The owner of this blue E92 M3 has had me do several of his cars in the past before as well. This time he brought me his car to have me lightly smoke/tint the tail lights on his car. Sorry for the before/during pictures, the lighting wasn't as good, but hopefully you can see how the tail lights look like in the after pictures. The owner of this car was around Newport Beach are and came out to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange county to have the tint work done. It's a fairly light shade, which gives it a very factory look.

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-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

 

I had some people ask me what a carbon fiber roof on a black car look like, so here are some pictures.

Here is a black BMW E90 335i that I vinyl wrapped the roof with the 3M di-noc carbon fiber material. The owner of this car was from around the LA area and drove out to me in Orange County to have the vinyl work done. I had also vinyl wrapped his window trim in matte black a while back as well. It's not very noticeable in the pictures, but the mirror caps were real carbon fiber, as a reference point for how the vinyl compares to real carbon.















-Don

don@wannaberacer.com

 

I did this Audi TT back in my trip to norcal in December. The owner of this car drove out to me in San Jose to have the grey portion of his rear diffuser and lower front bumper splitter in the 3M 1080 gloss carbon fiber. The pictures of the rear diffuser did not come out as good, since the car was facing towards the sun. However, in the pictures of the front splitter, you can really see the weave and pattern of the carbon fiber vinyl in the sunlight fairly well. These small changes to the car still changes the look of the car quite a bit and is nothing something that is noticeable right away, but still gives it a sportier look.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

For this red Ferrari 458 I plasti dipped the front, rear, and top engine lid emblems/badges. I also blacked out the amber portion on his front bumper with my gloss black vinyl. For such a simple change, it really changed the look of the car quite a bit. Since there were no other chrome pieces on the car, after blacking out those chrome badges, it gave the car a sportier and more aggressive look, while cleaning up overall look of the car as well. The owner of this car was local to me and brought his car out to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange County to have the plastic dip and vinyl work done.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

This is one of the cars that I did during my last trip up in norcal/bay area in March to do some vinyl wraps. The owner came out to me to have the vinyl work done that I was doing in San Mateo at the Fatlace warehouse. For this dark metallic green BMW E92 328i sedan, I wrapped the roof and chrome window trim of his car in my gloss black vinyl material. The gloss black roof is a subtle touch to this darker colored car. The chrome window trim on his car was fading and oxidizing, so the gloss black wrap really cleaned up the look of the car and hide the old faded chrome window trim pieces fairly well.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

This is a returning customer who had me previous lightly tint the tail lights on his E92 M3. This time he had me come back to do the tail lights on his Audi V10 R8 as well. The film that I use is a fairly light shade, which is dark enough to give it a nice noticeable change and also still maintain a factory/OEM look. The owner of this car was in Irvine/Orange County near where I was so I dropped by his house to do the tail lights for his car.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

Originally the owner of this silver/grey BMW F06 650i gran coupe sedan came by to have me lightly tint/smoke the tail lights of his car with my vinyl car wrap material. He had previously had his roof wrapped by another company. I asked him if he opted to leave the roof rails unwrapped or if the company who did his roof simply did not wrap it for him. He told me that he didn't even know it was an option that you could wrap the roof rails, since the other wrap company said it was not possible. So in addition to lightly tinting his tail lights, I also wrapped the two side roof rails in gloss black to match the rest of the roof. The owner of this car drove from Los Angeles out to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange county to have the vinyl car wrap work done.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

It’s been several months seen I have had a chance to post some pictures. Been extremely busy, so haven’t had a chance to post some of the work/cars that I have been doing. The owner of this white Lamborghini Hurrican brought his car by to black out the amber reflectors on the front and rear bumpers of the car. In addition to blacking those pieces out, I also plasti dipped the rear Lamborghini badge in matte black to basically get rid of the only chrome piece on the vehicle’s exterior. Overall, the work done was fairly simple, but these small changes still changed the look of the car up and gave everything a nice black and white color scheme. The owner of this car brought his car to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange County to have the vinyl and plasti dip work done.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

Starting to see more AMG S editions come in to get vinyl work done. For the owner of this particular white Mercedes Benz C63S, he brought his car by to have me vinyl wrap what little brushed aluminum / chrome that was still left on the car around the window trim, lower side skirts, front and rear lower bumper trim pieces. We went with gloss black for wrapping all of the chrome, to give it an OEM gloss finish and also match the other gloss black accents that were already on the car. The owner of this car brought his car to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange County to have the vinyl car wrap work done.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

This is a longer post than usual, but it’s because the owner of this white Audi B8 A4 sedan had me vinyl wrap the roof of his car in the 3M 1080 gloss carbon fiber material, lightly tint his tail lights, and had the lower diffuser portion of his rear bumper wrapped in the same 3M 1080 gloss carbon fiber material.

I included a in progress picture of the rear tail lights in one of the pictures with one side being tinted and the other side not tinted, to give you guys a better idea of how the differences are actually like side by side to each other.

