Vinyl wrapped my shadowline trim, EASY!!
 

i had some extra vinyl laying around from when wrapped my roof. my shadowline was plastidiped (WHICH I WILL NEVER DO AGAIN!) but after months, it started to look cheap, and starting weathering away, after a lot of wasted time removing the plastidip that seem to have stuck itself on my trim i finally did what i should have done from the beginning. came out PERFECT, wasted no vinyl, every strand i cut i used, didnt have to redo anything.

few tricks for those wanting to do it. when applying the vinyl, use your fingernail (if its long enough), or credit card to kinda go over where the trim and rubber gasket meet, i know a lot of people have problem in this area, and i found a technique and made this easy. run your nail/credit card along between the trim and rubber a few times, be Patience, i ran it like 5 times, now i have a nice crease, it will help me run my blade smoothly when i make the cut, then get your brand new razor, and slowly run it along the crease you made to use as a guide, theirs a certain way i hold the blade and use my finger thats sliding along the trim to help guide it straight. you can use a little heat to help stretch it but i used very little. once cut use your credit card or nail to run it between the trim again to help "tuck" the vinyl between the two so you see no chrome.

took these photos before it got dark. tomorrow im going to try to finish the other side and post more photos, although i really want to use a gloss black now, but i just had matte laying around. any questions ill be glad to help. I have very little experience vinyl wrapping, i just bought some and started warping anything i found around the house to practice, once i got the hang of it, to finally do the shadow line, next move, practice on my bumper and then the whole car.

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storm trooper look :thumbsup:

Looks great!

Looks great!

I really need to re-do one or two pieces of my trim. After having it wrapped for almost a year now, the weather has caused it to shrink up around some of the edges.. If I re-wrap it, I am going to actually remove it and reinstall it this time.

Nice job.

Nice work!

nice

finally finished doing the top part. once again, it was very easy. same steps as mentioned before. didnt waste any material, cut some strips from letover vinyl and never had to recut another strip. didnt cut any rubber gaskets between the glass. cannot believe how easy this was the whole time. i would never have used plastidip the first time had i known it was this easy. people pay to have this done?

like i said earlier, i used matte black vinyl i had laying around i use for practice, i want to use gloss black next time, and ill see if i can have a buddy hold a camera so i can do a how-to youtube video, as i realized not too many people do a DIY for laying the vinyl in details.

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trim was NOT removed. done on car. for anything thinking they have to remove to get a clean wrap.

Same thing happened to me. Did the wrap while the trim is still on the car. Looked really clean and sweet. After about 3 months of a SoCal summer the wrap started to shrink and chrome started popping from the edges. Best to take the trim off, wrap around and under the edges, then put trim back on with the trim "resting" on the overlapping wrap under it. That way if the wrap shrinks, there will still be enough to cover without eventually revealing the chrome.
Eventually I just spent the $240 to get the OEM matte black trim.