Stickers

[SpyderDuck]

So, I'm sitting in my office today, and some dude comes thru the front door to ask if we would part with some old crates we have out back. My office manager is talking with him. He takes packages to FedEx for his company often; we are located beside FedEx, so he has seen my Spyder out front several times, and mentions it. My office manager says "Yeah, that's Anita's.", and the guy is surprised that a woman rides it. Then he mentions the 'great paint job', where my office manager takes it upon herself to enlighten him...

"Oh, that's not paint; it's stickers."


Technically, she's right, but still... makes my graphics sound like something a 5-year-old did while picking his nose, not something that cost several hundred dollars and took me 4 painstaking hours to apply. :gaah:

 

[CMA Cowboy]

Unfortunately there are folks out there that the mouth goes into gear while the brain is in neutral. Pic looks great.

 

[Tierhog]

Agreed. "Ignoromas Extremus". A fair amount of cars use vinyl as well. Pretty much the industry standard.

1. Corvette
2. Camaro
3. Charger
4. Challenger
5. Mustang

1. Honda CBR
2. Kawasaki Ninja
3. Yamaha FZR


Sounds like your boss is a bit envious. Your spyder looks great !

 

[joet82]

Same thing happened to me when I had my wrap....'nice paintjob!' - "its not paint, its a vinyl wrap." - 'oh, really? Looks good!'

Then I scratched a panel on my right fender getting too close to the trailer of a semi, forgetting about the drop bumper behind the rear wheels. And its now painted.

 

[flamingobabe]

Lookin' Good!!!

 

[Bob Denman]

If anybody used the "S-word" around my vinyl, I'm prettty sure that the Missus would stomp them. :shocked: While applying it; she had to peel it back every time we saw a wrinkle forming... :gaah: I kind of stayed out of her way and held the knife so that she wouldn't stab me with it. :yikes:

Great results sometimes require great trials and tribulations to make them so very precious! :2thumbs:

 

[Grandpa Spyder]

That is why sometimes it is better to pay someone to do it for you.:banghead:

 

[Bob Denman]

Some of us are still paying for our bikes, and that leaves us a bit short of the necessary green to pay somebody to do the things tht we can do if we are so provoked... :shocked:

 

[SpyderDuck]

Flamingobabe - Oh dear God; you couldn't photoshop me out of that pic??? Eek. But Clyde is a handsome fellow, isn't he?

Bob - You are absolutely right; I could not have afforded the graphics if I paid for installation. As a matter of fact, one local company wouldn't even quote graphics unless they installed them. 2 men at $70.00 per hour EACH, with an estimated 4 hours work time. So I saved myself $560 by doing it myself, and probably have better graphics than they could have produced. I think I did a decent job; almost everybody asks where I had it done, commenting on how great it looks. My only air bubbles were on the trunk; that thing is a :cus: to apply those thick vinyl sheets to, but I'm the only one who knows they were there!

 

[Just Doo Me]

Flamingobabe - Oh dear God; you couldn't photoshop me out of that pic??? Eek. But Clyde is a handsome fellow, isn't he?

Bob - You are absolutely right; I could not have afforded the graphics if I paid for installation. As a matter of fact, one local company wouldn't even quote graphics unless they installed them. 2 men at $70.00 per hour EACH, with an estimated 4 hours work time. So I saved myself $560 by doing it myself, and probably have better graphics than they could have produced. I think I did a decent job; almost everybody asks where I had it done, commenting on how great it looks. My only air bubbles were on the trunk; that thing is a :cus: to apply those thick vinyl sheets to, but I'm the only one who knows they were there!

A tip on how to rid yourself of bubbles,take a sharp pin and prick the area, then squeegee the vinyl towards the pinprick pushing out any air trapped.

 

[ARtraveler]

Very nice graphics--regardless of how they were applied. :2thumbs: