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Old 05-29-14, 11:53 PM
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used oracal 970ra gloss black did the roof shark fin and grill first time doing vinyl wrap came out pretty good!
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Wow, I'm really impressed. Do you think it was worth wrapping the shark fin? I hear it will peel quick. I'm going to get my starfire pearl is roof vinyl'd middle of next month. And what'd you mean you wrapped the grill. Didn't it already come as black?
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Nice! How long did it take you?
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for the shark fin i wouldn't leave it white it just sticks out and looks odd for the fin i had to actually make a overlap or it would of had a crease i wrapped the grill surround took me about 6hrs with help ran into a lot of problems
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I like, looks great.
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Bro outside, let's take a look
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Oh ok, I see what you mean now. The outer grill. Ya I'm planning on either buying another oem gloss black one
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i recently did mine in carbon fiber... and for the fin, instead of wrapping it, i plasti-dipped it..
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