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Door pull vinyl wrap, how difficult?

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#1 ·
Hi all, looked at a few threads regarding door pull refurbs as they do wear badly. Painting appears to be straight forward but I fancy wrapping them, thing is i,ve not wrapped anything before and wondered if anyone could offer any tips or advice, either on the actuall process or materials to use. Cheers
 
#3 ·
Patience and have plenty of spare/scrap material to have a play with.

If you plan to use an expensive carbon type material then get some cheap vinyl

or similar to have a play with rather than risk your good stuff.

Taking your time to get a bubble/wrinkle free finish.
 
#4 ·
Thanks for reply,s, will using a bit of heat be of any use as I would imagine it will be quite a job to get it into tight corners. Just looking for a simple matte black wrap to tidy up door pulls cos they let the interior down badly. Any good brands or stuff I should stay clear of?
 
#5 · (Edited by Moderator)
I've never seen anyone manage to wrap the door pulls properly. I've seen loads of bodge jobs or wraps with obvious joins.

What you can't do for obvious reasons is to wrap the door pull in one piece of vinyl as the vinyl can't to formed down to the bottom of the hand hold recess.

If we are talking black coloured door pulls I've always rubbed them down and spray painted them.

Re reading your initial post:
Steer clear of vinyl wrap. With both external and internal corners a door pull is a difficult thing to wrap and can't be done in one piece :)

Grab yourself some Simoniz tough paint in satin black. One tin will spray all the door pulls and leave a black surface that is tough and matches the rest of the car.
 
#7 ·
If you look at this pic of a door pull you can see the problem with wrapping them. Look at the hole when your hand goes. If you cut the vinyl along the centre of this hole there isn't enough material there to mould down three sides and to stretch enough to still cover the two internal corners you can see as you sit in the car. This means you need a second piece of vinyl to go into the recess and then cut the piece on the top to form a neat join inside of the recess.

Black vinyl won't show the join as much as carbon effect vinyl would, but the join will still show.

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#8 ·
Hi Raynkar, totaly in agreement with all your comments regarding wrapping. I have also read a previous link by yourself about the Simoniz paint and thats likely to be the road i,m going down in truth. Just fancied having a go with the vinyl but as you say i I doubt its possible to do it in one piece. Thanks for your help as usual.
 
#9 ·
The above pic is one I sprayed satin. It's quite shiny as it has interior cleaner on it. There is also a matt tough black.

If you do spray the door pulls a good tip is this:
Spray the door pull so the top section is at ninety degrees to the ground, and the long inner walls of the door pull are parallel to the ground. Make sure there is plenty of space behind the door pull as you spray it.
This allows the spray and overspray to exit through the holes in the bottom of the door pull recess. If you were to spray it on a bench the normal way up the spray won't want to go deep into the recess and will likely end up running as you try to get enough paint onto the plastic.

Obviously you don't have the door pull insert in place when you spray :)
 
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