Car sales tempoary vinyl needed please?

[David Rogers]

[tongue in cheek mode] Look at your suppliers cheapest range – buy it. If YOU don’t have to remove it :lol1: [/tongue in cheek mode off]

No, seriously. Just your standard vinyl will do – the cost savings of buying in ‘special’ vinyl for short term is usually outweighed by the volume you’ll use & avoids accidently using rubbish for a proper job!

Personally I’d stay clear or use with caution ‘MGI’ vinyls – my god it’s &*&^% bad! I thought I’d try out a roll of two – still stuck (ignore pun) with nearly a full 1220 log of black & some yellow. Won’t weed – leaves behind residue even after a couple of hours – shocking stuff. V.L really dropped the ball on that one. Shame, as the ‘Jac’ stuff was good!

[Jon Stephens]

Cheers Mate 🙂

I’ll stick to the stuff I know !!

[Richard Urquhart]

i agree i use the stuff i have in stock and normally do a design for them with the colours i have in stock or the colour i have the most of !!
rich

[Nicola McIntosh]

hi 😀

would oracal 631 not do….its removable and cheap 😀

nik

[Jon Stephens]

I like the idea of using what I have most of …. profit is my friend 😀

[Richard Urquhart]

i do a few dealers some are so tight but others are ok
did this one the other day talked them in to having a purple vinyl matt that ive had years it was so cold the day i put it on and it was so brittle god knows how hard it will be to remove
ah the joy the cleaners must have

rich still got 30 meters left

[autosign]

This brings up the question of removability of vinyls. I know some vinyls use solvent adhesives so do these cause damage to the paintwork?

We do some Merc dealers and last year we removed some temporary pricing stuff we’d done on an A-Class and it pulled big swathes of lacquer off the paintwork. Later we done a B-Class and that had a similar problem.

In the case of the B-Class it was clearly a manufacturing fault in the paint as you could make thumbprints in it! But I’m not so sure with the A-Class.

It was Hexis EcoTac vinyl.

[David Rogers]

Never had a problem with solvent based damaging paintwork. The only time paint has become detached is after resprays / recent paint application as the paint hasn’t dried completely and is still giving out solvents (which may have reacted with the vinyl adhesives).

[autosign]

What about permanent acrylic adhesives ?

[David Rogers]

Actually, never had any problems with ANY vinyls damaging paint except in the circustances above.

Cheap, dear, calendared, cast, perm or removable.

[Neill Hague]

we supply lots of vinyl to the motor trade & use mactac 8900 series vinyl, easy to remove so keeps the valeters sort of happy when they remove it.

A few years ago we did have a problem when the vinyl was removed.
Valeter removed all the vinyl & everything looked fine, they came in to work the next day & it had been raining, you could see on the wet paintwork what sign writing had been on the car (£8995 on the road).it only happened when the car was wet. The side of the car had to re-painted in the end to resolve the problem.
Luckily our supplier sorted out the problem so we didn’t have to pay for a respray!!