BTCC fully wrapped Ford Focus ST 2016

[Chris Wilson]

little bit jealous. Always a big fan of the BTCC. It’s interesting to see some of the cars new liveries each year. I would say you nailed the best one this year with mr Jordan’s chrome.

[Simon Worrall]

So pretty!
:smiles:
Do you racing car specialists wrap with the lettering printed on the wrap? or do you apply it afterwards?
Simon.

[Jason-Price 2016]

I cant say we dont enjoy working in the motorsport arena! Long days (and nights!) but we do get the odd ‘perk’ 😉

Next years livery is shaping up to be quite ‘exciting’ too!

As for the logos and lettering, we tend to print and contour cut them, as sponsors etc can change race to race, and if there is a bit of damage we can swap out logos as opposed to a re wrap of the entire panel

J

[Robert Lambie]

Great work Jason, good to see what you have been up to… well done mate.

What Blue Chrome wrap did you use and how did you find working with it?

[Jason-Price 2016]

Cheers Rob

i did try and escape the motorsport industry. . . . . that didn’t quite work out too well for me! (this coming year is even more hectic)

We used Hexis for the chrome and to be fair it was absolutely fine to work with, not quite as supple as the Avery version but if you get enough heat into it it will go quite far. The only downside is it does bruise quite easily, so have to be a bit careful.

cheers
jason

[Robert Lambie]

I haven’t used the Hexis, but when i did a pricing exercise i found it to be about £50 per metre more expensive than the Avery.
I used the early versions of Avery silver chrome and that went milky / bruised very easily. Some months later i used Avery Red Chrome and that was far more forgiving and easier to use.
the problem with chrome films is you need much more heat on them because the film reflects the heat from its surface. so you need that bit more heat than what you would normally use. Fitting at room temperate with an IR heater covering much larger areas also helps. I know in the states they are using steam wands etc and it does "appear" to work well but its fraught with danger with air borne moisture, wet hands, gloves etc.

[Jason-Price 2016]

Steam wands! got to love the Americans, heat and moisture. . . . yup that will work out well for you!

That is odd about the costing for the Hexis, we found much cheaper to use than the Avery, and as it was going on a BTCC car the amount used was quite a lot (front and rear bumpers re wrapped nearly every meeting) We quoted up against another company to get the work and we came in quite a bit cheaper as we went with the Hexis and the other company used Avery as a base material. And we knew that quite a lot of the cost would be the Chrome.

I haven’t used the IR heaters, we are stripping out and refitting our fitting bay so will look into them, any recommendations?

cheers
jas

[Jon Marshall]

Pretty sure the Hexis is about £25/m cheaper than the Avery and it’s also 1520mm. Not used the new version they have but wasn’t keen on the earlier one which had almost no conformability.

[Robert Lambie]

when i priced them back when it was all just being launched.
Avery "48 inch wide" £90 metre
Hexis "1520mm wide" £140-£150 metre

I then read here on the boards some months later of same sort of price range.

[Jason-Price 2016]

quote Jon Marshall:

Pretty sure the Hexis is about £25/m cheaper than the Avery and it’s also 1520mm. Not used the new version they have but wasn’t keen on the earlier one which had almost no conformability.

Yup, that is about right for the price difference, the version we used was not too bad for conformability but not quite as good as the Avery. But the 1520m width was a must for us for getting the bonnet done in one hit.