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Poor Man's Shadowline Trim - EPIC FAIL
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09-25-2010, 03:42 PM | #1 |
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Poor Man's Shadowline Trim - EPIC FAIL
I want badly to get rid of my chrome trim, so after a lot of reading on the forum, I'd decided to try to cover the chrome with black vinyl. Ordered my gloss black vinyl from bmwshadowline.com - good service, timely delivery, even came with instructions.
Washed the car, prepped the chrome trim, and went to work. Applied the vinyl to the upper trim on the first side of the car. I won't go into the details, but the results look something like this. It wasn't like window tinting where you might have a tiny air bubble here or there. It looked like that along the entire length of the application. Like sh*t. I am not blaming anyone but my un-talented self! But I would love some feedback, some alternatives, some way to get the hell rid of this ridiculous chrome trim. As we speak, I've never been so close to willing to spend the dough on the real shadowline trim and swap out the chrome. - BR |
09-25-2010, 04:14 PM | #3 |
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wow, looks like you put it on dry bro, i believe yuo should have sprayed some lightly soaped water under there and used a small squeegee to press the water out....
ive never did trim on a car only stickers on windows and tints |
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09-25-2010, 04:54 PM | #4 |
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Similar thing happened to me. The gloss vinyl is harder to work with than matte. Some of the bubbles went away after a few days. Overall, I am disappointed as well. Painting the trim might be a better option.
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09-25-2010, 05:00 PM | #5 |
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I paid $150 to get mine custom paint gloss black......worth the headache!
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09-25-2010, 06:50 PM | #6 |
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soapy water...uh...nope, didn't do that. sh*t.
did you paint your trim while it was on the car? i've read that it's hard/impossible to take the chrome trim off without bending it, so i'm trying to avoid that. any idea what kind of paint? thanks guys. -br |
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09-25-2010, 10:15 PM | #8 |
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I used soapy water and a heat gun and it still turned out bad.
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09-26-2010, 01:05 AM | #10 |
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No idea... I'm looking for a place that will paint my trim. Maybe we can get some sort of group thing going and get a discount?
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09-26-2010, 12:52 PM | #12 |
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i had mine painted by a bodyshop. they painted it on the car, just masked it off
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09-27-2010, 07:53 PM | #14 |
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I was thinking about doing vinyl shadowline myself but knew I'd screw it up so went to a tint shop to get it done. Cost me $150, which is a pretty decent price I think. Other than a couple really really minor defects that you could only see if you were 3 inches away and looking for them, it came out perfect.
As much as I hate to spend money on a mod that is purely cosmetic and that other forums have somehow managed to do on their own, I was happy to pay for this one.
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10-06-2010, 11:29 PM | #15 |
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Couldn't we just mask off the trim with painters tape and newspaper, give the trim a light sanding, primer and paint? It doesn't look like a very difficult piece to spray paint matte or gloss black. Somebody must have tried this.
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But if you want to try it and post pics, it'd be great to see if success is possible. I guess worst case you have to take it to a paint shop to fix, so all you have to lose is some time and a can of paint. |
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Yah, sorry but that looks so bad.
I did mine with matte black and used my driver's license to smoothe it out.
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10-08-2010, 08:10 AM | #18 |
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I had a vinyl sign shop in Atlanta do mine for $100 bucks. It is isn't perfect, but that was partially my fault for not telling them to wrap the vinyl around the edges of the chrome trim. It still is 100x better than the chrome, and the mistakes arevprobably only noticeable to me. If you guys find a place that will paint it, I would much rather go that route, although I have heard the trims are fragile to take off
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i had mine painted looks great. your look like you painted it on with a brush. try try agian.
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10-09-2010, 12:36 AM | #22 |
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