Anyone Have A Black Roof?

[infinitereality]

All these pictures makes me wish this stuff would come in sooner. It's due in Tuesday, so as soon as I'm off work I'm pulling the truck into my shop and start cleaning the roof so I can get this stuff laid down.

I was looking at my tail lights last night, with the be graphics I'm not sure if I can do the bedside around the tails unless I overlap the bed graphics which I don't think will look that great. But headlights are still a go.

 

[t_j]

Better pictures

 

[infinitereality]

Yep, you need to wrap your roof in black!

I forgot to say I ended up going with 3D carbon vinyl. It's 1/2 the cost of equal size satin black, which I can only guess is due to popularity. Not a real fan of carbon vinyl, but figured since on the roof, not too worried about it since it was cheap and I'll get more practice wrapping.

 

[abrown]

@Stealthf1 how much did it cost to get your tailgate wrapped?


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[infinitereality]

@DynoDynge You happen to have any info on the area by headlights or tail lights you did on your truck?

 

[renegadeagle]

Very good afternoon
Not to take off topic but what type of light bar assy is that on the BEAST

Best regards

 

[t_j]

That's a go rhino rack

 

[factive]

 

[infinitereality]

Got my vinyl in and went to work. First off, shouldn't have been drinking when I measured... I measured only the roof and didn't allow extra for the roll down to back window so right off the bat I was screwed. Figured I'd cut it at the body line and see how it looks.

Lessons learned:
#1 start front to back. I did back to front and worked myself into a corner (by antenna) with no way out. I got 90% of everything done, came out good till this corner. I tried to heat it and let cool to shrink it some, but I pulled too much on the vinyl through the process and there was no way out.

#2 Have at least 1 other person there to help. I was able to do it solo with the help of a yard stick, but wasn't easy. I did it in halves with removing the backing. With 2 people, could have easily laid it out and not have to pull up one side to get it to lay down.

#3 This vinyl, even though no name, was actually decent stuff. If you had air bubble in the middle trapped, you could work the squeegee in different directions and it'd go away. Also if you stretched it too much, you can use a heat gun and it'll shrink back to original size.

Oh well wasted $22, but also gained some valuable experience in vinyl. I think next round I'll Plasti-Dip since I already got the gun for it and sort of have the bug to do the whole truck grabber blue.

 

[infinitereality]

@t_j How many cans of dip did you use for your roof? How many coats did you end up with?