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Reflective Vinyl for Motorway Recovery Van advice please?
Hi Everyone
Just got a job that requires the use of reflective vinyl for a Recovery and maintance van that will be stopping on motorways and other tricky road situations. He wants chevrons down the back and a strip going down the side.
Now we know there is a law for the type of vinyl and colour use but are unclear as to what and which type we can use. 😕
Hes asked if we can get two tones (dark & light) of blue reflective vinyl has anyone got any pointers to where we can get this without a huge price tag attached but NOT crap quality that fades.
We have never put chevrons on before and was also wondering if anyone has any techniques or tips that could help. (?)
Any help would be great!! 😀
Cheers, Chris
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3 Replies
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Chevrons on the rear of vans are usually yellow and red (or orange) as this gives a strong visual warning, not only when reflecting but also in daylight. Probably the easiest way to do a one off would be to get some 6″ strips and make up the chevrons one at a time, butting them to each other on the vehicle. If you don’t fancy cutting them to length on the van, you could make a cardboard template of the panels and use this as a jig to pre cut the chevrons. As for materials, you have a choice of engineering grade; which is the ‘regular’ type of reflective most people have experience of, or high conspicuity; which is the stuff you see on police cars etc. I think you need to know what your budget is because the high conspicuity material is thousands of pounds a roll and does have some restrictions on a non-emergency services vehicle but does give the maximum reflectivity.
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Thousands of pounds per roll mmmmm………… engineering grade it is then. We had already half decided that we would apply them in strips, so your second opinion has decided it for us.
Thanks v much for the advice much appreciated.
Aaron & Chris.
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Heres a couple i done recently
Both jobs were done with a combo of Oracal 751 and LG LL5000 Reflective.
As Big G says, the most economical way to fit the chevrons is individually.
Simply cut a triangle and fit it to the middle bottom of the panel and put on the strips one at a time using the backing that came off the previous strip as a spacer.
It`s really dead easy, and good fun 🙂
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