Hey all,
I've been thinking lately of wrapping the chrome strip on the boot of my silver wagon with some adhesive carbon wrap. There is a WRX on rexnet that has done it (albeit the WRX is black) and think it looks fantastic. If I went ahead with it and didn't end up liking the end result would the wrap damage the chome strip in any way???
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Carbon wrap chrome strips
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Carbon wrap chrome strips
by garbo41610 » Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:54 pm
Car(s): Steel Silver MY10 GT Wagon + 1985 Subaru Sherpa
Mods: (GT) HKS Panel Filter. The HKS I put in the MY10 is the same filter I took out of my MY05 GT. So yes, they do fit. Custom leather heel pad to minimise carpet wear in the drivers footwell. Slotted front rotors. (Sherpa) 14'' 6 Spoke mags, Chrome Gear Shift (sick!), Alloy Pedals (sicker!), new positive and negative battery terminals, Alpine cda-9827 H/U, JBL GT 6x9's boxed and mounted (sickest!), Kicker DS650.2 component speakers mounted in the footwells in flibreglass pods, Alpine MRP-F200 4 channel amp (4x40wRMS), Rebadged with hektik chrome eBay badges, STi stickers for more powaaaa, "leather" handbrake boot, recarpetted with grey/black car carpet from Bunnings, sick Clarke Rubber boot mat, polished and waxed.
Mods: (GT) HKS Panel Filter. The HKS I put in the MY10 is the same filter I took out of my MY05 GT. So yes, they do fit. Custom leather heel pad to minimise carpet wear in the drivers footwell. Slotted front rotors. (Sherpa) 14'' 6 Spoke mags, Chrome Gear Shift (sick!), Alloy Pedals (sicker!), new positive and negative battery terminals, Alpine cda-9827 H/U, JBL GT 6x9's boxed and mounted (sickest!), Kicker DS650.2 component speakers mounted in the footwells in flibreglass pods, Alpine MRP-F200 4 channel amp (4x40wRMS), Rebadged with hektik chrome eBay badges, STi stickers for more powaaaa, "leather" handbrake boot, recarpetted with grey/black car carpet from Bunnings, sick Clarke Rubber boot mat, polished and waxed.
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by bass_straitener » Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:01 pm
The good quality wrap use a glue that guarantees no residue on removal.
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by garbo41610 » Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:14 pm
Awesome, thanks for the info.
Car(s): Steel Silver MY10 GT Wagon + 1985 Subaru Sherpa
Mods: (GT) HKS Panel Filter. The HKS I put in the MY10 is the same filter I took out of my MY05 GT. So yes, they do fit. Custom leather heel pad to minimise carpet wear in the drivers footwell. Slotted front rotors. (Sherpa) 14'' 6 Spoke mags, Chrome Gear Shift (sick!), Alloy Pedals (sicker!), new positive and negative battery terminals, Alpine cda-9827 H/U, JBL GT 6x9's boxed and mounted (sickest!), Kicker DS650.2 component speakers mounted in the footwells in flibreglass pods, Alpine MRP-F200 4 channel amp (4x40wRMS), Rebadged with hektik chrome eBay badges, STi stickers for more powaaaa, "leather" handbrake boot, recarpetted with grey/black car carpet from Bunnings, sick Clarke Rubber boot mat, polished and waxed.
Mods: (GT) HKS Panel Filter. The HKS I put in the MY10 is the same filter I took out of my MY05 GT. So yes, they do fit. Custom leather heel pad to minimise carpet wear in the drivers footwell. Slotted front rotors. (Sherpa) 14'' 6 Spoke mags, Chrome Gear Shift (sick!), Alloy Pedals (sicker!), new positive and negative battery terminals, Alpine cda-9827 H/U, JBL GT 6x9's boxed and mounted (sickest!), Kicker DS650.2 component speakers mounted in the footwells in flibreglass pods, Alpine MRP-F200 4 channel amp (4x40wRMS), Rebadged with hektik chrome eBay badges, STi stickers for more powaaaa, "leather" handbrake boot, recarpetted with grey/black car carpet from Bunnings, sick Clarke Rubber boot mat, polished and waxed.
