Carbon Fibre wrapping Inside door handles! - attempting to anyway ;)

[TJP]

Carbon wrapping

Looks spot on mate, i had a go at doing my interior door handles and got p****d off with it after a while, i must admit i was using the cheap ebay stuff and found it hard work to work with. How long did it take you to do your stereo fascia??

 

[Lambie]

Mmm about three hours Takin my time well worth it though!

 

[TJP]

Was that with all the buttons etc still intact. I found the cheaper stuff didnt like to mould aroud the curves on the door handles, perhaps i needed more heat, but inwas pushed for time when i did it. Perhaps i need to sit down on a sunday and take a fair bit of time doing it.

 

[Lambie]

Well I first intended on taking the buttons out by realised what a mission that was! So I carefully cut around them! You wouldn't know though with enough heat it defines the buttons to show where they are to cut around them! The handles were tricky but again, heat and patience! couldn't fault the wrap!..

 

[TJP]

You've inspired me to try them again lol.
The badges ive done, took abit of time but they look spot on.

 

[Lambie]

Any pics?

 

[TJP]

Excuse the dirt lol

 

[Lambie]

Looks good mate!

 

[shnazzle]

I want to do this as well in gloss black. I started on it, and then realized how stupidly hard it is to remove the flippin panels! I want to do the radio panel and air conditioning panel (in the Leon). And then I will slowly move onto the dash...but that's a more major operation.

Any tips? What tools did you use? I used a razor blade last time, but should I get a scalpel with a fine point? Also, how did you make sure that the vinyl followed the holes around the buttons neatly, how do you know where to cut? :S

 

[Lambie]

It's hard to explain when you heat it up.. Run your nail gently down the line between the button and the fascia.. Making a crease Line.. Then run your blade down this line but closer to the buttons.. Trial and error with a smaller Piece over a small
Section of buttons or
Something first.. Because I did it out of one whole piece, you don't want to be messing the last few cuts up! Lol..
I used a scalpel or three.. Keep it as sharp as you can!!

 

[shnazzle]

I get it though WEll explained...

Any clues where to get the scalpels from (other than fleabay)?

 

[Lambie]

Urmm I don't actually know.. I nabbed mine from work haha.. Shouldn't be hard to get hold of though.. Hardware or crafts shop?? Let me know how you get on or if you need any interweb help!! Lol

 

[Lambie]

Some close ups

 

[shnazzle]

Brilliant! Cheers for the close-ups. I'll have a peek in a hardware shop. Hell maybe I'll strike lucky with Homebase...

 

[NAB_ARCK_86]

very very nice fella want to do mine haha

 

[tstrahonja]

how did u manage to wrap the inside of the handle?
is it all from 1 piece of vinyl? did u do it alone or someone helped u...
i tried doing it myself, but screwed up 2 pieces of vinyl so did it like this

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3162/adsc07381.jpg

 

[shaun21]

Loving the grab handles

 

[ibiza_chick_emz]

i've seen some right bodge jobs before but yours looks mint

 

[seat vince]

Currently doing a full 3m di-noc c424 that's brown. only at the strip stage atm really easy to do.

Essential you must use a heat gun

 

[Canners89]

I also began my door frame/pillars today window out tomorrow to do the backs!

any pics of the pillars completed as im interested in this myself, have a slight chip at the bottom of my pillar and think this is prob easier than having it re-painted