How to wrap your BMW Exterior trim for less than $15

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Taking a quick break on the engine rebuild, we decide to take a few hours and show off how to wrap your trim. Chrome trim often times makes cars look very classy, but in our case we want the 2009 128i to look more sporty.
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Few Q:As I thought of after making the video.
1Q: Why did you use long thin strips instead of a big wide piece?
1A: Mostly to keep the cost down. A cheap big sheet can cost $20, if you were to mess up it could potentially mean buying another sheet. The other reason is we wanted to make sure the long top trim was one uninterrupted section.
2Q: Won't stretching the vinyl over the hofmeister kink cause issues later down the road?
2A: No, as long as your area is cleaned, prepped properly, and you wrap over the edge it will stay strong.
3Q: Why does your finished product look so bumpy?
3A: The "Finished" footage was taken before I went through and cleaned up all the little bubbles and spots. A little work with the heat gun and a day or so in the sun made the trim look factory smooth.
4Q: Did you buy air release vinyl? Should I look for air release?
4A: No, and yes if you can. I didn't actively look of air release because the surface we're wrapping is so small.
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@stephaniepadilla8840 4 жыл бұрын

Just a suggestion for anyone that is considering wrapping this, you'll want to start from the top, then work your way to the bottom of the trim, because as you can see in the video, dust falls straight onto the sticky part of vinyl, and it will create dirt bumps under the vinyl.

@TenzaMotorsports 4 жыл бұрын

No. You always wrap from small to big. If you wrap from big to small you’ll have wrinkles. If you’re worried about dust, do it in the garage like I did. My trim has no bubbles and no problems. As soon as it got some time in the sun it went glossy smooth. Just like its designed to. I’ve had several gigs with the local BMW dealership wrapping trim for customer cars. Just a suggestion for anyone considering wrapping their trim, follow the videos instructions for best results.

@StephaniePadilla 4 жыл бұрын

Tenza Motorsports Tenza Motorsports I have professionally wrapped cars with a company, and have done countless number of chrome deletes around the windows. You can even see all the white specks and flakes sticking to the vinyl in your own video at 2:11 when you were tucking the bottom of the vinyl in first. Im looking at it from a professional standpoint, I understand your audience is doing this at home, so maybe they won’t be concerned because it’s their personal car. Nobody is paying them for quality work.

@StephaniePadilla 4 жыл бұрын

Tenza Motorsports especially at 2:29 you can see all the white dust specks on the vinyl

@TenzaMotorsports 4 жыл бұрын

The white specks you see are from the gloves I'm wearing. It's not dust. I couldn't find my soft gloves I use for vinyl installs so I used glove liners. This won't be a problem for people doing this project at home if you don't wear the liners I was wearing. As far as actual dust. I haven't had any issues with the way I was wrapping. If you wrap from top to bottom you'll get wrinkles on the Hofmeister kink in the rear. Thats why I start at the smaller surface the move to the larger surface. The wrap only sits exposed for around 10 minutes.

@kristoferkelly9796 4 жыл бұрын

Good job bro

@TenzaMotorsports 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks👍🏻

@benegal9063 2 жыл бұрын

E46 330is have gloss black too

@The_TURK. 2 ай бұрын

Thank You so much 👌

@TenzaMotorsports 2 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@donrogers1000 3 жыл бұрын

How is the vinyl holding up? Is your car garage kept or outside? Almost everything I have found on the Oracal 651 shows it more as an arts and craft type of vinyl and does not hold up to the outdoors, rain, and washing. With it about half the price of 3M and others it makes me think maybe this is true. Also, I have not found any places that sell vinyl for auto's sell this.

@TenzaMotorsports 3 жыл бұрын

It’s interesting that you found information that makes it sound like it’s not be designed for outside. This says it’s outdoor vinyl, designed for outdoors. the trim vinyl is still on there today. it looks fantastic and spent almost this entire last year outside. I use the same vinyl for all of my custom stickers and I haven’t had anything crack or fall apart yet. I think my longest example is close to five years old.

@MeanBoy76 3 жыл бұрын

I tried this on my e92. The rear part of the top lower trim I can tuck the vinyl into the weather stripping but for the bottom part of the top trim by the door there’s no way to do this. I cut it right under but my vivid vinyl does not stick. Also the top part of the trim doesn’t stick. What am I doing wrong that it’s not sticking? Thanks!

@TenzaMotorsports 3 жыл бұрын

I've never worked with vivvid products before. A clean surface and proper vinyl instructions is all I can say.

@BoredAsUsual4675 3 жыл бұрын

Some wrap shops actually take the trim off. I had a place charge me 600 for a full chrome delete and they broke my trim off🤣🤣😳

@TenzaMotorsports 3 жыл бұрын

Ouch. Yea I did mine in few hours for $20

@BoredAsUsual4675 3 жыл бұрын

Tenza Motorsports exactly now since ive done a few customers myself i should have done that🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ learning experience i guess

@gomezchris276 3 жыл бұрын

How did you end up wrapping those sharp curves behind the quarter windows? Did you apply some heat to allow the vinyl to stretch?

@TenzaMotorsports 3 жыл бұрын

I wrap like 85% of those corners without heat. I will only add heat to relax the vinyl, not to stretch it.

@tedangelilli9716 6 ай бұрын

The Hoffmeister kink is where I’ve failed this twice now - it would be really helpful to see how it’s done.

@MikaelJulin 3 жыл бұрын

I allways remove the trim because I want the vinyl to stick behind it.

@PaulReinhard 3 жыл бұрын

The chrome looks so much better.

@TenzaMotorsports 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment

@PaulReinhard 3 жыл бұрын

@@TenzaMotorsports You probably don't want to hear that so I hope you're not offended. I have an E92 in titanium silver and the chrome on it is all screwed. Tomorrow I'm gonna try to polish it because I really like the way chrome looks on silver cars like yours. Yeah it's a pain in the ass to clean. If I had any other color BMW, I would go with black for sure. I just like the way the chrome looks on a silver BMW.

@TenzaMotorsports 3 жыл бұрын

All opinions are appreciated! I agree some colors work better with chrome. This metallic Champaign color I have just looked boring with the chrome. Plus I needed the video content lol.

@bee4472 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the chrome would look better till I saw a couple cars and changed my mind.

@AlexHernandez-vg4qw 5 жыл бұрын

No engine rebuild update this week.?

@TenzaMotorsports 5 жыл бұрын

Nope, but I’ll be posting the next video soon!

@petermoad2088 5 жыл бұрын

ummm. ok wait a second. was that a before and after of your race car? 00:49

@TenzaMotorsports 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is a picture of the car when I first bought it! Crazy transformation for sure.

@garrethariss4300 4 жыл бұрын

@@TenzaMotorsports you gunna explain??

@michaeljaymes8619 5 жыл бұрын

Do mine

@TenzaMotorsports 5 жыл бұрын

Always looking for extra work! I actually have had the local BMW dealership hit me up to wrap the trim of a brand new X2. Turned out pretty good. What model is your car?

@AlexHernandez-vg4qw 5 жыл бұрын

Hey do my 36 too😂