First ever DIY pre-cut Color PPF Wrap for R1T - 12hrs install time

[SwampNut]

Don't do it. You might like it too much!

Meh, no. I have pics and video to edit tomorrow.

Short answer, whatever, it's ok.

Not as ugly as those Porsche station wagons.

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[SwampNut]

 

[LivingInKaos]

Hey, @twraps , you want to make a 1/20th kit for wrapping the model trucks ????

 

[twraps]

I like it! I will make it and include it in the kit shortly.

Hey, @twraps , you want to make a 1/20th kit for wrapping the model trucks ????

I don't know, to be honest it doesn't make much economic sense because it will be a cheap product requiring a lot of manual handling because people will want it in different colors we don't stock, and ordering small quantities is a PITA and super expensive. With that said, let me see if I get a burst of inspiration once I receive mine...it hasn't shipped yet, but hopefully it will ship shortly, I ordered it days ago.

 

[LivingInKaos]

I like it! I will make it and include it in the kit shortly.


I don't know, to be honest it doesn't make much economic sense because it will be a cheap product requiring a lot of manual handling because people will want it in different colors we don't stock, and ordering small quantities is a PITA and super expensive. With that said, let me see if I get a burst of inspiration once I receive mine...it hasn't shipped yet, but hopefully it will ship shortly, I ordered it days ago.

Can't you just scale your pre-cut models by 1:20 ?????

Ha ha ha, I was only joking really. I just wanted to be the first to ask . I want to try to wrap one of mine with the same color as my truck since I have a chunk laying around. Painting would make more sense, but I can't get my color that way....

 

[twraps]

I could easily scale it 1/20 but I don't believe that will work at all. For instance, all panels for the Color PPF kit wrap around the edges. The rear door of the die cast model does not seem to open (based on videos I saw), that means that the edge of that door and it's neighboring panels (tunnel door, rear quarter, possibly front door too) will overall and look horrible. Edge folding around tight areas will also not work out of the box with scaling, for instance in the front bumper where the light bar and ovals are. So while a scaled down model will definitely be in the spirit of the real thing, it will certainly require some work from me to get it right.
I can also draw comparison with my experience wrapping the real Cybertruck and the kids Cybertruck... they share a lot of the same design concepts and on top of your mind you may think - just scale it down...reality showed that just scaling it down doesn't work, and we ended up designing the one for the kids CT from scratch.

 

[bigsky]

It looks great from the pictures, and you seem to be doing all the right things. For the R1T owner, a bargain to have PPF installed "gratis" a la guinea pig regardless of the outcome.

Good to see that you offer the install option also. For those like me, there is no way in hell I would ever go DIY on PPF install. Too much at stake. I am not good at PPF install (and many other things) and not about to try doing that on my EVs. For one thing, I might do a half-assed job at best, and for those discerning, perfectionist customers out there, an okay, acceptable, etc. PPF finish is never an option.

I gladly will pay again to have a professional install PPF on my R1S. It is 10 mil PPF with ceramic coating. PPF has gone onto every single metal surface and trim. Indeed, the only parts of my R1S that do not have PPF are the plastic bumpers and lower plastic door trims and glass. Two days taking breaks to do this one? Wow, full install on mine plus ceramic coating plus ceramic coating on wheel drums and calipers took almost two weeks. My professional installer said that there are so many goddamn pieces of trim on Rivians, that's why it takes so long do to the job. Others, sure, they only will install PPF on metal panels. Wonder if paint correction, that every vehicle needs regardless, is done. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Paid dearly for mine, but the work done on my R1S is a PPF work of art. I would not have it any other way.

There is a lot more to PPF installation that merely slapping vinyl on the panels and trying to eliminate all the bubbles, and calling it a day. A lot more.

 

[Riviot]

I could easily scale it 1/20 but I don't believe that will work at all. For instance, all panels for the Color PPF kit wrap around the edges. The rear door of the die cast model does not seem to open (based on videos I saw), that means that the edge of that door and it's neighboring panels (tunnel door, rear quarter, possibly front door too) will overall and look horrible. Edge folding around tight areas will also not work out of the box with scaling, for instance in the front bumper where the light bar and ovals are. So while a scaled down model will definitely be in the spirit of the real thing, it will certainly require some work from me to get it right.
I can also draw comparison with my experience wrapping the real Cybertruck and the kids Cybertruck... they share a lot of the same design concepts and on top of your mind you may think - just scale it down...reality showed that just scaling it down doesn't work, and we ended up designing the one for the kids CT from scratch.

