Vinyl on my roof?

[jibaholic101]

i am new to this whole vinyl fad, and i am now really wanting to gloss black vinyl the roof of my car. i have no idea what i should expect to pay or anything of the sort. the two quotes i have gotten are upwards of $400! i find that a little absurd considering how the materials are inexpensive. what should i look to pay? is this something that could be done by myself easily? help!

[IZAGLO]

you gotta be kidding me LOL....the last car that i saw with style was my fathers red 1970 something Cadillac with a white vinyl top..classy LOL...that car embarrassed me so much i would not go in it...maybe a powder blue leisure suit with white shoes would work as the 2nd wild color scheme...vinyl sucks on floors and on cars is even worse....what are you thinking here????

[driftdriven]

What are you talking about??? I am sure jib is talking about the vinyl that is like a sticker or decal material not the vinyl like fake leather!

jib - black vinyl looks awesome on AW and if you do it right with rim color the car will look amazing! There are some pics in the photo forums and if you don't like it you can just remove it. Keep in mind that installing the vinyl is time consuming so it is the labour that drives up the cost and not the actual vinyl.

[randomquickness]

doing this to my car as we speak, to do it right takes time and patience. you can get the vinyl from www.bmwshadowline.com for a fair price and then have a ceritified vehicle wrapper do the installation for $100 or less easily. I'll post up a new thread with pics and details when mine is finished.

[jibaholic101]

yes guys, i want leather on my roof, you got me there

of course i am talking about the black sticker which is known as vinyl for the roof

[jibaholic101]

Originally Posted by randomquickness

doing this to my car as we speak, to do it right takes time and patience. you can get the vinyl from www.bmwshadowline.com for a fair price and then have a ceritified vehicle wrapper do the installation for $100 or less easily. I'll post up a new thread with pics and details when mine is finished.

i will be ordering the vinyl from that site very shortly

$100 or less is what i had in mind, not the $400 i was quoted around here

[1013mm]

we get quotes from 100-400 in socal. diy???

[jibaholic101]

Originally Posted by jzhang

we get quotes from 100-400 in socal. diy???

the thing is, would i trust myself to do a good job in a timely fashion and do the shark fin as well. i thought the diy took like 2 days....

[Bimmer-Bob]

Originally Posted by IZAGLO

you gotta be kidding me LOL....the last car that i saw with style was my fathers red 1970 something Cadillac with a white vinyl top..classy LOL...that car embarrassed me so much i would not go in it...maybe a powder blue leisure suit with white shoes would work as the 2nd wild color scheme...vinyl sucks on floors and on cars is even worse....what are you thinking here????

That's the first thing I thought, too. Maybe I'm too old for this thread.

Everyone has different tastes, of course, but man, people do weird things to their cars...

[randomquickness]

you could do the whole thing in a day but you will need an extra set of hands.

[jibaholic101]

obviously, random when will yours be done? how will you be doing the shark fin and doing the roof rails so that the ports still open?

[randomquickness]

Hopefully mine will be done tomorrow evening. Between school and rotc I haven't had a chance to finish it. The shark fin I removed and painted with a gloss black krylon enamel. The roof rails were done with the roof and then cut and formed to the edges and roof rack ports. I'll try and get a more detailed thread and pics up tomorrow but it could be sat.

[jibaholic101]

looking forward to seeing your thread. would you be available to answer some PM questions if i have any when i get around to doing it?

[randomquickness]

of course, isn't that what these forums are for!

[Castr_85M]

I'm taking delivery on a 2010 AW/CR 135i6mt on monday and i want to do this asap. Is. have this on my White G37sCoupe and it looks great, many many compliment. There is a guy who makes custom overlays for the Infiniti's already precut for 60 bucks, bluebatmobile.net, very good high quality piece. I'll be contacting him to see his interest on making them for the 1 series.

[Papethova]

Material should cost $100-$150 you can get it done with a few buddies in 1-3 hours depending on how you work.

You can remove the shark fin. Definitely remove the side rails and wrap them separately. Use a credit card to tuck the front and back underneath the rubber trim.

Its not exactly a sticker, people worry about getting bubbles underneath. The material breathes so the air escapes.

Do some searches there have been a few posts about how to do this.

PM me if you need help, I can show you pics too.

[nordique14]

Originally Posted by Bimmer-Bob

That's the first thing I thought, too. Maybe I'm too old for this thread.

Everyone has different tastes, of course, but man, people do weird things to their cars...

I am with you. I like to think that I am not old but I do not understand the current love affair everyone seems to have with carbon fiber and vinyl. I guess I am now officially an old fart.

[Tom K.]

Originally Posted by nordique14

I am with you. I like to think that I am not old but I do not understand the current love affair everyone seems to have with carbon fiber and vinyl. I guess I am now officially an old fart.

But wouldn't it look great on our convertible tops??

Tom

[nordique14]

Originally Posted by Tom K.

But wouldn't it look great on our convertible tops??

[emac08]

tried the DIY with $50 worth of vinyl.. i failed lol. Made sense to me why people can charge a lot for doing it.. any how the quotes I got from a couple places here in socal was 80 bucks (i provide my own material) roof only... and then another company said $350 (vinyl was provided for me). im going to another guy this weekend to see how much for roof/ tii stripes.

[R0n1n]

I had mine done a few days after I got my car, it was something set in stone from the beginning just had to do it.

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showt...=250884&page=2

[mineo77]

anybody got any pics of a TiAg with a black roof?