How much does it cost to get your car wrapped ?

ALL what you need to know about car wrapping prices in 2016…

When a paint job cost around $2000 to $10000, it’s quickly easy to understand why the car wrapping is the new trend in the car custom industry.

It also allow you to keep your original car paint and protect it during the time the vinyl wrap is on.

And the day you want to sell your car you just need to remove the wrap.

The wrap can last on your car for around 3 to 12 years with the best vinyl wrap quality in the exterior. There’s also tons of pretty nice colors that you would have spent big bucks to get with a paint job or even some are impossible to reproduce (silver chrome, gold etc…)

The price of your car wrapping will depend of two major things : firstable, reach a professional well experienced who’s knowing what he’s doing or secondly, the do it yourself method (DIY) to save a pretty good amount of money. Although it’s highly recommended to hire a pro to do it for you espacially if you have a nice car, I bet that you don’t want to trash your car !

If you go with the pro :

The work takes generaly between 1 to 5 days depending again of the difficulty.

The price can also rise if you have some imperfections on your car so the shop will have to fix your car first and they can add you quickly couple of hundreds or even thousand more.

The cost of a car wrapping will depend of the complexity of your vehicle, if it has difficult curves, gap and the size is huge there’s good chance you’ll have to put the price… and the area you live in…

The final cost may vary depending of your car but you can expect to spend between $1200 to $5000+

As an example for a 2005 Mustang expect to pay $2200 in Los Angeles, CA based prices.

For an SUV you’ll be closer to $3500+

In UK you can find shops doing it for around £600 to £3000+

If you DIY

DIY is a very effective way to save money and gain experience if you really love to work on cars but the wrapping job isn’t easy at all, professionals have gained years of experience, when you look on youtube it looks easy but don ‘t get twisted it’s definetely not ! they know what they’re doing and they are well recognized for that.

If you have a nice car and want your car to stay clean I would recommend to not doing it by yourself, you have probably a 98 % chance to fail the first time, but yeah ! that’s how you learn.

And it’s gonna be at least 40 to 50 hours of labor for a beginner.

But if you have an old car and you’re ready to try on it and spend a couple hundreds of dollars, then go for it !

The vinyle wrap will cost you around $100 to $2500 for the entire car.

But you can also choose to do only some parts if you willing to create a new style.

Depending of each part of the vehicle you want to vinyl wrap you’ll have to make your own measures

Here’s a little conversion length :

1 inches = 2.54cm = 25.4mm

1 foot = 12” inches = 30.48cm = 0.304m

1 Yard = 3 Feet = 36” inches = 91.44cm

1 Meter = 3.28 Feet = 39.47” inches = 100cm

Here some approximately measures so you can have an idea of how much you’ll have to spend:

Small size cars



USA = 50’ | Europe= 15m

examples of vehicle sizes:

Audi A4, BMW 3 series, Mitsubishi Lancer, Subaru Impreza, VW Golf & Beetle & Jetta, Hyundai Elantra, Nissan Sentra, Mercedes C-class…

Midsize cars



USA=60’ | Europe= 19m

examples of vehicles:

Chevrolet Camaro, Corvette, Ford Mustang, Ford Fusion, Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, VW Passat & CC, Nissan Maxima/Altima, BMW 5 series, Mercedes E-class, Hyundai Sonata…

Full-size cars; small SUVs, small trucks & small vans

USA= 65′ to 75’ | Europe = 20m to 23m

examples of vehicle sizes:

Audi A8, Ford Taurus, Chevrolet Impala, BMW 7 series, Mercedes limousines & S class, Hummer 3, 4Runner, FJ Cruiser…

Full-size SUVs, trucks & minivans

USA=75′ to 100’ | Europe = 23m to 30m

examples of vehicle sizes:

Suburban, Escalade, Land Rover, Porsche Cayenne, Hummer, H2, Voyager, Town & Country, Sienna, Routan…

Make sure you purchase at least one roll of wide and length big enough to cover the roof and the hood of your car.

If you’re really trying to do serious job and you want the best results I recommend to choose one of the top vinyl wrap brands which are :

3M/ VviVVid/ Avery:

The TOTAL depending of your size car, can go from around $120 (few material and cheapest products) to $1000+

Now if you’re just starting and wanting to find something not expensive here’s a selection of decent products :

Here are the tools that you’ll need, you can buy them to your local store or just order them from this list :

Most important products :

(wrap it in cloth so it doesn’t scratch the vinyl) Squeegees ($3,93)

(to get rid of dirt) Goo Gone ($4,79)

Optionnal products (recommended)

You have also a kit with all the important elements :

Car wrapping kit ($53,50) note : the heatgun isn’t included

For your first DIY you can check these link I’ve selected for you, they’ll give a lot of more details, and I give you also the link of very helpful videos.

If you have some to add leave your comment…

See ya guys,

Bobby

Sources that will help you :

DIY forums posts:

DIY videos :