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by hamish_023 » Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:39 pm
It won't damage it, it will actually protect it from UV damage etc
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by cruisn » Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:55 pm
Have discussed with Bosco's doing the one on his GTB in the near future.
IMO it works better on a dark car.
IMO it works better on a dark car.
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by garbo41610 » Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:15 pm
cruisn wrote:Have discussed with Bosco's doing the one on his GTB in the near future.
IMO it works better on a dark car.
Hmmm, you may well be right. I might just tape some on in the morning and see what it will look like.
Car(s): Steel Silver MY10 GT Wagon + 1985 Subaru Sherpa
Mods: (GT) HKS Panel Filter. The HKS I put in the MY10 is the same filter I took out of my MY05 GT. So yes, they do fit. Custom leather heel pad to minimise carpet wear in the drivers footwell. Slotted front rotors. (Sherpa) 14'' 6 Spoke mags, Chrome Gear Shift (sick!), Alloy Pedals (sicker!), new positive and negative battery terminals, Alpine cda-9827 H/U, JBL GT 6x9's boxed and mounted (sickest!), Kicker DS650.2 component speakers mounted in the footwells in flibreglass pods, Alpine MRP-F200 4 channel amp (4x40wRMS), Rebadged with hektik chrome eBay badges, STi stickers for more powaaaa, "leather" handbrake boot, recarpetted with grey/black car carpet from Bunnings, sick Clarke Rubber boot mat, polished and waxed.
Mods: (GT) HKS Panel Filter. The HKS I put in the MY10 is the same filter I took out of my MY05 GT. So yes, they do fit. Custom leather heel pad to minimise carpet wear in the drivers footwell. Slotted front rotors. (Sherpa) 14'' 6 Spoke mags, Chrome Gear Shift (sick!), Alloy Pedals (sicker!), new positive and negative battery terminals, Alpine cda-9827 H/U, JBL GT 6x9's boxed and mounted (sickest!), Kicker DS650.2 component speakers mounted in the footwells in flibreglass pods, Alpine MRP-F200 4 channel amp (4x40wRMS), Rebadged with hektik chrome eBay badges, STi stickers for more powaaaa, "leather" handbrake boot, recarpetted with grey/black car carpet from Bunnings, sick Clarke Rubber boot mat, polished and waxed.
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by kennysti » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:49 pm
Thought about doing this on my black wagon but instead of carbon wrap i wanted to use tint like you can get for the tail lights. Get that smoked chrome look to match my valentis
Black on Black..
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by dubbwah » Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:25 pm
I got a quote from Carbon demon to do mine
$480 for 4 hrs work
$480 for 4 hrs work
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by bates91 » Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:07 am
dubbwah wrote:I got a quote from Carbon demon to do mine
$480 for 4 hrs work
hahah wow...i knew he overcharged but not that much
fwiw he quoted me 1300 to supply a roll of vinyl wrap...got the same thing delivered from the states for $650
get some yourself and give it a shot, its not that hard to do on relatively flat surfaces
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by Sh4wry » Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:52 am
bosc0 wrote:Wrapped!
looks awesome Jake.
how did you remove the chrome bar
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by bosc0 » Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:59 am
Sh4wry wrote:looks awesome Jake.
how did you remove the chrome bar
It's a spare i bought. Pretty easy to remove though once you pull the interior tailgate trim off.
Might be keen to sell this one, as i've plasti dipped mine and it's help up well.
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by Sh4wry » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:15 pm
no probs let me know I may be interested.
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by ZeroCool » Sat May 18, 2013 4:00 pm
I CF Vinyl wrapped the chrome strip on my side skirts and they turned out nice.
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Re: Carbon wrap chrome strips
by zch91 » Sat May 18, 2013 4:39 pm
That looks mint. How much of a hassle was it?
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