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YouTube wrap videos lead to poor wrap attempts by cowboys
now, i am all for people wanting to get involved in the world of vehicle wrapping its a satisfying if somewhat stressful and tiring job.
BUT, watching 4.13 of time lapse footage on you tube over and over again will NOT make you suddenly absorb the skills to wrap a car or anything else for that matter!
DONT DO IT!i have had to pick up the pieces several times this month, and then they get upset when i say it will cost you £xxx to sort it out, well, pull it all off then, go on a course or start at the bottom, watch and learn the trade, try and go in at the top and it is a long way to fall (had a very irate parent on the phone when ‘the boy’ had kinda wrapped his fiesta!)
sorry, rant over!
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All sorts of chancers getting in to wrapping now, it was bad enough with all the valeters and tinters getting on the bandwagon. What you cant learn on a wrap course is the trimming and finishing skills that you only learn from years of experience.
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Wise words indeed.
I am constantly amazed at some of the requests that pop up from time to time
e.g. "I have three vans to wrap next week, and as this is the first time I have done any wrapping can anyone advise me on the best way to do it?"
I suspect some of these people are signmakers this week, wrappers next week and plumbers or builders the week after 🙄
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We have a Landrover Defender coming in tomorrow to have wrap removed, all we know is was done in North Wales somewhere, not seen the vehicle as yet but the customer said he has taken a bit off one wing and there is mud still on the wing under the wrap!
Thankfully he has had a look at a couple of vehicles at our unit and is having it re-wrapped instead of sprayed.
Its that age old thing of customers needing to be educated, we regularly get undercut on pricing but a lot of the time we still get the job as we ensure the customer is confident in our abilities. We also refuse point blank to discount our quoted price which seems to work in our favour. There will always be Mr Cheaper Elsewhere as we call them, but who needs that kind of customer.
Will post a picture of the Landrover tomorrow if its as bad as it sounds.
Ian.
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I will hire that man in a van, looks like a really professional company who will really look after my posessions. :lol1:
Shocking!
Ian.
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Well the Land Rover turned up today and what a mess, wasnt wrapped though, someone had put satin black aerosol on as a primer and then brushed over with white household gloss. Advised him to go and get it steamed off with a high pressure steamer.
Good thing is hes coming back for a wrap in a week or so.
Ian.
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