How many sq ft is needed to do this? How much does your guy in Tampa charge for install? Thx!

 

About 60 x 40 to do all the pieces I did. I ordered 60 x60 and had plenty of material left over. I'll PM you my installers contact info.

 

looks great and really suits it.. is 60 x 60 enough for whole job?

 

You sure that is 60 by 60 sq ft and not 5 by 5 ft?

Also, what made you go with the Di Noc 3M Carbon Fiber material over the other materials? Seems the Di Noc is the priciest?

Thank you for the information and pictures. I am definitely doing this.

 

nice outcome! did you use a primer or glue on corners for the trim pieces?

 

60in by 60in is plenty to do the job.

 

Yes, 3M 94 Primer

 

Is this stuff really stretchy when u heat it up or something? I seems to conform very well to abstract shapes... How sticky is the adhesive?

 

Yes, it gets really stretchy when you heat it up, The adhesive is very sticky.

 

Question for you Diesel. On the switch plates, you seemed to get really far down into the recess under the window switches. Is that all one piece just stretched down in? I have seen others that weren't able to cover that much of the indent.

Oh, and one more thing... Did you remove the black coating? I have also read somewhere that it tends to lift. But I may be wrong since I believe that was talking about using the spray adhesive for fabric wrapping.

 

It's one piece down the middle and then on the sides I cut separate small pieces. I did not remove the black coating since I used 3M 94 primer to prevent lifting.

 

Wow. I am really impressed with how good this looks. The interior on my 2003 is starting to look its age (although not nearly as scratched up as yours), and I think this looks way better than the stock black plastic. Honestly, it looks better than most of the real carbon overlays people have installed. Thanks for the pics and info, I'll have to look into this some more.

Will

 

Fuggin siicckkkk..

 

Decided to do another piece on my car. This piece was EXTREMELY difficult due to the curves on this trim piece. Unfortunately it did not come out as perfect as I would have like to.

 

Still looks great. Thanks to you, I'm seriously considering doing this to parts of the interior that are plain plastic such as the door sill parts. How hard were those parts? I have no problem taking the door panel apart and what not.

 

The door consoles and what not were not that hard. I've learned today that putting constant heat from your blow dryer while applying the vinyl to the corners is much easier than putting heat for a few seconds. I think that is key when getting the corners and curves to come out looking good. I did the piece above twice since the first time I failed miserably on the corners by not applying enough heat to stretch the material on the curves and corners.

 

I don't know if I'd want to do the gauge cluster cover, but I definitely want to do the doors. Did I miss the link of your source for the material, or is it pretty easy to find? I could use google.

It's funny, but this morning I just mentioned doing this with a friend of mine.

 

Here's the link:
http://www.metrorestyling.com/?Click=2881

 

Thank you!

 

I tried the door switch panel yesterday with a blow dryer. it started out easy enough, but when I got to the switch holes, I had touched the adhesive side so much trying to stretch it that ther was none left. This is HARD to do and I was using a decent blowdryer. I gave up and tore it off.