Okay so....I bought carbon fiber wrap off of ebay. I tried putting it on myself, but I was not successful! Can anyone help me out or may know someone who can install the carbon fiber for me??? Thanks!

 

First off, what are you trying to wrap?

 

I am trying to wrap the interior where all of the grey parts are up front...not the whole interior....do you know what i mean??!

 

I assume you mean simple trim pieces. If so, are you removing them from the car so you can work on them easily, or are they still in the car?

 

What he said...

Its pretty much near impossible to wrap something in CF if its not out of the car.

 

when you say carbon Fiber Wrap.. do you mean carbon fiber twill or matt or just the carbon fiber vinyl that has glue on the back ... cause if thats the case i have a how to on it cause i have it in my car

 

i dont live or actually work too far away. im sure i might kno someone one, but u gotta explain what u need done in detail and wat kinda materials u have so then i can see if they will do it.

 

its prolly the vinyl stuff. but you need to take it out to do it properly.

 

this is how mine came out..i'm not super pleased with it but it works i'll be painting it some time soon anyway

 

yes the trim pieces. i am not sure how to take the trim pieces out?? i want someone to do this for me because i know i will mess it up...LOL! i will definitely pay someone to do it.

the box says rvinyl and it has a sticky back. yeah thats exactly what parts i want to do to my car as per your picture below.

 

Tools you will need
-Vinyl (whatever color or style you want)
- razor
- screwdriver
- blow dryer


First remove the trim piece you want to cover use a screw driver to remove the clips holding it on, tug hard on in

Disconnect all the wiring and remove the buttons
Next cut out a piece of vinyl larger than the piece that you are covering

Place it loosely on top of the piece you are going to cover

Using a blow dryer shrink the vinyl around the piece. Keep moving the blow dryer as to not melt the vinyl

It will look like this.. Push out any air bubbles that may be under the vinyl. Also smooth it out over the surface by heating the piece up with the blow dryer

Now trim off any extra you may have remember to wrap it behind the back of the piece first so that all ends are covered.. Heat the ends up to stretch it over so it doesn’t bind up

Using a razor cut slits into the holes where the buttons were and using the blow dryer push the flaps inside

Install the buttons and heat the vinyl back up to shrink the vinyl around the edges of the buttons

Rein tall the trim piece, just push hard to get the clips back in..I pulled out the bottom trim piece so that it will fit better




Here is the finial product . If you see any more air bubbles use a pin and poke a small hole in the vinyl and push out the air.. Next I will be clear coating it. Also the radio trim pieces will take a long time took me about 45min to and hour wrapping and trimming all the buttons

I like it and that’s all that matters so please don’t bash I think it looks a lot better than my old CF trim kit that I bought online that only covered parts of the trim pieces..

thats should be the answer right there

-drew

 

c0baltic thank you sooo much!!!!!!!! your steps really helped me out a lot!!!!! i will show you the finished look when i am done with her!! i really appreciate it!!!!

 

no probem just PM me any questions

 

nice, i need to get pics of my dash, i covered it in real cf.

 

lol OMG

 

I think it looks pretty good. You should be proud of that work!

 

thanks alot.. took me some time to do i still have a little touch up to do i wanna clear coat it also .. i tired to put this in the"how to" section but it never got approved

-drew

 

Good write up, what are your gauges for.

 

at the moment i have air temp ( at the intake) and A/f.. i am waiting for an aeroforce for the 2.2 ... if anything i'll be putting in a volt gauge ..

 

love the carbon fiber wrap i was thinking bout doing that myself. i wonder why they wouldnt approve it for you in the how to section

 

i dunno i submitted it but never went up.. i never asked... i'll try it again .. see what happes

-drew

 

where'y you buy this stuff?

 

Man I tried doing that a few weeks ago and failed miserably. Didn't think about using the blow dryer to get it more managable, cause mine was just stiff and it would not wrap around it well enough. I lack patience as well. I still have roll of it I may have to give it a try again.

 

i got mine of E-bay.. like 2 years ago and just found it laying around my house and figured i'd put it to good use.. your best bet would be to search e-bay