- Hey guys, Shawn with Custom Offsets,
and I got a video for ya.
It is Paint is Not Dead,
and to totally contradict everything
I've told you previously,
you may wanna go watch our video
on Paint is Dead that we did about a year ago.
The whole concept is the argument between
vinyl wrapping, vinyl wrapping,
and completely repainting something.
Back in the previous video, I had explained
some of the benefits of wrapping,
and I was way biased on wrapping.
At that time, I had wrapped about
three or four things that spring,
so I was really addicted to having everything wrapped.
Now I ran into a situation where
I had the choice to pick between the two
and I went with the full, complete paint job,
and when we were sitting back, talking about that,
we thought, "Would it be fun to bring back this video
and walk through why did I choose to
paint this vehicle rather than do another wrap on it."
So we're gonna dive into that.
I'm gonna kinda talk about some of the risk
and benefits of wrap versus paint,
or, in this situation, paint versus wrap.
I'm gonna talk about some of the cost comparison, which...
Go back and watch the other video
if you want all the details.
I'm gonna heavily push toward the paint side in this version
and you'll see the contradiction,
and I'm right in both videos, that's the best news.
And I'm also gonna talk about some of the longevity,
and ultimately why I chose to go this direction
versus that direction this round.
So, let's go.
(epic synth music)
Kay, so the first point I wanna make
is timeframe, timeframe, timeframe.
How long are you looking to have
the vehicle color change stick with that vehicle?
When I was wrapping stuff for my bike,
it sits inside for 90 percent of its life,
and it's probably not gonna see weather
because I don't drive this in the snow or anything.
For Charlie's car, which we brought you last time
and you'll see it's been through many iterations,
many different color changes,
he pretty much changes the color of the vehicle every spring
so it makes 1,000 percent sense
that he wraps a vehicle like this
because you can basically change an entire graphic
of the entire vehicle, you can change
the entire color of the vehicle,
and you can do that every single spring
and not spend an absolute fortune doing so.
With the Cadillac CTS V that we just recently did,
I know that I wanna drive this thing in the winter.
I know that I wanna leave it this color forever.
I have no desire to pull it completely apart
and change it every spring.
This is gonna be a daily driver,
so I wasn't looking for something
that I can change the color all the time.
So pretty much for the same money,
probably because I got carried away
and did a satin color and I did the gloss accents
and everything like that, I paid a little bit more,
but generally for the same price,
I was able to paint the car instead of doing a wrap,
and the reason I did that is the timeframe
that it will basically stay at.
This car will...
This paint job will last as long as the car does,
within reason, obviously.
Sometimes paint can out-fade or fall apart
or rust issues can get there before the performance problems
or the engine problems start happening,
but for the most part, this doesn't have a life span on it.
A typical wrap, you're talkin' three to five years.
If you're runnin' it daily, you're gonna start seeing
different issues with peeling where you tried to tuck it,
or you'll run into different issues where the bottom,
where it's startin' to get into friction,
especially with snow and whatnot,
is gonna try to start pulling back,
because any time you start to get sand
or dirt underneath that wrap, it will just start peeling.
I had also wrapped my side-by-side,
I'd done the doors on it,
and it lasted one hour of trail riding,
and I ended up peeling both doors off
because it just didn't work.
The minute the sand got underneath, it was game over.
So if you're trying to daily drive a wrapped vehicle,
I think you're startin' with a three-year lifespan,
and you're gonna be fixing issues
where it's peeling up and whatnot,
because I believe...
And again, a lot of this is my opinion,
a wrap is made for a three to five year
temporary vehicle that's primarily used for show use,
and that's why I still argue that
doing it on the bike was the right move
because the bike doesn't see a lot of miles...
It sees almost no miles,
but I just want it to look really good.
I want the ability to change the color if I so choose,
and ultimately, the cost to do a bike was significantly less
to wrap it versus to go back and paint it,
which involves taking everything apart.
So if you're going out,
and you're gonna spend 90,000 dollars
on one of the SCA or Southern Comfort automotive trucks,
you're gonna want to not worry about
re-wrapping your truck every spring,
because you're spending a lot of money.
So I think in that scenario, just like with the Cadillac,
it makes sense to go paint, and that's what SCO has done,
because that paint's gonna have the protection
that's gonna actually hold out the elements.
It's gonna be designed for daily driving
year-round in any conditions.
So that's why they went with paint
rather than going with a wrap,
which was then a more temporary solution,
and probably led them into quite a few warranty issues
if they tried to wrap them.
So let's talk about cost.
I know in the first video, Paint is Dead,
I talked a lot about, ragged a lot about
the inexpensive cost, maybe around
two to three thousand dollars to wrap the car,
versus three to five thousand dollars
you're gonna pay to paint a car.
And the reason that I was able to easily say,
"This is less expensive," is because
it was short-term thinking.
It was thinking, "you're probably
gonna wanna change it a lot."
It's just a matter of how much money
comes out of your wallet right now.
This one's twice the price of this one.
