Personally I haven't had any concerns about the longevity or durability of the wraps, and that's living in a climate with 20 degree (F) winter temps through to 100 degree summer temps.

Here are a couple of pics of a vinyl wrap as applied to my last tarmac rally car in 2008:

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And here's the same car in 2012 when the wrap was about to be removed:

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Please note I'm not an installer or reseller of vinyl products so I can't speak beyond my own personal experience, but I've never had any issues with the quality of the wraps on my personal cars, even after a few years of use.

We keep the company cars wrapped for around 7 years before they're stripped and traded and again I haven't seen wear and tear on the vinyl that's too much different from the wear and tear you'd get on regular paintwork over the same period.

Nothing to do with labor cost. The guys in the industry here are businessman first, artist second. They won't charge you 4k for a wrap. Instead they'll do it for 1/4 of that price but make sure you come back each year to re-wrap - or tell a friend. Of course being inexpensive, the volume of cars they wrap per week is "immense". Fully booked, 18hrs per day, always 2~3 guys in the average 'shop'.

More work you'll say, yes, but at the end.... it pays off so much more than doing only a handful of expansive and detailed jobs. Materials gets so much more cheaper also as you use 4x times more.

Get it!?

They wrap the mirrors only half here, same for spoilers. They do remove badges but not the trims (rarely).

It is a "wrap" in all its sense. $500, half day in/out job. Huge huge huge business....

Just got a quote from a place in Connecticut that is supposed to be one of the best in the state and they said they would do my 986 for $3200. This would include 5 years of maintenance (regluing edges, fixing bubbles, etc).

I guess we should expect one day soon:

"I'll wrap any car for $499.95"
Earl Scheib

Yup, and the Flat Black paper goes for $399.95. I was being modest ;)

Zoom! Half-day, No bubbs

I would be surprised if they were using premium branded
 

materials if they are charging $500. Even purchasing in bulk, you do not get that much of a pricing break. I would love to see some photos of their work at the $500 price point to compare.

There you go brother

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RMB2000 (divide by 6 for the US$ exch = USD333.33

White, black, green whatever colour you want. That is for the SUV style wrap

Half-day, No bubbs lol

Can spend the nitye finding you a hundred other competitors... all the same price (about)

That is the advertisement techniques they use to get 1 (one) on 50 (fifty) cars wrapped. Huge huge huge business ;)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bing translation:

Product features:

1, it does not hurt the original paint, any change in body color.
2, saturated colours and distinctive texture, and paint touch-perfect match.
3, complete isolation, protecting the body.
4, block acid rain, UV, grease and other common corrosion damage, paint not aging.
5, sand scratches in the fight, blocking paint wear.
6, increase the intensity and texture paint.
7, convenient maintenance, reducing the number of car wash and wax.
8, while long original paint luster, ensure value.
9, opening with the exception at any time, without resin residues, paint restoration.
10, a foil, according to different color 3-5 benefit.

Second, the product performance:

Bright car color film is a high-performance stable polymeric Calendered soft vinyl with adhesive composition with excellent durability and stability for high performance vinyl products, first by the military industry, the automobile manufacturers as well as various Motorsport events are widely, won the trust and universal. After a lot of research and development to upgrade, bright full vehicle wrap vinyl synthetic properties to improve, showing 12 major impeccable advantages:

1, thin and tough: film thickness significantly reduced (100um before, now 66um), flexibility, greater ductility (heated stretch
Back to normal temperature setting does not shrink), available on the smaller arc performance ideal tortuosity, stick together more durable;
2, endurance: an excellent environment resistance, not yellow, and service life of up to 3 years;
3, durable crystal clear: honor to unique coating, add AR, enduring nature and integrated with the original car, totally cracked paint textures;
4, contact corrosion: be able to fend off most of the oil, greases, fuels, aliphatic solvents, weak acids and weak bases, weak salts, completely cut off from acid rain, sand
Bird droppings, oil and other sustained injuries;
5, abrasion resistance: strength and toughness of hyper-restoring force increased more than 10 times, close in tiny scratches, excellent against General scuffing, scratches and wear;
6, excellent optical filter: refraction, filter harmful rays, blocking glare, and UV damage to the paint, gloss and durability to protect original paint;
7, heat-resistant flame retardant: adaptation to temperature-40 ℃ to + 90 ℃, with inert thermal efficiency with good thermal insulation, fire retardant flame retardant;
8, the entire film is covered: No stitching, no seams, no marks, guarantee the car surface integrity;
9, powerful fit: there is no fold, no bubbles, no crack, not up;
10, maintenance convenient: reduce car wash wax work and costs;
11, without leaving any residue: an easy one, easily revealed, inter alia, not to hurt the paint, without leaving residue, achieve amazing results beyond imagination.
12, Super Green: no paint, body and nature produces no toxic side of pollution.

You can also can get your full dash and panels covered with alcantra (PINK of course) for $250. While at it ;)

wrap wrap wrap it is a 15 years old business already here ;) Different here mate, by volume, not by price. High prices and people don't come (simple)

Works!!! These shop owners drives Ferraris

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8 hours so far, work in progress.
let me know what you guys think!

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So far so good...be very careful when applying the vinyl
 

as the matte finishes can get "burnished" with scratches and rub marks from the squeegee. If you overheat it, it will destroy the matte finish as well...a heat gun set on low may be the safest thing to use. Good luck....will be interested to see how you do on the mirrors and side air vents.

I got my car covered with Vinyl Wrap from Gatorwraps | Vehicle & Car Wraps | Signs & Banners website. They have a lot of wraps, 3M Vinyl Wraps or Avery Denison Vinyl Wraps. You can request for a quote plus they have a lot of vinyl wraps with lots of colors to choose from. Professionals there will be able to address all your concerns plus you can request for a quote. They have branches and installers located in just about every large city.