Maintaining Vinyl Wrap?

sleepn_sn95 · Apr 11, 2014

I just wrapped my roof in 3m gloss black vinyl and want to know how I should take care of it? There are some small scratches in it. Can those be waxed out?

Any help [MENTION=18340]Handz[/MENTION]?

CC'S95GT · Apr 11, 2014

My roof is vinyl too but it's CF textured.

If you have any left over, try wax in that first. Or ck with a window tinting place.

Handz · Apr 11, 2014

I will try an make this simple.

No, you can not remove scratches from the vinyl. The best think you can do it use a filler glaze like CG BLACKLIGHT to hide the scratches and improve gloss.

The sun will fade the vinyl very quickly. I recommend to apply a paint sealant like CG JetSeal to minimum and help prevent fading.

From my experience, vinyl wrap only last about 2 years or 3 years MAX before the sun starts eating it away where I live in Southern California. If you wanna keep you vinyl looking good, either park in the shade or use a car cover when park for long period. UV rays are the vinyl's worst enemy.

Hope that helped!!!

1997GT4.6 · Apr 11, 2014

^Interesting. Thanks for info. definitely something to think about.

sleepn_sn95 · Apr 11, 2014

Handz said:
I will try an make this simple.

No, you can not remove scratches from the vinyl. The best think you can do it use a filler glaze like CG BLACKLIGHT to hide the scratches and improve gloss.

The sun will fade the vinyl very quickly. I recommend to apply a paint sealant like CG JetSeal to minimum and help prevent fading.

From my experience, vinyl wrap only last about 2 years or 3 years MAX before the sun starts eating it away where I live in Southern California. If you wanna keep you vinyl looking good, either park in the shade or use a car cover when park for long period. UV rays are the vinyl's worst enemy.

Hope that helped!!!

Thank you, I will look into the jetseal

It cost me $50 and I installed it myself so I have no problem replacing it in a year or 2

The car is garaged and only sits outside for at most 5-6 hours at a time and some of that is shaded

ttocs · Apr 11, 2014

you put black glossy vinyl on top of a black car? Just curious paint problems or what? For maint I would just use some dash cleaner from time to time but hell worst case ya just yank it off and do it again.