But that's not really true if you do actual math.
Because this one's three to five years,
and this one's five to 10 years,
now let's take the cost and divide it by its longevity.
So if you take the cost of this one of 2,000 dollars
and you divide it over the five years
maximum it's probably gonna last,
you're talkin' about 400 dollars a year.
If you take this car at 3,500 bucks
and it's lasting 10 years,
you're talkin' 350 dollars a year.
So ultimately, when you start painting,
a lot of times, because of the years,
the amount of time it's gonna last,
you're gonna get the cost benefit
out of the paint side of it.
Now you could do that math totally different
and say it's only 1,500 bucks,
but are you then changing every single spring?
Now you're talkin' 1,500 bucks a year,
because you're basically throwing that money away
every single time that you change the last color.
If you take a vehicle like this
and say, "Yeah, but it's 5,000 bucks,
and you know I'm only keepin' the car for five years,"
that's 1,000 bucks a year.
So you can constantly do the math,
and ultimately, what you're asking yourself is,
"how long am I gonna keep it this color,
and what is the cost to do it?"
Because once you do that math,
you can basically figure out the cost per year,
and then justify yourself which one is more expensive,
because depending on how you do that math,
you could argue both points,
and that's what I did in the first video.
But in this video, I wanna show you
that this car is gonna stay this color
so this was a cheaper option per year
to have the car completely painted.
So one of the things I learned with wrapping
a whole bunch of vehicles now,
or having them wrapped, I don't wrap them.
I've tried that and I failed really bad
and had to give up.
When you go and try and start tucking a sticker
inside of the parts that you can't take off,
you will always have that edge,
that as it gets humid, cold, humid, cold,
dry, humid, dry, cold, hot, they'll flip up.
And basically, anything I have lapped,
ultimately, those edges start to peel up,
and that drives me bonkers,
because it exposes inside of those cracks,
it'll actually expose the vehicle color
and you start to see that.
When you paint a vehicle, you only are taping once,
and you're taping deeper inside of
some of those areas that you can't pull apart
and then you're spraying the paint inside of there.
And because that paint goes deep inside it
and actually gets inside of that crevice,
there is no way for that color
to re-expose itself over time.
So to me, the peeling of wraps
has been one of the reasons that
my OCD just can't quite handle that,
and why I'm starting to lean towards paint
if I'm gonna keep it on there for more than three years.
The other one that I noticed...
I can't remember at all, so I'm gonna go to my notes
and see what the (omitted) it says.
(rewinding noise)
"So, what you're saying, Shawn,
is that if I'm gonna do a vehicle color change
every two years or three years,
I should always wrap the vehicle?"
Well, sort of, but not really.
When I wrapped the Lamborghini Gallardo,
my intention was, I could just
take it off in two, three years,
or when I go to trade in the vehicle.
When I went to trade in the vehicle,
and I said, hey, you should take wrapped,
and they said, "Absolutely not."
They actually refused the car in the current condition
and demanded that I remove the wrap,
and I said, "Why is that?"
They said, "Because we have a feeling
that when you pull that wrap off,
it's gonna take some of the paints off,
it's definitely gonna take some of the clear coat off,
and there could possibly be cut marks
from when they wrapped the vehicle and they were trimming."
Well, the good news is, the folks I had wrap the vehicle
did a really good job, so I didn't have
the cut mark in the clear coat
like some people have seen in the past.
However, when I went to remove the wrap,
it pulled all of the clear coat off one of the door handles
and it took some of the paint and clear coat
off of an inside...
Inside the trunk area.
Now lucky for me, Lamborghini Dallas is super awesome,
they knew they could they could easily fix it
and they didn't ding me for it
or cause any trouble when went to trade in the car.
But I can tell you that when we got the new car,
there is no way I am putting a wrap
on an expensive car like that,
only because I have the fear
that it could remove some of that paint.
Now, there's an argument out there
that that clearly had to have been repainted
on the door handle or inside that engine compartment,
that's the reason that only those areas failed.
But I can tell you that you likely have no clue
if your car, unless you buy it brand new,
and even then, they can do body work,
touch-up body work, before it goes out to the lot,
but you have no clue if there's a small
patch area or fixed area,
and when you go to remove that wrap,
that's probably the first time you're gonna find out
if you did have a repaint area or a respray area,
because there is a chance that that vinyl
will take that clear coat and paint right with it.
So that was a big bummer, I knew it was a risk,
I just didn't think it was that prevalent
that it pretty much is gonna happen
when you go to remove that wrap.
At least in my experience, it's been pretty consistent
that I run into this problem.
So, paint is dead, paint isn't dead,
what is the conclusion to my argument?
My stance right now is wraps are here for a good time,
paint is here for a long time.
Let me know what you guys think in the comments.
We'd love to hear if you've had
good or bad experiences also with wrap,
good or bad experiences also with paint,
and let's figure out who's gonna win the challenge.
That sounds so dumb.
- [Cameraman] Just say, "Peace."
- Peace.
(classic guitar rock)
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