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Old Jul 7, 2012 | 11:28 AM
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I forgot to take the before pictures of this car before wrapping the roof, but you guys can probably imagine what it looked like before/stock with the white roof. The owner of this alpine white BMW E60 5 series came by to my shop in Anaheim Hills / Orange County from around Los Angeles to have the roof wrapped in my gloss black vinyl material. Went with the gloss black to give it a clean factory look, similar to what the car would have looked like if it came with a panoramic roof. Also took some close up pictures around the sunroof, edges, rails, etc for you guys to see the details that goes into my installs.

















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Old Jul 8, 2012 | 05:36 AM
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Very very good job. The ass I took my car to, F ed it up so bad. He had NO idea what he was doing. I went ahead and painted it. I love it. One thing I will say though, the shark fin looks out of place, I'm surprised to see he had you leave it unwrapped.
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Old Jul 8, 2012 | 06:50 AM
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I love how look the roof on black!!!! Love it!!!
Nice job bro!!!
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Old Jul 8, 2012 | 08:01 AM
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The roof on the 5 series is hard to do, compared to other cars out there, so if you don't know what you're doing it, it is easy to mess it up.
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 08:50 AM
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Whats the cost to wrap a roof like this?
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 08:51 AM
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The price varies from installer to installer. Honestly, even just my area, it can range from $100 - $500 for the same job. My price won't correlate with what others are charging.
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 09:13 AM
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Looks awesome, +1 my roof got f'ed up too. The installer scratched the back half of the vinyl, and he did a terrible job around the sun roof. I'll probably just have it removed or painted. I have the fin wrapped too which wasn't done the best so I might actually remove it after seeing how this one looks.
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Old Jul 26, 2012 | 09:43 PM
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Thanks for the vinyl today Don!
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Old Jul 26, 2012 | 09:53 PM
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Looks great.
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Old Jul 27, 2012 | 09:03 AM
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Does look very good, but I'd also prefer to see the fin wrapped as well. I can't imagine it's easy, but the look would be worthwhile, if done right!
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