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I'm taking her to a car show at Langers in Sherwood Saturday morning!
That should bring a lot of attention at Cars & Coffee tomorrow. That turned out really nice.
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$3-4k. Requires hand washing. Should last 3-4 years with great care but also protects my paint which will be immaculate when I remove.
Wow! Out of my price range. Enjoy!
 
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Looks amazing! Two questions; how long is the wrap supposed to last, and do you have to report the color change to the DMV?
Depends on how you care for it/if it’s garaged. Yes. You are supposed to.
 

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I hope you don't do a lot of night driving. I had 30% tint applied and at night I can't see the entry to my parent's driveway from their road. No lights in that location, only a couple of reflectors, relatively rural area.

This experience kept me from doing anything more than 90% on my windshield. The tint guy had something super dark on his windshield and I asked "Do you ever have issues at night?" He said "Only when it rains, I can't really see the lane markings too well." ?

...yeah I'll stick with the 90% ceramic UV please.
 


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I hope you don't do a lot of night driving. I had 30% tint applied and at night I can't see the entry to my parent's driveway from their road. No lights in that location, only a couple of reflectors, relatively rural area.

This experience kept me from doing anything more than 90% on my windshield. The tint guy had something super dark on his windshield and I asked "Do you ever have issues at night?" He said "Only when it rains, I can't really see the lane markings too well." ?

...yeah I'll stick with the 90% ceramic UV please.
Confirm, I have 26% (I think) and at night it can be a little difficult to see out. But, it's worth it. Just looks better.
 

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I love the color. The factory colors for the MME are super boring. I’ll second the comment about not liking the matte finish but still dig the color. Looks great, congrats!!
 
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I love the color. The factory colors for the MME are super boring. I’ll second the comment about not liking the matte finish but still dig the color. Looks great, congrats!!
It’s definitely not a matte finish!
 

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I opted to plastidip ($7 per can at Walmart) my wheels and then gloss them with Spraymax 2k gloss. Total cost less than $50. If you need 4 jack stands, that's an additional $52ish. Floor jack is about $56 for a 2 ton jack. Torque wrench about $65 more or less. Overall, still much cheaper than other options, and you end up with tools. 4 coats of plastidip (took a total of 2 cans), and 1 can 2k. This is my 4th time plastidipping wheels. I did my F150 about 4 years ago (without gloss) and they still look great, even after taking it to the tire store to get rotated and balanced periodically. I'm really surprised how well the lug nuts hold up. Best of all, if you don't like it or screw up (hard to do), you can simply peel the dip off your wheels. If you get any scratches or chips, you can easily touch it up. It's not that hard to spray them with your wheels on if you don't want to jack up your car. Just run plastic behind the wheel and in front of rotors. If I had to do these again, I would have let the air out of the tires and used the paint chip color cards instead of taping. Faster and easier. While my wheels were off, I decided to simply tape the calipers and spray red with Rustoleum red caliper paint. $9 at Walmart. Super easy to tape and paint. You can also just buy black lugs if you'd prefer, or just leave them silver.

You don't have to spend big bucks to blackout your wheels. Took me 2 hours the first day taking tires off, taping, and spraying the first of 4 coats (30 mins between coats) for a total of about 4 hours, and then 10 minutes the next day to apply the 2k gloss in 2 coats, and another 45 minutes putting tires back on. Make sure you have a torque wrench that goes up to 150 ft/lbs or more, and a size 21mm socket. Let tires cure for at least 24 hours before mounting and driving. Be very careful putting lug nuts back on, since it takes a while before the spray really hardens. I went to the dollar store and bought a thing of black nail polish. It matches the gloss black perfectly, and I can touch up and of the lugs that may have the black scraped off. The other thing I would do differently is maybe have a 2nd can of the 2k gloss. There are parts on the inside portion of the wheels, where I didn't put the gloss on heavy enough, so you can see in the first photo it has more of a matt look. In person, you can't tell, so I don't really care. The cool things is I can just buy another can of the 2k, clean the wheel of dirt, and spray over to get the gloss.

PS - I didn't care about the mustang in the center wheel caps, so I just sprayed the entire caps black. I'll either paint the emblem by hand in red, or just buy new ones already done. That is, if I really care too much about it! :)

I just think the all black wheels looks so much better, but it's subjective. I couldn't find a MME with the nite pony package.

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Looks beautiful!
 

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Confirm, I have 26% (I think) and at night it can be a little difficult to see out. But, it's worth it. Just looks better.
This is scary…and a potential liability if you’re in a crash. Compromising safety for looks is dumb.
 

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Nice job but needs 20inch wheels to finish it me thinks
Ford Mustang Mach-E Full Color Change Wrap & Tinted -- Got It Back Today! (TeckWrap Royal Bronze and 5% ceramic tint) IMG_2369-removebg-preview-modified-modified
 
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This is scary…and a potential liability if you’re in a crash. Compromising safety for looks is dumb.
My windshield isn’t tinted dark. ? I can assure you my windows aren’t any darker than sunglasses.
 

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I opted to plastidip ($7 per can at Walmart) my wheels and then gloss them with Spraymax 2k gloss. Total cost less than $50. If you need 4 jack stands, that's an additional $52ish. Floor jack is about $56 for a 2 ton jack.
Something I've been wondering about: since there is one-and-only-one approved lifting spot in each corner, how to you transfer weight to a jack stand?

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Gorgeous color. Wish I could justify the spend on PPF but sadly my child and house have cash suck priority right now ?.
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