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Fitting chevrons to vehicles
Hi folks. I have to quote on fitting chapter 8 chevrons to a few vehicles, could someone guide me on roughly how long it should take to do a large van rear and a small van rear. Am I right in assuming the yellow and red stripes are fitted separately.
Cheers
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The kits supplied by William Smith come complete with the yellow and reflective red already combined in seperate panels. I would allow about two hours to fit. There is no trimming necessary and each section is already made up so it’s pretty quick.
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here’s a demo i did in 2006 and supplied to me by Smiths.
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Heck Rob 2006!!! there’s a very high possibility that I made that kit. I can see from the pic’s that they were hand edge sealed, and I spent many an hour doing that job.
Yes they still get supplied in that way if you require both red and yellow reflective BUT yellow reflective is way way over spec and yellow reflective should only be used on blue light vehicles and wide load escort vehicles.
The vast majority of kits we supply are provided in solid sections. Using 3 year florescent yellow base then with red diamond grade pre applied over the top. Therefore a high roof full rear kit will possibly only contain 10 sections and a small van 4 or 6.
A customer recently rang to tell me he’d timed fitting the rear of a Transit. It took him 44 mins……….he was a very happy chap as he’d set aside the whole morning 😀
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Fitted a smiths kit the other week, it went down so easily it surprised me, will definately use smiths for any future kits. Only bit that took any time was was where customer had put extra security lock and i had to cut by hand and sods law it landed in the red diamond grade.
Steve
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From memory we ended up doing around 500 of these vehicles for the customer.
only a handful were done with diamond grade though, but was done to their spec. The vans were for highway roadside assistance for their own fleet.
all others were done in a bright primrose vinyl with engineering grade reflective.not all the vehicles were the exact same, here is another OLD demo i did based on chevrons and on the same customer.
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Thanks for that guys and gal. Really helpful information. 😀
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