Black roof?

Manders Mustang said:

I'm sure i spoke to a few guys who had factory black roof and it was actually a wrap? (one guy was adamant it was). I've not looked close enough to an OEM.

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Manders Mustang said:

I'm sure i spoke to a few guys who had factory black roof and it was actually a wrap? (one guy was adamant it was). I've not looked close enough to an OEM.

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Gibbo205 said:

All the ones I've seen were painted and the finish is spot on, as you'd expect paint to be.

A wrap is easy to spot.

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Manders Mustang said:

don't disagree, but i'd like to get up close and see. I'd always assumed it was painted but i somewhat want to "prove" it to myself :lol:. And yes, a wrap doesn't have a glass like finish like paint does which is the easy tell tale.

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Gibbo205 said:

Yeah the last meet we did, where we all met at that McDonalds in the morning, the guy with the grabber blue has a painted roof, Mac's is also a painted roof too I think and I remember looking real close at it, then my own, Enochs and yours and the difference is as you say, paint is glass like with no peel or other marks, whereas with all the wraps, up close you can tell they were a wrap. For me it kind of set of my OCD, but admittedly from a few feet away they are fine, the only time a wrap generally really stands out as a wrap is when the sun hits it at certain angles.

But a wrap is sub £100, Ford charge £500 and to have the roof professionally painted black would no doubt cost a few hundred for a factory quality job.

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articrandom said:

I just got another quote to wrap my roof for $400 and $220 to black out rear lights with tint :lol:

What do people smoke?

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Avdb said:

Is it the same with stripes - better to get them painted on from the factory?

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Manders Mustang said:

Factory stripes are a bit "marmite" they're clear vinyl with print over them in dots to make them faded. There's also aftermarket stripes usually about £250 ish which you can get any style.

Proper painted stripes, i'll hand you over to [MENTION=26917]sheps5.0[/MENTION] who (tmk) is the only guy with them in the UK, they're perfect, but fuck me did it cost him for said perfection!!!!

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sheps5.0 said:

Why thank you for the mention. My god it's no comparison. As I have no plans to sell this car I had to do it properly. The finish is just spectacular and up close it looks amazing if I do say so myself. A glass like finish with no edges at all where the colours meet. And yes they cost a small fortune but I'm so glad I did it.

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