Reasons to Use Carbon Fiber Wrap on Your Vehicle

January 12th, 2012 by admin No comments »

Carbon fiber wrap is the modern way to change the appearance of your vehicle. You can use it on cars, trucks, vans and motorcycles. It adds beauty and personality to your vehicle while providing a tough outer coating that protects your original paint from nicks, scrapes and chips that can occur from driving on the highway. Here are a few more excellent reasons to use carbon fiber vinyl on your vehicle.

It’s Affordable

Using carbon wrap to give your vehicle a new look is less expensive than a custom paint job. When done correctly, it looks just as professional as paint but the original color of the vehicle stays in tack. It’s difficult to tell the difference between vinyl wrap and paint because the finished look is so similar. Carbon fiber vinyl is also much cheaper than real carbon fiber and it’s much easier to work with, too

Easy Installation and Removal

If you’re handy with tools, installing fiber vinyl is easy to do and you won’t need any special equipment. If you’re involved in an accident and a section of the vehicle is damaged, you can cut out that portion of the wrap and repair the area much easier and cheaper than it would be to repair paint. The wrap is so easy to work with that matching up the vinyl is no problem at all.

Removing the wrap is also easy. If you decide to restore the vehicle back to its original state, you can do so simply by peeling off the vinyl. Installation or removal of the vinyl won’t damage the surface underneath, provided proper technique is used.

Self-Expression

Using wraps for self-expression is a great way to show off your personality. There are so many different graphics and designs available that being unique is easy. You can even layer the sheets of carbon fiber wrap by placing different colors on top of one another, until you create a one-of-a-kind look.

Variety

Being unique is easy when you use carbon fiber vinyl because there are a wide variety of options available. You can choose plain colors, specialty colors such as Pearl and Matt Black or most any type of design you can imagine. Finding a color or pattern that suits you perfectly, should be easy to do.

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One of the oldest reasons to use carbon fiber wrap is to advertise. Big companies have been doing this for years but anyone can take advantage of the benefits it has to offer. Do you own a small business? Advertising your business every time you ride through town, to the grocery store or to the gym can draw in a lot of customers.

One of the great things about using carbon fiber to advertise is that you can make changes when needed. If your phone number or company’s address changes, you can easily make this correction without a huge expense. Using carbon fiber wrap on your vehicle gives you more flexibility to express yourself and show off your unique personality.

Tinting Films – Which One Should You Choose?

January 12th, 2012 by admin No comments »

There are some fairly simple-to-understand benefits to motorists when it comes to window tinting, one of the most well-known of which would probably be heat dissipation. But with so many different varieties of tinting film available on the market, all made in a different way and with a different material and just as many different roles to play, which one should vehicle owners choose? Before that question can be answered, the driver needs to know a little more about the different tints, and the function of each one. While all tints primarily start with the tinting film which is made out of a 2-7 mil thickness of polyester, and each one is then bonded with at least 2 other film layers so that the correct barriers to different hazards (scratches, UV rays, etc), there are further processes in its manufacture which may or may not be followed, depending on the manufacturer.

Deposited Films – In this process, metal ingots such as aluminum or chrome will be held in a tank that the film will be drawn through. When the tanks pressure is reduced a vacuum is created in which the metal ingots and argon gas are heated. This process causes particles to be emitted from the metal which move to the surface of the film. This is a relatively cheap method of tinting manufacture, although there are only certain metals which can be used.

Metalized Tinting Films – Also known as sputtered films, the process for making this tint can be a little complex although it is still carried out in a vacuum. Unlike deposited films which are limited in the metals able to be used, sputtering is able to use in excess of 20 metals, giving results which can be much thinner and lighter as well as more versatile. The process is also more expensive which has a knock on effect in the price off the tinting film.

Dyed Tinting Films – This is probably one of the cheapest car window tinting options as it is also the most basic. Dyed film is layered, serving to reduce the visibility of onlookers as well as absorption of heat. Because this kind of film is applied to the window from the interior, some of the heat rejection will be stored within the window itself. This means that this type of film must not be used on thermal glass as heat can build up significantly between the different layers of the safety glass where no air can reach to cool it down.

Lu Stone is a home and vehicle cleaning consultant for a company specializing in auto window tinting. In her spare hours she enjoys spending time with her family and walking her dog.