I'm getting tired of seeing my Z in the garage for the winter. I decided to go ahead and buy some 3M Di-Noc wrap to try and see if I can make a few small changes to the interior. I thought it would be a good idea because it was pretty cheap and can always be removed.

I just wanted to know if you guys who have experience with this, could help me out on the best way to go about wrapping my interior pieces. As well as the necessary tools that will be needed to get the job done right. I just want to be as careful as possible not to damage anything when using the razor blade to cut off the excess material.

items i'm gathering to do the DIY
-Hairdryer/ Heat gun
-razor blade (any suggestions? )
-patience

Any help is appreciated,
Dan

 

Great thread idea! I know many folks are in the wall about using many of these wrap products diNoc/NeffyWrap material.

From what I've seen it's pretty straight forward...

If you google wraping a Ferrari on YouTube you'll see basically a short tutorial on how to wrap a car and the different angles of a car and how to go about wrapping.

 

^ plus 1....seems pretty straight forward. Lots of heat, stretching, and of course patience.

 

i just wrapped my phone in this stuff last night. its as straight forward as it seems. just be patient and use the hair dryer on all corners to stretch and keep the material down.

 

I'm not so sure its as straight forward as you may think. My car orig had 3m. After an incident that put my car in the shop my wrap on the front bumper was damaged. They had to replace it and although its not bad, its not nearly as well done as the orig job.

 

youtube will tell you all.
its not very sticky and is meant to return to its orignal shape.. if you dont use the primer 94 from 3m, your curved areas will lift in the heat of the sun in the summer.
its also very stiff, and returns to that after heated as well.

Id pratice on some small stuff first and waste a bit.. get the hang of how the material acts and then go on to bigger and better.

 

its pretty easy, but can get complicated depending on how many dips and curves are on whatever your wraping. I cant imaginge doing the center console waterfall, even tho its been done here.
but heres what I did in the front.

 

good job on the front, sir!
I did the Bpillar and it was good.
But the door handles and other stuff get too many wrinkles on the curves...
any else has the same problems?

 

Thanks for the responses. Wrapping on the outside seems easier than wrapping some parts on the interior.

I was thinking maybe wrapping that button for the center cubby hole (its always been pretty beat up). Once I get the wrap i'll post up how it turns out.

Sidenote: I saw this stuff at the Philadelphia auto show and one car had a CF wrapped hood and roof, and I hear this guy say "Yeah, its a carbon fiber hood!, you can lift it with your fingers!" I guess the di-noc did its job lol. But it did look nice though.

 

you should be very happy your arm is not hairy.. else the My350z community would have a field day.


that DiNoc looks good.

good job

 

I'm going to attempt the waterfall piece sometime in the next month hopefully. I got quiet a bit extra material incase I mess it up completely. We shall see how it turns out.

The piece is so scratched that it can't look any worse.

 

I think what i'm going to do is all the silver parts on the interior of my 06.

 

I recently finished my interior.

I HIGHLY recommend using the 3M primer to help adhesion around the edges.

 

I did this as well, but without the 3m primer. turned out ok, but i ended up hanging onto it until the sun got to it and then i traded it for a stock interior.

 

Got bored and did some pieces last night. Installed pics to follow whenever im not lazy

 

From the looks of that, seems like it went well

 

I'm thinking of doing the same on mine Dan. I scratched the shifter surround all to hell a couple years back and I'm sick of looking at it, so I'm thinking CF wrap is the way to go. Let me know how yours turns out....I might need some pointers on it.

 

Looks like it turned out great!

I'll definitely update this thread when I start to work on it and let you know how it goes. It's just so cold out I can't concentrate well in my garage. Hopefully it turns out well. I'll keep you posted.

 

I put a di noc roof overlay and decided the material is a lot more flexible at room temp compared to 50 deg F and a hair dryer is plenty to get the material to stretch.

 

Nicely done!