Dan, if you think this clogs up your for sale ad, I'll move it to something like modifications… Again, I think your guards are AWESOME and well crafted….
Mounted mine up! Real HAPPY with the guards themselves. So-so happy with my choice and quality of finish. I will most likely re-wrap them again having learned some lessons with this first pass...
1) I would have done a better job of cutting the vinyl. More conturing cuts on the backside. I basically cut a rectangle and wrapped from there cutting excess, but that worked only okay. I should have accounted for the corners better. What not contour cutting it did was "gather" the vinyl in the corners. This did not allow the vinyl to lay completely flat. So I think over time its going to collect dirt, the dirt is going to get under the wrap and peel.. Also washing may do the same thing. Pay note to left guard, on the bottom…. Also don't "overstretch" the vinyl on the backside. Make sure it lays flat. Otherwise it will lift and unless you use glue it will lift and the edge sealer won't do its job...
2) I would paint them first. Mainly for the purpose of making the backside color match. Meaning I'd spray the whole thing black then wrap the fronts only. And wouldn't bother with cutting a small piece to put on the backside. Again, otherwise at certain angles you can see the natural color of the fiberglass.
3) BE CAREFUL with the Edge Sealer!!!! I didn't now what to expect, I thought it would be basically invisible. Its not and its caustic to the vinyl to some degree. It kinda melts the vinyl a bit.. Now thats good for its intended purpose until you get it where you don't want it. My fault, I wasn't as careful as I should have been and got a couple drops on the front side finish. So up close it looks like a couple drops of clear lacquer got on it. I also accidentally touched the front of one of the pieces with the brush and tried to wipe it off. DON'T DO IT! I mentioned it was caustic? Well, trying to rub it off, just removes the faux CF finish….meaning it melts the CF relief an leaves a smudge of black vinyl.
So, as I mentioned I really am happy with the guards themselves, but would have done things a little different on the finish. The beauty is its just a wrap so I will probably do it when this current wrap peels…
You can see the smudge I speak of on the bottom left close to the brake rotor if you enlarge the photo.
