How to: 3M di-noc carbon vinyl wrapping
How to: 3M di-noc carbon vinyl wrapping
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.
Example:
![[Image: carbon1.jpg]](http://www.altheg.com/bmw/carbon1.jpg)
![[Image: carbon2.jpg]](http://www.altheg.com/bmw/carbon2.jpg)
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.
![[Image: dsc8166fix.jpg]](http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/6938/dsc8166fix.jpg)
Something to wrap could of course be useful
![[Image: dsc8171fix.jpg]](http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2551/dsc8171fix.jpg)
As it turned out the width of this vinyl piece is ideal for these parts
![[Image: dsc8172fix.jpg]](http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4444/dsc8172fix.jpg)
Remove the buttons and clean the surface you want to cover
![[Image: dsc8173fix.jpg]](http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/5246/dsc8173fix.jpg)
![[Image: dsc8175fix.jpg]](http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2337/dsc8175fix.jpg)
![[Image: dsc8177fix.jpg]](http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/1048/dsc8177fix.jpg)
Attach the vinyl to the item and make sure there is enough film for all the edges and corners
![[Image: dsc8179fix.jpg]](http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2388/dsc8179fix.jpg)
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.
![[Image: dsc8181fix.jpg]](http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4936/dsc8181fix.jpg)
Cut the vinyl where the holes are and let it follow the inner edges.
![[Image: dsc8184fix.jpg]](http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/222/dsc8184fix.jpg)
![[Image: dsc8188fix.jpg]](http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1356/dsc8188fix.jpg)
Make sure there are no creases. If there are, just apply more heat and tighten the vinyl where needed.
![[Image: dsc8189fix.jpg]](http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2079/dsc8189fix.jpg)
Reassemble the unit and you're done
![[Image: dsc8199fix.jpg]](http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/1662/dsc8199fix.jpg)
![[Image: dsc8207fix.jpg]](http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4584/dsc8207fix.jpg)
Here you can see the 3D texture
![[Image: dsc8214fix.jpg]](http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/796/dsc8214fix.jpg)
P.Lindblom
28-12-2016, 03:29 PM #1Nowadays 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.
Example:
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.
Something to wrap could of course be useful
As it turned out the width of this vinyl piece is ideal for these parts
Remove the buttons and clean the surface you want to cover
Attach the vinyl to the item and make sure there is enough film for all the edges and corners
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.
Cut the vinyl where the holes are and let it follow the inner edges.
Make sure there are no creases. If there are, just apply more heat and tighten the vinyl where needed.
Reassemble the unit and you're done
Here you can see the 3D texture
![[Image: clubbanner.gif]](http://www.ranatech.co.uk/evo/clubbanner.gif)
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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Dan_Turism0
29-12-2016, 12:46 AM #5i prefer the roar non-shiney carbon look 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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Not fussed myself but great job mate:biggrin:
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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)
![[Image: LexuS-Copy.jpg]](http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/Sparkystav/LexuS-Copy.jpg)
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Sparkystav
29-12-2016, 01:33 AM #8Looks 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)
Read my thread here: The Evolution of my Turbo Lexus from NA-Supercharged-Twin Turbo-Massive Single
Please leave your comments.
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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
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Before I started liking the dry carbon look I thought about clear coating the vinyl, but as I mentioned I really like the way it looks. Also, I'm not sure what the result would be if you apply a layer of clear coat, as the texture of the vinyl isn't smooth.
My plan is to wrap all the brownish/bronze colored parts of the instrument panel. First of all I'll just make sure my newly wrapped parts don't look silly when I put them back in the car :tongue_smilie:
P.Lindblom
29-12-2016, 06:41 AM #10I've added a few answers to the first post
Before I started liking the dry carbon look I thought about clear coating the vinyl, but as I mentioned I really like the way it looks. Also, I'm not sure what the result would be if you apply a layer of clear coat, as the texture of the vinyl isn't smooth.
My plan is to wrap all the brownish/bronze colored parts of the instrument panel. First of all I'll just make sure my newly wrapped parts don't look silly when I put them back in the car :tongue_smilie:
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