What Do You Need to Wrap a Car?

Are you planning to vinyl wrap your car? Wrapping your car in vinyl is a big project, so knowing where to start is crucial. Planning your project is the first step, and there are several things you need to consider, such as the type and color of vinyl you'd like to wrap your car with, the workspace you're planning to use and the tools and equipment you need to get the job done right. Choosing the right tools for pre-wrapping, post-wrapping and cleaning is essential when customizing your car with vinyl wraps. 

If you're not sure what you need to wrap a car, then here are the basic tools and supplies to consider before getting started.

What is Vinyl Wrapping? 

Vinyl wrapping is covering the panels of your car using high-quality sheets of vinyl wrap that make it look like it has been painted, but without the expense or commitment. You can use vinyl wrap to customize and protect your car's interior and exterior. Vinyl wrap comes in a wide variety of finishes, allowing you to achieve looks you can't get with paint alone. You can wrap one or two panels, such as your hood or trunk panels, or you can wrap your entire car. The choices you have for customizing your ride using vinyl wrap are almost endless.

However, wrapping a car is not as simple as peel, stick and walk away. Covering your car's panels using vinyl wrap is a big undertaking, and the process requires skill and the right tools. Covering your car in vinyl wrap is a great option for those who want to change a car's color without investing time and money into complex paint jobs. You can cover all or part of your car in custom vinyl wraps.

Why Vinyl Wrapping?

There are a lot of benefits to wrapping your car such as protecting your paint and customizing your vehicle's interior, exterior or both. Vinyl wrapping your car gives you the ability to customize your car's exterior without investing precious time and money in costly paint jobs. Where paint jobs require time-consuming stripping, sanding, priming and painting that often takes several days and hours of work, vinyl wrapping your car only takes one or two days and can be done by yourself. 

Wrapping your car protects and customizes your ride's paint job for much less money. Vinyl wrap is also safe for any type of paint as the glue used to adhere the wrap is gentle on your car. This makes vinyl wrapping a car an easy choice for anyone looking to customize your car's color and finish without spending a fortune doing so.

Protect and Customize 

Vinyl wrapping your car gives you the ability to fully customize your ride with a range of options. The sleek, clean look of vinyl wrap also keeps your car's paint job like new and many times, people cannot tell the difference between a high-end paint job and vinyl wrap.High quality CheetahWrap vinyl  will keep your car's original paint from chipping, scratching and fading over time. Also, you can easily change your car's wrap when you feel like it's time for a switch.

Cost-Efficient Option for Customization

Vinyl wrapping your car costs a fraction of the price of painting your car, and it saves a lot of time too. That's not to say vinyl wrapping your car is easy. Wrapping your car requires skill, patience, a steady hand and the right tools. If not done properly, vinyl wrapping your car can turn into a costly mess. The good news is that today's vinyl wraps are very user-friendly, so even a beginner will see good results with the proper tools and attention to the process.

Tools Needed to Wrap a Car

Before wrapping your car, consider the necessary wrap tools and equipment you'll need to get the job done. Having the right vinyl wrap tools to get the results you want the first time saves you a lot of stress and headaches. You'll need proper marking and measuring items, car cleaning and preparation equipment plus tools for installing the wrap itself.

You'll need the following tools to wrap a car: 

• Heat Gun
• Felt Squeegee
• Stickers Magnet
• Carving Knife
• Masking Tape
• Tucking Tool Set
• Air Bubble Remove Pin Pen
• Car Wrap Knifeless Tape
• Magnets
• High-quality Vinyl Wrap

Let's take a closer look at each of the items you'll need to wrap a car as well as what they're used for in the vinyl wrapping process.

The maintenance of car wrap depends on the superb craftsmanship of the technician. Of course, good tools can get twice the result with half the effort. Let's take a look at these car wrap tools and their usage.

If you are still hesitating what kind of car wrap you want to install, welcome to our website CheetahWrap. We have a variety of colors and finishes for you to choose, and the quality is good and the price is not expensive. 

Heat Gun

The heat gun is used to heat and shape the car wrap. It is also possible to heat some stubborn paste on the surface of the car paint to make the surface smooth before car wrap work.
It should be noted that the heat gun is to assist the shape of the car wrap, just heat it slightly, do not melt the car wrap, it may change the color of the car wrap.

Felt Squeegee

Squeegee tools are widely used in the installation of various car wrap. Ideal for all vinyl applications and will not scratch during installation. It can also scrape off stubborn stains on painted surfaces.

Stickers Magnet

It is used to assist in fixing the car wrap. With this, it is very convenient for one person to operate.

Carving Knife

Used to cut side seams when car wrap is installed. But you need to be very careful, it is best to stick masking tape on the side to prevent scratches on the paint surface.

Masking Tape

Before installing the car wrap, it is best to stick a circle of masking tape on the side seam as a protection. Otherwise, when the car wrap is removed in the future, it is easy to find scratches from large and small carving knives.

Tucking Tool Set

In the narrow corners where the squeegee cannot be used, you can use the Tucking Tool to stuff the excess car wrap into the gap.

 

Air Bubble Remove Pin Pen

The car wrap in our store usually has air release, but if there are huge air bubbles due to improper operation, just prick it gently with the Air Bubble Remove Pin Pen, and then use the squeezee to release the air bubbles.

Car Wrap Knifeless Tape

Simply lay the Knifeless Tape down on your vinyl wrap surface in the desired layout, wrap the surface with your desired vinyl, then pull the tape’s filament up through the vinyl to slice cleanly through the excess.