Bonnet and roof wrap on an estate

[Jon Marshall]

Probably a few hours. What sort of aerial is on the roof?

[Chris Wilson]

For me personally we don’t do a lot so when we do I charge what I feel my time is worth.
I always at least double up on media price to, as if you make a mistake and need to order more or use more, it’s lot of money gone.

[David Stevenson]

I’d say you’d be looking 2-3 hours. Bonnet should be sorted pretty quick. Roof takes a while due to aerial and possibly having to tuck the material behind the windscreen rubber. I always make a template of around the aerial using masking tape which I then precut on the bench before application. Be sure to cut the hole 3-4mm smaller all round than the size of the aerial though. We used to use a cheap material when we started as we thought we were saving money. We weren’t, all we were doing was saving the customer money while creating grief for ourselves when fitting. 99% of the time we use avery supreme or oracal 970ra when wrapping that type of thing. Just pass the extra expense to the customer. Be sure to put masking tape on the areas you don’t want the material sticking to like the windscreen etc.

[Martyn Heath]

Cheers guys, i did a couple of roof wraps last year. My first was a brand new white merc with gloss black wrap, it turned out mint but it was a slow methodical process because of the tight rubbers.

I used Avery swf and it was great. Also did my own car, cut around the arial on the vehicle and it hasnt shrunk back at all. Like you said you get what you pay for.

I booked 1.5 hrs on the roofs. Think i will do the same on the bonnet just to be safe.

:thumbsup:

[David Hammond]

quote David Stevenson:

I’d say you’d be looking 2-3 hours. Bonnet should be sorted pretty quick. Roof takes a while due to aerial and possibly having to tuck the material behind the windscreen rubber. I always make a template of around the aerial using masking tape which I then precut on the bench before application. Be sure to cut the hole 3-4mm smaller all round than the size of the aerial though. We used to use a cheap material when we started as we thought we were saving money. We weren’t, all we were doing was saving the customer money while creating grief for ourselves when fitting. 99% of the time we use avery supreme or oracal 970ra when wrapping that type of thing. Just pass the extra expense to the customer. Be sure to put masking tape on the areas you don’t want the material sticking to like the windscreen etc.

I tend to find wrapping around the edges of the bonnet time consuming and tedious, not my favourite of jobs.

TBH we don’t really do bonnet & roof wraps, there’s too many ‘wrappers’ locally who’ll do it with cheap material for pennies… we stick to commercial work, doing mainly partial wraps, the odd bonnet wrap, I find we can charge more when we’re doing a full van livery, than doing Ben’s corsa.

As a general rule, we charge 1/2 and full day rates, unless it’s really simple and charge by the hour.