Vinyl roof... Pics, not asking advice.

[Wayne]

how damaging is vinyl to the paint underneath over time?

It does or should not damage the paint underneath if it is sound however when I removed the chequer roof I had you could see the squares as the uncovered paint faded a little and no amount of polish / cutting back would remove it,

but if i were to cover a whole bonnet no of it would fade. hmmmmmm

You will be ok if you cover the whole panel. 

Did Blu not have trouble removing vinyl where it took the lacquer off his roof resulting in a respray ??

You can get issues if the panel has been repainted.

[LazyLunatic]

As Wayne said, you'll have problems when removing vinyl if its had a sh!t paint job.

That's mega cheap Ash! I'm guessing its not cast vinyl... If it is, any good? I would use APA carbon vinyl if I wrapped anything, awesome stuff.

[Gash]

i know, i got it on auction, il get a photo of what iv wrapped up later today. the quality on it is really good though too!

[tdi_blu]

Think the main thing with this stuff is if your going to have it done pay the extra and get someone to do it who knows what there doing as if its applied by someone whos not to clever and hasnt done much with it looks awfull.My roof was original paint along with the tailgate which ended up being repainted I think what happened with mine is when I had roof bars it some how caused some slight laquer peel and when he applied the vinyl it just had a dam good grip of it and it went from there.Still in the end it pushed me to get the paint work sorted that needed doing my roofs now a lovely gloss black 

[GrandMstRamRod]

yeah halfords colour matched stuff can be pricey

+sh!t or they just carnt mix storm grey its to light

i would always stick with vw genuine sprays! but thats cause not sure were else to get it decently mixed

[tshirt2k]

Did you use a spray bottle with water and a little detergent to apply the vinyl?

[tshirt2k]

Just had a look on YouTube. Looks like it's not applied like that. But needs a few people.

[Jimmy Filth]

Did you use a spray bottle with water and a little detergent to apply the vinyl?

Don't need any water, I cleaned the roof and made sure it was dry, then with two people lightly laid the vinyl over, then started flattening it working from the middle.  It was really very easy, apart from the fact that I didn't heat and stretch it enough, which led to the creases. 

[LazyLunatic]

Did you use a spray bottle with water and a little detergent to apply the vinyl?

Don't need any water, I cleaned the roof and made sure it was dry, then with two people lightly laid the vinyl over, then started flattening it working from the middle.  It was really very easy, apart from the fact that I didn't heat and stretch it enough, which led to the creases. 

Yes, dry is he best way for something like that. Also plenty of excess around the edges really helps and a heat gun to help it into place. A decent application tool really helps, Gold 3M ftw.

[Jimmy Filth]

I found a hair dryer worked considerably better than the heatgun, with the heatgun it would focus intense heat into a smaller area, so that are would crinkle up a lot, whereas the hairdryer seemed to give a better heat over a bigger area, which helped in pulling it flat. 

This may have purely been to my inexperience and the fact that I was doing a single large, fairly flat panel...