What's the ratio for Matchbox R1T? 1:20 seems awful big.

 

[twraps]

It looks great from the pictures, and you seem to be doing all the right things. For the R1T owner, a bargain to have PPF installed "gratis" a la guinea pig regardless of the outcome.

Good to see that you offer the install option also. For those like me, there is no way in hell I would ever go DIY on PPF install. Too much at stake. I am not good at PPF install (and many other things) and not about to try doing that on my EVs. For one thing, I might do a half-assed job at best, and for those discerning, perfectionist customers out there, an okay, acceptable, etc. PPF finish is never an option.

I gladly will pay again to have a professional install PPF on my R1S. It is 10 mil PPF with ceramic coating. PPF has gone onto every single metal surface and trim. Indeed, the only parts of my R1S that do not have PPF are the plastic bumpers and lower plastic door trims and glass. Two days taking breaks to do this one? Wow, full install on mine plus ceramic coating plus ceramic coating on wheel drums and calipers took almost two weeks. My professional installer said that there are so many goddamn pieces of trim on Rivians, that's why it takes so long do to the job. Others, sure, they only will install PPF on metal panels. Wonder if paint correction, that every vehicle needs regardless, is done. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Paid dearly for mine, but the work done on my R1S is a PPF work of art. I would not have it any other way.

There is a lot more to PPF installation that merely slapping vinyl on the panels and trying to eliminate all the bubbles, and calling it a day. A lot more.

Different people, different tastes/needs. You can have a $500 painting on your wall or a $10,000,000 one. Some people will be fine with the $500, some won't. Doesn't make one right and the other wrong, just different needs/tastes/priorities. I for one am fine with the $500 I like how my R1S is both protected and in a color that I love + given that this is much cheaper than going all in, I can just decide "Screw it, I want it in orange now!" and just change colors over a weekend without spending an obscene amount of money.

What's the ratio for Matchbox R1T? 1:20 seems awful big.

Rivian says 1:20

 

[Riviot]

Different people, different tastes/needs. You can have a $500 painting on your wall or a $10,000,000 one. Some people will be fine with the $500, some won't. Doesn't make one right and the other wrong, just different needs/tastes/priorities. I for one am fine with the $500 I like how my R1S is both protected and in a color that I love + given that this is much cheaper than going all in, I can just decide "Screw it, I want it in orange now!" and just change colors over a weekend without spending an obscene amount of money.


Rivian says 1:20

I have that one too, big it's so big! But fine, I'll accept PPF kit for that size.

 

[twraps]

I have that one too, big it's so big! But fine, I'll accept PPF kit for that size.

 

[twraps]

For the record - I just developed A pillar that wraps around. So future customers will get that too.
Also for the record I think it looks really weird on the R1S...I am not keeping it. I can see how it can make visual sense on the R1T, given that the R1T's windows are otherwise "framed" by Color PPF on all sides, but since the R1S' are not, it just looks weird, like a pillar coming out of the hood and ending nowhere.

 

[SwampNut]

More a-pillar talk. One person slightly prefers it covered, the rest of us think it's 50/50. My wrap job is crap if you get close, but not from a normal distance. I may leave it one-sided.

And more interesting colors under fairly heavy clouds, late afternoon sun.

 

[SwampNut]

One vote for wrapped from another neighbor. Now…. Do I leave it as is? Try to do a better job and cover the other one? Redo my lazy but actually decent looking job from 5 feet away? Also this is a testament to how easy it is to use the Twraps kit. The errors I made were in cutting, not application. I did a fast and lazy job because I planned it to be temporary.

 

[twraps]

One vote for wrapped from another neighbor. Now…. Do I leave it as is? Try to do a better job and cover the other one? Redo my lazy but actually decent looking job from 5 feet away? Also this is a testament to how easy it is to use the Twraps kit. The errors I made were in cutting, not application. I did a fast and lazy job because I planned it to be temporary.

If you send me some of that material back I can cut those and send them back to you so you don't have to hand cut.

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