Wrapping a car is a popular way to change the colour of your car while protecting the original paintwork. However, the cost of wrapping can vary depending on the paint colour of the car. Especially for light or bright colours like white, silver, yellow, red and blue, the cost can be higher compared to dark colours like black or grey. In this blog, I explain in detail why this is so.
1. Visibility of gaps
Light car colours have the property of showing small cracks and spaces between panels more clearly than dark colours. When wrapping a light-coloured car, you need to take extra care to ensure that you wrap far enough in to ensure that you no longer see the original paint colour anywhere.
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2. More time for precision
Wrapping a light-coloured car takes much more time because we wrap further in than, say, a black car. This work is much more precise.
On a black car, we can cold cut what we call the film on the edges, this means that we do not need to fold the film around the edge for an invisible finish because you cannot see the black paint through the cracks. With white, however, this is different. Here, we have to fold the wrap film around all edges and seams to get full coverage.
3. Lots of disassembly work
A white car involves a lot of assembly work to achieve a perfect wrap. Because white paint contrasts sharply with most film colours, everything has to be finished carefully to avoid leaving any white edges visible anywhere.
This means that parts such as bumpers, handles, mirrors, lights and window mouldings are dismantled so that the film can be applied tightly and completely through everywhere. This extra work ensures a perfect finish and prevents the original colour from showing through gaps or seams.
Although this process takes more time, it does produce the best results. For a black (Read: dark paint colours) car, this is less necessary, but for a light paint colour, this approach is essential for a high-quality and perfect wrap.
4. Choose the ideal paint colour for wrapping. Black!
We can wrap any car with any paint colour but the most ideal paint colour is still black. Black cars offer a solid background that reflects the wrap colour perfectly and allows for less visibility of gaps. This allows the wrap film on black cars to be applied faster and more efficiently, keeping costs lower than with a light paint colour such as white or silver. So if you still have the choice when ordering your new car, always go for a black one!
Have you already ordered your car with a different paint colour anyway, no disaster we will still make a picture of your car, it just costs a bit more.
Read more about our prices and read here how is the price of a car wrap determined.
5. To wrap or not to wrap inside doors and rebates
The biggest advantage of wrapping the insides is that the original paint colour disappears completely, giving the wrap an even sleeker and more luxurious result. Especially for cars with a light original colour, such as white or silver, this prevents contrasts from remaining visible when the doors are open. This completes the transformation and gives an exclusive look.
However, wrapping the rebates and inner sides involves even more additional hours and costs, as it is a labour-intensive process. Doors and door panels have to be dismantled in order to apply the film must be done with great precision.
Want the most complete look? Then this option is definitely worth considering.
