[Don N.]

It's been several months seen I have had a chance to post some pictures. Been extremely busy, so haven't had a chance to post some of the work/cars that I have been doing. The owner of this white Lamborghini Hurrican brought his car by to black out the amber reflectors on the front and rear bumpers of the car. In addition to blacking those pieces out, I also plasti dipped the rear Lamborghini badge in matte black to basically get rid of the only chrome piece on the vehicle's exterior. Overall, the work done was fairly simple, but these small changes still changed the look of the car up and gave everything a nice black and white color scheme. The owner of this car brought his car to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange County to have the vinyl and plasti dip work done.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

[Don N.]

There are a lot of people out there that would say gloss black roofs look the best on white cars, due to its contrast. Well, the same can almost be said for darker colored cars that get their chrome / brushed aluminum window trims blacked out.

I forget the exact name of the color of this metallic blue BMW E92 328 coupe, but as you can see in the before/after pictures. Simply blacking out the chrome window trim changes the look of the car completely. I used my gloss black vinyl material for the window trim, to give it the factory sport package look. The owner of the car came out to me in Anaheim Hills / Orange county from Cerritos to get the vinyl work done.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

[Don N.]

I think a lot of people believe that I only work on local cars, however, I actually have good amount of non-local or out of state customers as well who ship me parts to have wrapped. The most common items that I have people send to me to have wrapped are interior trim pieces.

For this particular non-local customer, they removed and shipped me their interior trim pieces to have me wrap it in the 3M Di noc matte carbon fiber vinyl material. The original finish was wood, which was a bit older and worn out, so the owner wanted to change up the look of his interior and clean it up at the same time. I only took pictures of the larger more complex pieces, just to show the level of detail that is involved in the wraps that I do.

















-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

[Don N.]

I do not get to post as many installed interior car wraps mainly because actually most of my interior wraps are from non-local members who ship me their interior trim pieces to wrap.

However, in this case, the owner of this E90 328i sedan came by to have me take care of every part of the process of the interior wrap for their car. Every piece that is being wrapped is removed from the car and individually wrapped. I take special care and attention to the rounded corners and edges of every piece, to make sure the vinyl will hold up over time.

For the interior of this car, we went with the 3M gloss carbon fiber finish, to give it that factory BMW carbon fiber interior look that’s typically available as an option or more commonly seen on E90 and E92 M3s. The owner of this car came out to me in Anaheim Hills / Orange County from near Mission Viejo to have the vinyl car wrap done on the interior.

I tried to take some pictures of the interior indoors and outdoors to give a better perspective of how the material looks in different lighting. However, some of the pictures didn’t come out as well as I had hoped, but hopefully you guys are still able to see the details of the wrap.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

[Don N.]

Surprisingly, this is becoming more of a common occurrence, even on fairly new cars (5-7 years old). I used to see this kind of issue more on Hondas and Acuras, but apparently a lot of black BMW E60 5 series have been showing up with similar issues in their paint. This black BMW E60 550 sedan had me wrap the roof of his car in my gloss black vinyl material to help cover up the oxidizing and fading factory paint. The gloss black wrap is a fairly close match to the gloss jet black finish of the BMW's factory paint, making this a cheaper alternative to having to repaint the whole roof. The owner of this car came out to me in Anaheim Hills / Orange County from Oceanside / San Diego to have the vinyl wrap done on his roof.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

[Don N.]

The owner of this silver/grey Mercedes GTS AMG coupe came by to have me black out the chrome badges and emblems. I plasti dipped the rear emblems, front hood emblem and the star on the front grill. For the chrome horizontal slats on the front grill, I wrapped those in my gloss black vinyl, to match the gloss black grill that they were attached to already. The owner of this car was from Orange County and came out to me in Anaheim Hills to have the plasti dip and vinyl work done. I like the way the hood emblem turned out. The details in the emblem were not lost after being plasti dipped. The matte finish gives it a more interesting look.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

[Don N.]

I think I have some guys on here ask me about "redding" out their clear portion of their tail lights to completely make the entire thing read. I don't have pictures of it on an BMW, but hopefully this will still be able to give you guys a general idea of how the red vinyl over the clear portion looks.

Did something slightly different on these tails than most of the pictures you guys usually see of me tinting/smoking the tails. For this silver Mercedes Benz C32 AMG sedan, I applied a transparent red film over the white portions of the rear tail light blinker areas, so that the white/clear portions matched the rest of the red on the tail lights. It's a subtle change that changes the way the car looks and is still reversible for if the owner decided to go back to factory later on when selling the car or if they just want to change the look up again. I did this car during one of my norcal/bay area trips.

Right/driver side red clear film applied - Left/passenger side stock


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-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

[Don N.]

Here's one of the cars that I did some vinyl work on the other day up here in norcal / Bay Area / San Jose. The owner of this white E46 325i sedan brought his car by to have me vinyl wrap his roof with my matte black vinyl material. It's not as often that BMW or Euro guys in general go with the matte black finish, so this is a good example for those who were thinking or considering getting it done on your cars. The roof was plastidip before, but the vinyl provides a much smoother end result and finish, and is just as easily reversible.













-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

[Don N.]

The owner of this car is actually coming back to have me tint his head lights lightly as well, but I figured I’d post pictures of what I already have of the car and post the other pictures later.

