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Vinyl wraps in Vancouver
City cars live a different life. Parallel parking, lane-way garages, underground parkades with concrete pillars a hand's width from the mirror — Vancouver paint gets hurt standing still far more often than it does moving.
From $1,000 whole car, any colourFrom $899 front end film2–3 days in the bay
Why Vancouver books wraps
The damage happens while it is parked
A car kept on the street in Mount Pleasant or the West End accumulates a very particular kind of wear: door edges, mirror caps, the top of the rear arch where a bike bar goes past. None of it is dramatic and all of it is visible, and none of it is the kind of thing a highway car ever gets.
Wrapping answers it two ways. A colour change puts a replaceable layer over every panel, so the next parkade pillar costs a panel of film instead of a respray. Clear film over the front end and the door edges does the same job while leaving the factory colour where it is. Which one you want usually comes down to whether you still like the colour.
- Any colour, reversibleOff again in a few years with the paint underneath untouched.
- Clear film over the parts that get hitDoor edges, mirror caps, the leading edge of the hood.
- Matte and satin over factory paintExpensive to repair in paint, replaceable in film.
- Courtesy car while yours is inFree on any job that keeps the car overnight.
Where we work
Around Vancouver
The bay is in Vancouver and the car comes to us. These are the parts of Vancouver we see most.
- Mount Pleasant
- Kitsilano
- East Vancouver
- Downtown
- Yaletown
- The West End
- Kerrisdale
- Marpole
- Dunbar
- Strathcona
Start here: Colour change wraps. Or the rest of what we do —
Vancouver questions
Asked here more than anywhere else
Can I keep the car on the street after it is wrapped?
Yes. Leave it a week before the first wash while the adhesive finishes curing, and after that it lives outside exactly like paint does — better, in fact, because UV hits the film instead of the clear coat.
Is a wrap or clear film better for parkade damage?
Clear film if you like your colour and want the impact points covered. A full wrap if you want a different car and a replaceable surface on every panel. Plenty of people do both: wrap the car, then run clear film across the leading edges.
Does street parking shorten a wrap's life?
Sun does, not parking. Five to seven years on cast vinyl parked outside; a garaged car goes longer. Bright reds and oranges move first, because that is how pigment works.
Tell us about the vehicle
A fixed price back by email, usually within the hour, with the film we would use and the warranty terms in the same message.
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