Thoughts on Wrapping a Car instead of painting it

[tyoneal]

Hello:

I am planning for the outside colors and graphics of the Grand Sport Corvette I'm building and I wanted to bounce some questions/ideas off you all to get your thoughts on this.

Many of you have seen it already, but I will post one of the rendering pictures of the car so for those who haven't it hopefully will give you something to visualize.

Regarding coloring my car, by Painting it, wrapping it or both, since I am going to drive this car (with any luck at all) quite a bit, on and off the road and area tracks, I'm thinking of going ahead and wrapping the car. Here are the reasons why: (Pro's)

1) Faster

2) Less Expensive (2-3k)

3) Durable

4) Easy to repair if you bugger up on single piece.

5) Easier to change designs/colors if you wanted to.

6) Don't have to worry about matching paint and fixing paint

7) Good enough for Race Cars (Which most of our Cars are types of Race cars, unless the owner just doesn't drive them how they are built to be driven) become Good enough for these Cars.

8) From the people who have used them for quite a while, they mention that "IF you do indeed have a nice paint job on your car, a wrap will do wonders for keeping the shine and finish of the paint underneath in good shape".

Now for the Con's I have thought about so far.

1) Doesn't look as nice as a painted car? (From what I'm told the finish on a wrap if done correctly looks great up to about 3-5 feet away, then you can tell it is not paint.)

2) Hurts the value of the car? (Maybe, if you didn't take the time to put a $15k Paint job on it.) I don't know about this one.

3) Feel free to add anything else you can think of.

I hope some of you will consider taking the time to give this some thought. As a Auto-X, Pro-Touring, Track/Street car, I just haven't seen this question really come up before.

Thanks in advance,

Sincerely,

Ty O'Neal

I'm going to try and get some additional information on some other sites. whatever comes up that is interesting, I'll bring over here for you all to consider.

Thanks again.