It was a bit difficult to get a good picture of the lower rear bumper diffuser with the 1080 3M carbon fiber wrap, but I did what I could to capture the carbon fiber pattern in the material. This is a really nice subtle touch to the rear end of the car, to give it a slightly more aggressive look, while still having it blend in and flow with the rest of the car’s factory lines fairly well.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

For some reason, as each generation of Mercedes progresses, they seem to get more and more chrome. The owner of this car had me black out almost all of the chrome pieces in the car with my gloss black vinyl material. I vinyl wrapped the front lower bumper chrome trim, the chrome on the lower side skirts, the window trim, the rear lower bumper trim and also the trunk trim pieces all in gloss black. The owner of this car came out to me in Anaheim Hills / Orange County to have the vehicle wrap done. Not everything was blacked out on the car. Some chrome accents such as the grill, door handles and rear badges were left, which still provided a good amount of contrast with the car.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

Most of the cars that I work on are typically brand new cars, but i still do have older cars come in every now and then to have some vinyl work done. The owner of this white Lexus LS400 sedan had me lightly tint / smoke the tail lights of his car with my vinyl car wrap material. It is a fairly light shade/tint, so it tones the tail lights down just enough without overly making it look too dark and out of place. I think the shade went well with the darker colored wheels on the car. The owner of this car came out from Walnut / Los Angeles area to have me wrap his car in Anaheim Hills / Orange County.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

Most newer M3s come with carbon fiber roofs, but unfortunately for the E90 M3 sedans or the E92 M3s with sunroofs, they come with a standard body colored roof. The owner of this white BMW E90 M3 sedan had me vinyl wrap the top of his roof with my gloss black vinyl material. The gloss black roof really changed the look of this M3 completely. The gloss black vinyl roof car wrap also went well with the other already black accents on the car, such as the rear spoiler, front splitters, mirrors, etc. The owner of this car was in Newport Beach and came out to me in Anaheim Hills / Orange County to have the vinyl work done.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

This is quite different from my typical wraps that you see me posting. However, it is still a service that I offer that many probably do not know about. The owner of this older blue Mustang needed to have some cut graphics / decals installed on his lower rocker panel area. The car itself is not a actual GT500, from what I was told, but I don’t know too many details or anything about older Mustangs unfortunately. He brought his car to me in Anaheim Hills / Orange County from Cerritos to have me install the graphics on his car. So for those who have graphics or decals that need to be installed, feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

Surprisingly, this is becoming more of a common occurrence, even on fairly new cars (5-7 years old). I used to see this kind of issue more on Hondas and Acuras, but apparently a lot of black BMW E60 5 series have been showing up with similar issues in their paint. This black BMW E60 550 sedan had me wrap the roof of his car in my gloss black vinyl material to help cover up the oxidizing and fading factory paint. The gloss black wrap is a fairly close match to the gloss jet black finish of the BMW’s factory paint, making this a cheaper alternative to having to repaint the whole roof. The owner of this car came out to me in Anaheim Hills / Orange County from Oceanside / San Diego to have the vinyl wrap done on his roof.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

I think a lot of people believe that I only work on local cars, however, I actually have good amount of non-local or out of state customers as well who ship me parts to have wrapped. The most common items that I have people send to me to have wrapped are interior trim pieces.

For this particular non-local customer, they removed and shipped me their interior trim pieces to have me wrap it in the 3M Di noc matte carbon fiber vinyl material. The original finish was wood, which was a bit older and worn out, so the owner wanted to change up the look of his interior and clean it up at the same time. I only took pictures of the larger more complex pieces, just to show the level of detail that is involved in the wraps that I do.

















-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

Somewhat more recently I have begun offering plasti dip services for customers, in addition to my vinyl wrapping. So the owner of this white Lexus GS350 F Sport sedan came by to have me plasti dip his rear badges, wrap his front grill and middle portion of his bumper in gloss black, lightly tint his tail lights and also to lightly tint his front Lexus logo/emblem in the grill. Individually, they are smaller pieces than say having the roof wrapped, but even these small subtle changes all contributed to the overall look of the car.
























-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

I do not get to post as many installed interior car wraps mainly because actually most of my interior wraps are from non-local members who ship me their interior trim pieces to wrap.

However, in this case, the owner of this E90 328i sedan came by to have me take care of every part of the process of the interior wrap for their car. Every piece that is being wrapped is removed from the car and individually wrapped. I take special care and attention to the rounded corners and edges of every piece, to make sure the vinyl will hold up over time.

For the interior of this car, we went with the 3M gloss carbon fiber finish, to give it that factory BMW carbon fiber interior look that’s typically available as an option or more commonly seen on E90 and E92 M3s. The owner of this car came out to me in Anaheim Hills / Orange County from near Mission Viejo to have the vinyl car wrap done on the interior.

I tried to take some pictures of the interior indoors and outdoors to give a better perspective of how the material looks in different lighting. However, some of the pictures didn’t come out as well as I had hoped, but hopefully you guys are still able to see the details of the wrap.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

 

The owner of this car is actually coming back to have me tint his head lights lightly as well, but I figured I’d post pictures of what I already have of the car and post the other pictures later.

The film that I use for tinting or smoking the head / tail lights is a fairly light shade. It’s suppose to give a fairly OEM look and almost appear as if it was like that from the factory. I tinted his tail lights, lower rear bumper lights and also the small turn signal lights on his front fenders. It must have been bad timing with the sunlight, but it was fairly bright out that day and there was quite a bit of glare coming off of the tail lights.

Hopefully you guys are still able to get somewhat of an idea of how the slightly darker tinted lights look. The fender light pieces are not as noticeable in the pictures, cause they got washed out from the bright light. However, in person they are a lot more noticeable.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com