Anything that will go through the vinyl and require re-wrapping a panel would likely go through the clear and require more than just a wet sand/polish.
I've had a wrapped car for over a year now - it's gloss - and have had no real issues. In the first couple of months, I had to touch up a few wrinkled corners, but a few minutes with a heat gun and no more issues. It's pretty normal with a new wrap for the vinyl to want to lift and revert back to flat, but it's easily fixed by heating and letting it cool a few times. I also had to re-wrap 2 panels because someone backed into the car in a parking lot. No issues with the color matching. Also, her bumper scuffed the wrap a lot, but it never went through the wrap to the paint, her car chipped down to the black plastic bumper.
I just wrapped some new sideskirts and they match the year old wrap perfectly, no fading. Maybe matte is different.
I'm not sure why wrapping your car would cause you to sell? If you hate the wrap so much, pull it off. How does selling your car fix the problem? The whole reason people do it is that it's reversible.
Is the wrap perfect, no. There are going to be little areas that aren't perfect, but it's not that different than custom paint. I've had multiple cars custom painted in the past - show cars with custom blended colors and I'm honestly never going to do that again. If you drive the car and chip the paint, you basically repaint the entire part, can't touch up custom paint, won't match. And just like wraps, if you look hard enough, you will find little areas that could have been done better. And these were paint jobs that cost 2-3x paying someone to wrap the car even with sponsorship.
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Originally Posted by wonton1017
Had my previous car wrapped about 2 years ago and I will never get my car fully wrapped again. If my car was not black, I would wrap the roof and side mirrors only and that would be fine with me. I wrapped my grilles and side reflectors on the e92, these are easy to do and imperfections are rare.
I would have never sold the car if I never wrapped it. It was just insane to keep clean, especially when the car was matte white. Had some light scratches that went through the 3M vinyl wrap and I had to get the entire panel re-wrapped. Please note that this is actually more expensive than the standard wet sand + touch up + polish procedure.
Even the best vinyl wrapping companies can't stop the weather from causing wrinkles in extremely tight and sharp corners. Some companies use a method of overlaying separate pieces of vinyl together to overcome wrinkles but you, as the owner, will notice it.
Matte vinyl wraps will age through time like paint, but at a much faster and more noticeable rate. If you scratch a small part on your fender and it requires you to re-wrap that panel, it will never match in color again. For example, the entire car would be darker and less vibrant than the newly wrapped panel. <- This is a permanent issue because no matter what you do to clean the vinyl, it will never look like new again. And if you try to clean the vinyl too aggressively (I mean by even just using a sponge and rubbing it with medium pressure), it will "polish" the vinyl wrap and leave a permanent "burned" spot.
I know how it feels to know that you can change the color of your car to your dream color for only $2500 and that you can revert the color any time. But the truth is, you will NEVER want to revert back to stock anyways because you spent $2500 on getting it wrapped. DIY might be different because it will only cost $500 for the material and maybe a week of your time, but damn if I had to wrap my entire car myself, I would never want to spend the time unwrapping.
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