The film that I use for tinting or smoking the head / tail lights is a fairly light shade. It’s suppose to give a fairly OEM look and almost appear as if it was like that from the factory. I tinted his tail lights, lower rear bumper lights and also the small turn signal lights on his front fenders. It must have been bad timing with the sunlight, but it was fairly bright out that day and there was quite a bit of glare coming off of the tail lights.

Hopefully you guys are still able to get somewhat of an idea of how the slightly darker tinted lights look. The fender light pieces are not as noticeable in the pictures, cause they got washed out from the bright light. However, in person they are a lot more noticeable.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

[AnthonyT]

Will you be coming to the Bay Area anytime soon again?

[Don N.]

Trying to figure something out hopefully within the next two months or so.

I have had some people ask for some pictures of the film that I use on head lights, after seeing me post pictures of it primarily on tail lights, so here are some pictures of an Audi R8 that I did. I'll post pictures of the M6's head lights from the pictures above once I get a chance to resize them.

The owner of this white Audi R8 was getting other work done on the car and he decided to have me tint his headlights with my light smoke/tint film as well. The owner of this car was from around the Los Angeles county area and drove out to me in Orange County to get the work done. I took some pictures of the car with the headlights off and the parking lights on to show how the light transmission looked like after the install was done. Over, it gave it a nice meaner look without reducing overall light output by anything too much.

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-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

[Don N.]

I thought I had taken more pictures of this car, but three is all I have I suppose. This is a car that I did for Hyundai for last year's SEMA, just to give you an idea of how some old some of my pictures can be or take before getting uploaded. They wanted to do a real carbon roof, but did not have enough time to do it before SEMA, so having me vinyl wrap it with the 3M dinoc matte carbon fiber vinyl material was the next alternative. I wrapped both the painted and glass part that's on the Veloster.







-Don Nguyen

don@wannaberacer.com

[Don N.]

Not many people know that I use/have other colors of head/tail light film in addition to the normal tint/smoke films that most people typically have me use on their cars. The owner of this Mini Cooper brought his car by to have me tint his head lights yellow and his tail lights with red. I know the yellow headlights isn’t for everybody, but the owner of this Mini wanted to do something different, and it’s always possible to go back to stock/reversible with vinyl. The owner of this car drove out from Inland Empire to me in Anaheim hills/Orange county to have the work done.

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-Don Nguyen

Don@WannabeRacer.com

[Don N.]

I originally made these flags over 10 years ago as a homage to the original BMW E36 M3 LTW cars that came with these flags. I had stopped making decals/graphics for a while, but recently have started offering decals and stickers again.

Anyways, I know this was mainly an E36 thing, but I just wanted to see if maybe any of you guys on here might be interested in something like this as well.













-Don

Don@WannabeRacer.com

[Don N.]

The owner of this blue F10 BMW 550i contacted me to see if I could vinyl wrap the diffuser on his car with the 3M 1080 gloss carbon fiber material. He brought his car out to me in Orange County from around Riverside, for me do to the work on his car. Usually a lot of diffusers are not very practical to wrap due to their shapes/curves, which makes it hard for the vinyl to stick and stay conformed to over time. However, this one was fairly flat and there wasn't too much heat from around the exhaust areas on this car so that was a good thing as well.

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-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

[Don N.]

I have had lots of requests from people to start offering pre cut vinyl pieces for those who are non-locals or that simply want to DIY it.

However, I want to get a general idea of what kind of pre cut pieces people would be interested in.

I most likely will create a new thread for this, but decided just to post this in here first.

-Don

[Don N.]

I have had lots of requests from people to start offering pre cut vinyl pieces for those who are non-locals or that simply want to DIY it.

However, I want to get a general idea of what kind of pre cut pieces people would be interested in.

I most likely will create a new thread for this, but decided just to post this in here first.

-Don

[F30Bruhh]

How much would you charge for a 2011 E92 BMW for the roof?

[Don N.]

Price would typically depend on what type of finish you'd be interested in as well. Shoot me a message.

-Don

[Don N.]

I know I don't post this often, but I also do clear headlight film protection as well. I just never really take pictures of it, since you can never really see or tell the difference of a before and after.

In this picture the driver side has already been done and the passenger side has been applied, just waiting to be trimmed. You can see everything is custom fitted, since I do not use pre cut materials. This allows me to cover more of the headlights than pre cut pieces do and also get a closer/better fit to the pieces that I am covering/applying the material to.

Clear headlight protective film is good if you have glass headlights, so it'll prevent rocks from cracking it or chipping it. This can also be applied to fog lights, which are more prone to cracking, since they're lower/closer to the ground. Even if your headlights are plastic, the film will help prevent nicks and chips in the plastic lenses. It'll also help protect/prevent against oxidation better. If your headlights are already oxidized/faded, I can clear/clean those up for you before putting on the clear film.

[Don N.]

More recently, most of my interior wraps have been with the 3M gloss carbon fiber vinyl finish. However, for this particular BMW E92 335i coupe, we went with the 3M di-noc carbon fiber vinyl material, which is more of a matte or "dry carbon" type of look. There's not necessarily one benefit for going with one over the other, as far as looks are concerned. It is primarily all preference between the two different types of finishes.









-Don Nguyen

Don@WannabeRacer.com

[Don N.]

I applied my gloss black vinyl wrap material to his roof. I had some requests for closer up pictures of around the sunroof and antenna areas, to squash any doubts or worries that some had regarding those two areas. As you can see, everything is done very neatly and there are no seams or exposed areas of paint there. The owner of this car was around the Inland Empire area I believe, and came out to me in Orange County to have his roof done.















-Don

Don@WannabeRacer.com