That pretty awesome Kinda reminds me of the movie Taxi where Giselle is in the blue BMW then rips the paint off and it turns red

 

That is very intresting. However, I can't imagine it comes out as finely finished as paint, specifically all the edges. I can see this being popular for a taxi or a race car but would it work for a daily driver?

 

That is real real cool, can you do metallic colors?


I'm pretty sure nascar uses vinyl like the taxi companies out here.

 

The foil wrap seems to give a much more OEM look and shine. We are about the have our company van "wrapped" and it looses its shine and gives it a more dull finish. The NASCAR boys are wrapping with this vinyl.

Stephen @ GMP

 

As of today, 1,250 € equals $ 1,511.91 according to http://www.xe.com/

There have to be companys in NA who are able to do this, no?

It depends on how much you wanna spend. If you want a perfect job than the bumpers, lights, etc. are taken off to install the foil and no borders or edges are visible AFAIK.

Here are a couple of pics showing a BMW M style foil being applied onto a M3 CSL:


Finished product:




More pics:
http://www.m3csl.net/images/m3cslgtr5desktop.jpg
http://www.m3csl.net/images/m3cslgtr2.jpg
http://www.ringfotograf.de/fotos/touri_20050427/032.jpg
http://www.ringfotograf.de/fotos/touri_20050427/416.jpg

Foliocar (link posted earlier) only offers metallic silver, you can choose between glossy or matt finish on the other colors though.

Oh, and they also offer chrome-finish:
http://www.foliocar.de/popup_galerie.php?id=348

That's what Mercedes used for their 2004 calendar:
http://www.nikochan.net/link/1083/
(to reiterate, that's foil, not paint like in the 50 Cent Murcie-thread)

BTW, I overlooked this earlier:
You are right, here's a video of the process:
http://www.foliocar.de/movie/rueckruestung_hq_divx.avi

 

man, that looks good. It is like they wrap a boat for the winter with much more attention to detail.

Stephen

 

The RUF car is originally black metallic and can be restored.

In Sweden it's quite common for Taxis to have this for ads etc.
Now there's an idea for other cities

 

Good timing for this thread.



Ingolstadt, 22 March 2006



Films instead of paint – the Audi A4 DTM design

Modern racing cars are no longer being painted
18 days until the start of the 2006 DTM
During the official DTM test drives at Brands Hatch (England) and the DTM presentation in Düsseldorf next weekend the Audi A4 DTM cars will be seen for the first time in the new colours and designs for the 2006 season. Yet the liveries are no longer "painted” on the vehicles: Modern racing cars are completely covered with pressure-sensitive film.

There are several reasons why the design of an Audi A4 DTM hardly involves the use of classical paint any more: The high-performance films are lighter and less expensive than paint, and it is easier to spot-repair damage from chipping, for example. In addition, there are no problems with different colour hues, and neither does the "paint off the roll” need to dry.

The high-tech films are available in a vast array of colours, giving the vehicle its basic colour. Sponsors’ logos, inscriptions and the drivers’ names, which this year will be displayed in large letters on the cars, as well as the competition numbers are created by digital printing, and cut out using computer-controlled equipment. Then, classical handwork is used to press the films against the surface where they are smoothed out with a felt-covered roller to prevent scratching.

Thanks to the films it is much easier to "repaint” the cars than it used to be. As such, Martin Tomczyk’s last year’s blue Audi very quickly became Christian Abt’s new black A4…

Tomorrow: On the tracks of Walter Röhrl

 

OMFG that is so cool lol, i wanna do my car RUF orange

 

This is so hyper badass. I wonder if you could foil over the headlights so that theywould only appear when turned on?

 

Huh LOL That would reduce light output significantly dont you think?

 

I don't know. I think it's entirely dependent on the level of transparency of the color you put over the lights. Given that I don't know how transparent this film is I imagine that the end result could potentially be as little as the smoked headlights I have seen on some cars. There's little doubt it would reduce it some, I just don't know enough to guage how much it would reduce it by. I imagine the heat given off by the light might be as much of a problem as the blockage of that light.

 

i want to find out how to import this stuff... hmmmm maybe a business idea

 

wasnt someone asking whether bmw would paint their car like that at the factory? (the csl)

damm cool idea.