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Pretty resistant, the stones bounce off the vinyl rather than chip. I post heat to 80ish degrees at which point the vinyl loses its memory. Its been out in super hot days and it looks the same as vinyl iv just put on. Your right, it is sort of satin. Its just the difference in products i guess. Avery matte black is different again. Comparing it to matte black paint its nothing alike. satin paint..nothing alike. which is pretty cool.. matt.

For the full writeup and all the pics go to: http://www.aus300zx.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1110329#post1110329 From this: To this: Matte black paint vs Matte black vinyl: cheers guys, matt :)

A few little things iv been doing over the last couple of days while waiting for the final solid panel, the front bar. The hatch trim area is a slow and laborious part. As its trim and not exterior i don't mind a join or two. I try to put the joins where the welds are but sometimes its unavoidable. I just really don't want to start cutting huge weird shapes out of my roll for the sake of some seams in the sills. Even though this is a small part it took a good hour or so. This is how i had left it while working through the other panels. I didnt want to get hung up on the trim. I like going back now and enjoying it and fixing up all the little things. I trimmed up the vinyl already on the car so it was a nice straight line then i added this bit. The i added another bit extending up to the weld spot and joined the pieces as best i could. Replacement roof panel: Camera and light are bad so i couldn't get a good shot of the hole i jabbed with my knife a while ago. A hole in the vinyl affects its integrity and id rather redo it for peace of mind and to do a better job. This panel was one of my first and if you look very very closely (not in these pics ofc)you could see some stretch marks from me being bad lol. Silvery goodness, the vinyl came off pretty easily and the paint looks amazing, like more amazing than when i put the vinyl on. I think because i cleaned it so well and then the vinyl being so adhered it may have pulled off some of the surface imperfections that possibly weren't cleaned off. I dunno, all i know is its really really shiny and clean :p Throw on a square. The first time i did this it took me 10 mins or something doing it inch by inch. This time i used the straight edge of the roll and lined it up with the top. Heat and pull it tight and laid it with one press :D Trimmed up the edges, then super heat and fold them under. Trim the sides so it doesn't look too messy before i get back to doing it. that's all for the last few days, hope you enjoyed it. Waiting on a few things to arrive that are unrelated to vinyl so there might be a post about that. Otherwise front bar on Monday. until next time.. matt.

Pic of the front bar fresh from the mold courtesy of ztoy. 1 week he says :D I don't have any pics of how it looked originally but you can see in this one that the trim is pretty close to the edge and you could see silver bits. I didn't even think to remove the lights when i was doing it, thought it would just tuck under nicely. Well no it doesn't :p Trimmed it off and placed new strips in there and put the center panel on. You can also see the upper edge of the rear bar and little bits of silver showing through. It completely ruins the effect and that bit will be getting redone when the new rear bar goes on. Looks a lot different. Speakers. An easy and well spent 20 mins with a few scrap pieces. Thats about it for this week. Should be getting my LED kit next week and hopefully front bar toward the end. Ill try to get some more tirmming done. I've been doing little bits of trimming here and there but nothing major. The under side of the hatch is the next bit part that ill get around to at some point. The the door sills, then the targa area. Also gonna redo a roof part on the passenger side where i jabbed it with a knife :o matt.

Yea we have a few v8 builds on the aus forums right now, VH45's. Also an ls1 which is pretty crazy.

http://www.aus300zx.com/forum/showthread.php?t=302879 My matte Black Zed. Its vinyl not paint :) [/url] Most current pics: highly recommend vinyl cost me 1/16th the price of a respray. have a look at the link though: http://www.aus300zx.com/forum/showthread.php?t=302879 you can see exactly how it works :)

Im on the gold coast, most southern part of Queensland :) cheers! They are 17" OZRacing, thats all i know about them, they came with the car and suited silver really nicley. They are going black though :D If you go into the link you can see how i did each panel. The width of the roll is 1230mm and length unlimited (well 23m in my case) so i could do every panel with one sheet. It takes about 1-6 hours per panel and you have to heat it up and lay it. Matte is one of the hardest vinyl to lay as every little imperfection shows through. not at all lol. took me about 4 hours and a few meters just to get to a point where is was AVERAGE at it. after about 50 hours i think im pretty good now. well im not sure about currency conversion right now but in $AUD its about 6000-8000 for a full respray here. it cost me 500 in vinyl and about 50 hours. thanks for all the kind words, its been a lot of fun and i love doing/seeing something a little different. have you guys got anything unique, like crazy widebodies haha? matt. :)

Hey guys, first time poster on here, currently residing on the east coast of Australia(im half brittish thought:D). Iv been vinyling my zed for the past 2 months in 3M matte black controltac vinyl. Shes a 1993 j-spec 2+0 NA Targa. Full build link here with over 250 pics: http://www.aus300zx.com/forum/showthread.php?t=302879 Or you can look at the money shots below :) Anyone on here done a full vinyl wrap? id be happy to check it out and have a chat. feel free to leave thoughts/queries/criticism/praise im down for it all. custom infill panel in matte black [/url] Most current pics: and finally the side skirts..so thats where im up to. its been around 2 months so far. Loving the thought of not having to spray new body parts (getting a front bar soon). anyway guys, cheers for viewing and have a good one :) matt.