We’d always heard rumors that there were companies that would pay you to wrap your car in their ads… but we thought it was a bunch of hooey. That’s right. Hooey. It’s not. There really are guys like Brian Morris of Pheonix, AZ who will pay you to wrap a big vinyl ad around your SUV.
What’s more, he’d appreciate it if you drove really slowly in traffic so that the people behind you can sit and think about how broken their pool is, and how they’d love it if Brian would come over and make it into a serious Playboy Mansion-type waterfall affair. For a price.
The world is a twisted, twisted place.
Your Ad Here, on My S.U.V.? And You’ll Pay? [NYT[
(Photo:Jeff Topping/NYT)
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These have been around for over a decade. I tried signing up for it awhile ago under carwraps.com
In my area there’s a Sea-world advertising New Beetle. It’s dressed like a whale. And when I say dresses, I mean on the roof it’s got a dorsal fin and on the rear hatch it’s got an enormous whale tail.
Every time I see it I’m jealous… Talk about a chick magnet…
How exactly does a fixed vinyl decal not damage your paint? Last time I checked car bras caused discoloration in the paint because of differences in sun exposure between surfaces. Do these decals allow light to pass like the semi-transparent ones made for rear windows of [redneck] trucks?
Not if the price is right and the product to be advertised is good.
They can do it with my vw beetle.
* Truxedo Performance Parts
It’s a very thin vinyl that doesn’t have a extremely aggressive adhesive on the back. As for the windows graphics, its called Perforated Vinyl where it is perforated 50% and has a black adhesive so that you can see out. We do these car wraps all the time at work (Print and Install) . We’ve had companies use brand new cars to get wrapped for 6 months and after the removal, it looks the way it did before we wrapped it. If anyone is going to do this to their car, just make sure the wrap is printed on “3M Controltac 180c” that is the best stuff on the market.@shades_of_blue:
@jamesdenver:
I was going to say that it would depend on what I was advertising, and
as long as it was a product which I actually liked, yeah, I’d probably
do it. But after reading your post, I don’t know anymore. You bring up
an excellent point. Hmmm. I think maybe I wouldn’t.
why is it my comments never show up on here?
I would so go for this. I’m all for free money for just driving around with an add on my van