Help with price for VW transporter roof wrap

[David McCarroll]

ALOT!!!

They are very work/time consuming. Taking into consideration using a 3m product we would be pricing this in the region of £650-700. I doubt we would get it but I’ve done 2 of these and they do eat up the time.

Hope this helps

[Martin Gray]

Thanks David. I was thinking about 4 hours works. But it always takes me longer than I think. It’s the post heating.

I always wondered how people price up wraps as then normally have a price set out for a small car, medium car, and large car. But with with vehicles being so different you could get one vehicle with flat panels and one with deep contours requiring in lays and a lot of post heating.

[Martin Gray]

Well I got the go ahead from the customer. And even tho I’ve got someone to give me a hand I’m thinking of maybe buying a wrap bar to help. Has anybody got any experience with one?

Martin

[Robert Lambie]

Roofs are a paint at the best of times never mind all those recesses.
as has been said, it will take much longer than you think. a roof like that can take longer than a full side.
You are constantly working leaning over and trying not to lean on the media or damage the van. lots of ways to do roofs, really a self preference and can change from vehicle to vehicle. But make your comfort paramount or you will start cutting corners, which leads to errors.
make sure your media stretch process is correct and the media you are using a good one. personally i would use Avery for that, purely down to ease of use and will deal with that sort of roof.

wrap bar… hmmm i can see how it would help some doing the likes of a bumper. but for me. no… i think its over engineering a small issue. how i can say "over engineer" what is technically a alloy brush shaft … 😆
joking aside, i am not really knocking it, im all for people trying to overcome problems like this, so hats off to them.
that said, a second set of hands for a few seconds will be a better help doing a roof with one of these bars. just my opinion of course.
remember, films like 3M and avery have self levitating adhesive systems so its not sticking till you put it there. a blessing when working on this sort of thing. plus, there is no need to strip the full backing paper. just unroll what you need while pinning it taught with magnets.

[Martin Gray]

Thanks for all your advice. Took me a full 9 hours to do today.

[David McCarroll]

Good work man, now if he picks to do the rest of you’ve done the hardest bit lol!