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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patientzero" data-source="post: 1456053" data-attributes="member: 22964">I got a set of stock GT side skirts off of the same parts car I got the interior from.  I thought the Roush side skirts looked pretty out of place without the side exhaust to go with them.  Side exhaust wasn't a real option because of my full length subframe connectors, it's likely possible but not a route I wanted to pursue.[ATTACH=full]2623[/ATTACH]The problem is that the side skirts were black and needed painted to match the car.  The problem with that is that not only did they need paint but so did several other parts of the car.  The Laser Red was more like Laser Pink.  I'm just not the type of person to drop $5k on a paint job, especially on a car that see's track time and could be wadded up into a wall at any moment.I started looking at other options.  I'm not a fan of plastidip.  I don't have the facilities or knowledge to paint it myself.  The last real option was a vinyl wrap.  I started looking around and ended up getting a quote for $2900 to do the car.  Thanks but no thanks.  I watched about 6 Youtube videos and decided to give it a shot myself.  How hard can it be right?I started by ordering just a small piece to try it out and see how it looked.  I went with red because I thought it might help hide small imperfections since the car was already red.  This was my first try wrapping anything ever.[ATTACH=full]2627[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]2626[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]2625[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]2624[/ATTACH]I was incredibly impressed with how this looks.  Most of the wraps I had seen were weird matte or color changing so it never really hit my radar but this was awesome.  It honestly just looks like paint.  I decided to go ahead and do the whole car except that the red didn't really match the paint at all and I never like red to begin with.  I determined that if I was going to do all that work that I was going with a color I liked...</blockquote>