars are making people sign disclaimers before they take their car to say they wont polish or wax it otherwise they invalidate their paint warranty!
Its going to cost Ford loads
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connollygt30
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I hope someone has the balls to buy an RS500 and get the vinyl removed
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DERV-POWER
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they should of done them in a one off colour instead of wrapping them
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AK
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what a daft idea....
maybe have it as a cost option or something
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A2H GO
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben J
quote:
Originally posted by Rich H
It can be washed and that's it. All normal waxes and polishes are made redundant. I'm pretty sure you can only use a pure shampoo too, not a wash and wax.
Swissvax have launched a new range called opaque designed for satin and matt finishes which apparently works well, but matt paint is still useless - if you scratch it you stand no chance of polishing it out
BMW with their new satin finishes on their M cars are making people sign disclaimers before they take their car to say they wont polish or wax it otherwise they invalidate their paint warranty!
Its going to cost Ford loads
My local BMW has both an brand new M3 and M5 in matt black. Both are wrapped.
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A2H GO
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I'd buy one and unwrap it, only colour i'd have an RS in is black, all the others look chav.
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gavin18787
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I assume they are painted underneath? If so unwrap ftw.
Seems a bit of a crap idea by ford this one
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FlamingCorsa
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they are not making many of the focus rs500 tho so not gonna be huge cost issue really!
3m must be prety confident in there wrap or am pretty sure the deal would not have be done!
its gonna pretty interesting to c how it lasts! maybe it will suprise us all!
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kz
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What colour are they underneath? Or have I missed that part...
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Cole
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the silly thing is 3m do not recomend there vinyl for exterior wrapping i had my bonnet wrapped ive had it done for 2 months and ive taken it off becasue it looks shite once its dirty its dirty and form of grease gets on it it stains it forever becasue there is nothing you can really clean it with
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VegasPhil
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Gloss black in the YouTube vid 
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Ojc
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Black
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connollygt30
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Panther black
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Jonny_H
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Wraps look rubbish on any car, should of left it gloss black.
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ed
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It's to cater for the boring fuckers who think stuff like that on a car like that is cool.
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