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Wood Dash Wraps! Post them here!
- Thread starter warrior15r
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Looks really nice! I was looking at similar wood grain Dinocs from RM wraps and to get the grain long, you need to buy 6 foot lengths which are very expensive and sine the wraps are 4 foot wide, mostly wasted. Is that what you did or any other solution?
Thanks to you both. Yeah I ran into the same issue. Luckily my wrap/tint guy is a 3m distributor and was able to get me a custom length. He wasn't thrilled about getting the material without doing the work but he let it slide. I paid him enough money already
FWIW you might want to email Rvinyl or RM and ask if they can cut you a 5ft piece. Although it's not on their website they'd be cutting from a larger roll most likely and might just help you out.
I did a wrap and it looks awful as you can still feel the texture of the wood grain
Yeah the wood grain is a probablematic. Carbon fiber wrap does a good job of hiding it but only in shade. However when the sunlight hits it, it looks horrific again. I ended up buying a original performance white dash piece from RPM Tesla to swap in.
That's correct. It'll heavily depend on your wrap color. I tried matte white from 3M and it was horrific when sitting in sunlight. You see the wood grain seep through when the car is at certain angles in the sun. I also tried white carbon fiber which did a better job but in the sun, you can still see some wood grain.
This could very from car to car? I'm not sure how consistent the wood gain texture is from one car to the next. It bothered me too much so I was very happy to be able to swap out the wood grain.
RPM Tesla sells the original white that Tesla produces. They have customers who trade in their white for wood or carbon fiber etc. So RPM Tesla takes the trade-in and resells them.
Its literally a 5 min swap. There's a youtube video on how to remove the wood dash - super easy. I was local so I had RPM Tesla do it. Looked super easy.
RPM Tesla his some new stuff now too - pretty cool options - check it out:
Model 3 Dashboards - Carbon Fiber, Alcantara, Piano Black, White - From $249
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Oh man, I love Alcantara.... grey is a good blending color between the white and black... sort of why I went with a washed grey wood wrap. Thanks for the info!
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Finally had time to wash and clean the inside of my Model 3, here are photos of the stock white dash with the black interior. I also have the Pearl White paint which compliments it very nicely with the white seats standing out so much.
No issues with corners or edges lifting or bubbles... seems to be holding as solid as day one. If you're still having problems with lifting, you may have too much stretching at the corners and/or debris or grease (fingerprint smudge) on the edges. When working with vinyl it's ok to stretch the material pretty much everywhere except corners/edges, which should have smallest amount of stretching/resistance possible. Not to mention dust or grease can aggravate the issue.
You can clean the area with a q-tip (sponge type if you have it) and a tack solution made of 50% IPA, 50% water and a a drop of baby shampoo. Apply enough pressure that it cleans the debris/grease without pulling at the adhesive. Let dry and then flatten down with a heat gun on low.
3m also makes a vinyl wrap adhesive if the above doesn't work... but it's kind of a pain to get off (if and when you decide to un/reinstall). I think it's called Primer94.
