3M 1080 for total cover-up

Nice job...BUT your saying the old wrap is still on the trailer? Im not saying anything is right or wrong its whichever you and the customer choose but wouldnt the right thing to do is peel the old one off first and just letter the trailer? Now potential buyers wont see the aluminum surface condition of the trailer? Did you try a section of the trailer to see how bad it really would have been? By the pictures looks like it woulda been pretty bad but just curious what it would have took to get it off.

 

I think it looks great, nice and clean as far as the old graphic being on it, it's been on for 10 years I don't think it's going anywhere. I would have done the same thing.

 

if the wrap underneath fails, it all fails..... should have educated the client properly and done the job properly

also, 3m is not the "only" opaque vinyl, oracal covers just as well

 

As long as the client was made aware of what you were doing, I don't see a problem.

 

how can you cover cut vinyl? Wouldn't the edges of the vinyl show through?

 

It sure does, but depending on what you are covering with it may not be too noticable. I won't name any names but I have seen some recent work by another member here that covered trailers that had cut vinyl with a printed wrap....looks good from a distance but when you get up close you can see everything that was there before. Tenting on the rivets before...looks even worse now. I bet they won't last as long as the company getting them done it expecting, but I know the company well enough to know that they went for the cheapest of the cheap options and they definitely got what they paid for.

I think of it the same way as painting...whats on top is only as good as what is underneath.

The pics the OP posted look good and the labor that would have been spent on removal, it may have been cheaper to trade that thing in on a new one and start fresh.

 

Couple of mistakes.
1. Wrapped over the old vinyl? Worse idea.. if your old bottom level fails.. your new level fails.

2. You're putting the panels on backwards. Now the wind can easily get under them, and left them since they're going the direction of which you drive....

overall for what it is, nice job.

 

I think you were looking at the photo wrong. He started at the rear of the trailer with the first panel, which is the correct way to overlap.

 

Ahh who cares about overlapping it properly nowadays anyway.

1. It's over an old wrap anyway - it's like wiping your arse after you've pulled your pants up
2. Post heating the seams well has always worked for me when I don't orient them the right direction. I'm no wrap mill like some of you gents, but I definitely hang enough wraps to have heard about failures "I should be having" by having one backwards seam on my last panel.

 

So thats a reason to not do an install correctly is because its over an old wrap anyway? It will only take 1 failure that cost you thousands to delete your post of overlapping incorrectly.

 

What is the brand of that work platform you are using in the photo?
Looks neat.


wayne k
guam usa

 

oops, i thought that was the front, you're right

^ Ignorant.

 

I am curious also. Are they fully height adjustable?

 

me too??

looks killer

 

Nope, I'm saying what's done is done. I wouldn't have wrapped over an old wrap to begin with, that's a bigger no-no to me than having a backwards seem.