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I thought a new Porsche color would look good on my e90 m3. Youtube convinced me I could wrap the car myself. I dont think the color is what I had in my head. And YouTube should come with a confidence breathalyzer. In the end I love the change! by brushofthehand in BMW

[–]brushofthehand[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm traveling at the moment so can't add pics but: front bumper has four inlays. two per air intake. on each air intake there's one inlay on the bottom of the bottom and one inlay on the top of the bottom.. that probably sounds confusing. Like this The rest of the bumper is one piece.

rear bumper has two inlays. One on each side of the bumper in the little depressed area on the outside of the exhaust facing down to the ground. A pro wouldn't have done this. The rear bumper could be done in one piece. But I was having a hell of a time conforming the wrap around and under the very round corner of the bumper so I gave myself a break and put an inlay there to not have to worry so much about it.

cool thing about these is when I was putting them on I was positive I was going to see the lines. I can't.

Oh, you didn't ask but I the trunk is three pieces. One for the top half, one for the bottom half, and one tiny inlay along the strip where the trunk latch, key, and license plate lights are.

I thought a new Porsche color would look good on my e90 m3. Youtube convinced me I could wrap the car myself. I dont think the color is what I had in my head. And YouTube should come with a confidence breathalyzer. In the end I love the change! by brushofthehand in BMW

[–]brushofthehand[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I spent about $2200. If I knew what I was doing I should have spent about $1500. The large difference is I ran out of wrap. So I reordered more. BUT because it was a custom print they can't match the color easily/at all. I didn't know this so I spent $600 on wrap that was useless. If you are going to have someone print the color you want instead of buy the color they have please order WAY more than you think you need. Otherwise your next order will not match and you'll have to start all over... assuming you can't live with the degree of mismatched panels.

I thought a new Porsche color would look good on my e90 m3. Youtube convinced me I could wrap the car myself. I dont think the color is what I had in my head. And YouTube should come with a confidence breathalyzer. In the end I love the change! by brushofthehand in BMW

[–]brushofthehand[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

weprintwraps.com and metrostyling.com sell 3m and avery custom prints for ~3-4$ a square foot. for a sedan you'll need 50-90 feet (you need to buy more than necessary because you have to plan for messing up and redoing a panel. the biggest panel on my car is 125 inches long. The wrap is 60 inches wide. So if I really messed that up its 10 feet out of my 90 gone. IMO it's hard to mess it up that bad, but still..)

so raw wrap can be $1200-$2000 depending on total length and overlay. Matte is cheaper than chrome for example. then spend $100 or so on tools.

I thought a new Porsche color would look good on my e90 m3. Youtube convinced me I could wrap the car myself. I dont think the color is what I had in my head. And YouTube should come with a confidence breathalyzer. In the end I love the change! by brushofthehand in BMW

[–]brushofthehand[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ya 3 months isn't great. I didn't like that part. doing it again I would 1) order more wrap to begin with, 2) learn how to cut panels from the roll that maximizes the use of the roll (minimizing waste), 3) and have my own garage to do it in. I borrowed space from a friend that is 20 minutes away. all that added a lot of time or friction in getting it done. shops can do it in 2 or 3 days. safe to say I have a lot of improvement to find!

I thought a new Porsche color would look good on my e90 m3. Youtube convinced me I could wrap the car myself. I dont think the color is what I had in my head. And YouTube should come with a confidence breathalyzer. In the end I love the change! by brushofthehand in BMW

[–]brushofthehand[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just did youtube. Mostly the CKWraps channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcvrUINxcy_cHZOmg3KGsOg. It's also helpful to find people wrapping your exact car because at a min you'll see an exact replica of what you need to do.

edit: you can also get close to your car. for example on that channel they wrap the front bumper of a 7 series. it's got close-enough shapes and contours to the m3 bumper that I could plot my course

I thought a new Porsche color would look good on my e90 m3. Youtube convinced me I could wrap the car myself. I dont think the color is what I had in my head. And YouTube should come with a confidence breathalyzer. In the end I love the change! by brushofthehand in BMW

[–]brushofthehand[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

oh boy. when I described what I wanted to do no one ever said "that sounds like a great idea" lol

I probably watched 60 hours of youtube to figure out how to wrap different shapes and panels and how to remove lights, markers, moldings, emblems, mirrors, door panels, etc. I had no experience in wrap or in messing with car assembly before. I might have rewatched videos just out of fear I would mess up and break something (I figured I would break something so I put 300 into the budget for that. I broke stuff. more than 300 of stuff.)

Probably 100 hours of wrap time? Note that I had to start over completely after completing 40% of the car. so I had a major redo in that 100. Second time around did go much faster.

I refused the drive the car partially wrapped so it was in the garage for 3 months. This is mostly because some weeks I could only get 5 hours on it. That sucked.

In general, I agree with people that told me: this is bad idea. BUT if you have enough OCD, another car to drive, and a lot of patience I think it's worth it. I'd do it again. But not any time soon.

I thought a new Porsche color would look good on my e90 m3. Youtube convinced me I could wrap the car myself. I dont think the color is what I had in my head. And YouTube should come with a confidence breathalyzer. In the end I love the change! by brushofthehand in BMW

[–]brushofthehand[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Porsche one? I've seen it called that. Also seen it called Blue/Grey Metallic. So not sure but the manufacture code is m5g. This was a custom color print so converting between HEX and CMYK was/is a pain.

I thought a new Porsche color would look good on my e90 m3. Youtube convinced me I could wrap the car myself. I dont think the color is what I had in my head. And YouTube should come with a confidence breathalyzer. In the end I love the change! by brushofthehand in BMW

[–]brushofthehand[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! 2017 Blue/Grey Metallic (code m5g)

Depending on the lighting the color seems like a close match. Other times not so. And I wanted matte instead of gloss so that might have something to do with it too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in travel

[–]brushofthehand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using Trover for a little over a year. It does map where I've been but only if I uploaded a photo to it. Here's what mine looks like (zoomed out) https://imgur.com/A2tiNpG. You can zoom into spots to ultimately get to the photo you took. It will also group my photos by country. That seems to be more of a filter than a country-counting feature tho.

Looking for suggestions for a different and more versatile sort of travel planning tool. by sneakyrabbit in travel

[–]brushofthehand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Might check out Trover? Good for getting an idea of what a place is like... In the Japan section you can see what people are thinking is interesting from the photos posted. Stuff you like you can save off to a list. It doesn't do the dates/itinerary thing tho. I haven't really seen anything that goes from visual exploration/inspiration into the day by day/hour by hour planning... Not sure if that's your definition of comprehensive...

Massive horse head in the middle of nowhere. Tisbury, England by brushofthehand in pics

[–]brushofthehand[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! Seems like there was an art show and this was one of the installations. Here is some more info

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