Center console wrap

[KillsBugs]

Evening all - have been doing some digging on the center console. Have read all about Wicked Coatings and the great work they do. My question is, has anyone successfully tried wrapping their center consoles?

Can buy a suitable roll of 3M black satin wrap for under £40 and I would have thought that would be a good way to avoid having to remove the rubber coating etc. I'm looking to just go back to black rather than body colour so feel as though Wicked coatings might be overkill.

I can barely use cling film efficiently so not sure my wrapping technique will be great but believe this stuff to be more forgiving than wraps 10 years ago.

Has anyone had success?

 

[remarklima]

I went for a spray coating... You can get the textured, matt finish spray paints.

You do need to take everything out, remove all the buttons and screens and then do a lot of thin coats, but surely that has to be easier than trying to wrap round all the curves?

 

[Marmoset]

I tried it on my 996 centre console a few weeks back, 10 minutes into the job and I knew it wasn't going to work for me, too many convex and concave curves in close proximity to deal with. I've bitten the bullet and stripped the rubber coating off and am going to give it a diy spray job.

 

[Stoddy]

I highly recommend Wicked Coatings.
They did my centre console a year or so ago, the finish is incredible. Way better than I could've done with a rattle tin.
Worth it in my humble. 👍

 

[porkchops]

contacted wicked coating for this job and their price is nearly twice what it was 5 years ago! I am most likely get my local paint shop to do it instead.

 

[Indischrot]

How much did Wicked Coatings quote?

I'm not really surprised the price has gone up since 5 years ago - most things have.

I'm pretty sure they did a discount for a group buy so perhaps it's worth asking them if you can get enough people on here that are interested.

 

[porkchops]

Yes I was expecting an increase but to be honest not that much.
I have a quote from them from 2017 and it was £225 including vat and postage. This was outside of the group discount as I missed it at the time.
Asked for a quote last week and it's £400

 

[Marky911]

Is the wicked coatings stuff that peel-able paint? So like a spray on wrap that some places are doing.

If it's just paint then the Porsche tax is strong there.
My paint guy would want about £80 to do that, if that.

He prep'd and resprayed my battered 205 grill last week for £50 and it's perfection. It wasn't worth me buying the paint and doing it myself at that price.