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Default How to: 3M di-noc carbon vinyl wrapping
Nowadays there are tons of different fake carbon fibre products, but one of them is becoming more popular than the rest.

Most of them are simply grey/black checkered patterns printed as decals, but apparently not the one from 3M. It has a 3D texture that imitates carbon fibre weave by reflecting the light the same way. You'll notice the vinyl in my pictures looks pretty dark and not at all shiny. That's because I aimed my flash upwards and used a diffuser to distrubute the light evenly. In the last three pictures I aimed the flash directly at my wrapped parts and that's what they actually look like.

I've been thinking about covering a few of my interior parts in real carbon fibre, but I decided to go for vinyl for two different reasons. One reason is the hassle of epoxy glueing, clear coating and wet sanding the carbon weave. Another one is that with all these layers the carbon fibre becomes pretty thick.

However, the main reason is that I've pretty much fallen in love with the "dry carbon" look you get from the 3M vinyl.

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Anyway, I paid £20 for a 30x120cm piece from Portugal. Yesterday I decided to try it out.

This is basically what you need, carbon look vinyl and a sharp knife. You also need a hair dryer.
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Something to wrap could of course be useful
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As it turned out the width of this vinyl piece is ideal for these parts
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Remove the buttons and clean the surface you want to cover
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Attach the vinyl to the item and make sure there is enough film for all the edges and corners
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Use the hair dryer to soften the vinyl and wrap it around all the outer edges. The heat makes it soft and very easy to handle.
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Cut the vinyl where the holes are and let it follow the inner edges.
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Make sure there are no creases. If there are, just apply more heat and tighten the vinyl where needed.
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Here you can see the 3D texture
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This stuff is really good, been looking at it for the past few weeks, and looks like your doing a great job as always mate Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.
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as always Patrik, great photos.....

will be nice to hear how the yinyl covering acts on the bends around the switches... by the looks of it you have managed to get it round very very well.....!Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.
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The 3M stuff is supposed to be the best!

Have you tried to lacquer it to see if you can get it shiny so it looks more like genuine carbon fiber? Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.
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i prefer the roar non-shiney carbon look Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images. looks awesome one thing I don't get is how you don't get creases in it over edges and curves?
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The last time i had a play with some i used a hairdryer, to heat and shrink the vinyl round the bends/curved edges, softens it enough to form shapes Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.
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Looks good mate, been looking at some of that stuff.

But now got some stuff thats more a material sort of stuff were trying. looks good so far. (ive got 8m's of the stuff if anyones interested lol)
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That looks amazing, as above great work getting it to wrap right round with no creases or anything - fantastic stuff as always Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.
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Great work as always Patrik. Would look better with some clear coat I think ? (Soz but that is IMO Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.)
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