[s-cars] Clear bra info

Mon Sep 8 20:24:29 PDT 2008

Guys,

The 3M Scotchgard material is pretty easy to get in many thicknesses,
exceptionally so! Any large format solvent based inkjet printing company can
get it in the thickness necessary for covering paint on cars, and use their
in house X-Y cutting systems to cut it into the shapes necessary. I'm going
to wager that the material comes in 30", 50" and larger roll widths, all
that's necessary for the shapes is a Freehand, Illustrator or vector based
file to cut them out of the material, not some high end CAD file for a die
cutter. These materials are cut in exactly the same fashion as "cut vinyl
with blade type cutting devices, and some actual lasers in some really high
applications, unless you have so many of one type of vehicles they can
justify the expense of actually making dies, which aren't cheap! This is
exactly the same cutting formats on stuff I did for many POP campaigns for
large format advertising! 
But the material alone isn't the issue as you can see when looking at any
vehicle wrap you might see on the street! The real issue is installation;
it's truly an art form to get the stuff on the cars, convex and concave
shapes and extra material. Although, any competent vehicle graphics
installer can do it. I'll have to go back into my notes, but 3M has an
official installer network which could be used with our cut material. 

And Tom makes an excellent point, we can make the templates, and put it on
cars! But the stuff looks crappy on anything other than good paint jobs!

Jack Walker

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of chris chambers
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 2:33 PM
To: Tom Green; s-car-list; weski at icubed.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Clear bra info

Gentz,

The Invinca-Shield.co web site is automaticly forwarded to
http://clearfilmprotection.com/

I'm gonna guess this new site bought out Invinca-Shield.com

HTH
Chris

--- Tom Green <trgreen at comcast.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately, Invinca-Shield went out of business last year, Paul.  
> 
> I had called wanting another kit for my avant, but I was told by
> Kim Handy, the finance director, that they were in negotiations for  
> selling that part of the business as a package, and the company
> president did not want to jeopardize negotiations.  When things  
> hadn't moved much I offered to buy a number of kits ( 5 to 10 ) in
> September 2007, but that was nixed as well.  They had a graphics  
> business separate from the clear bra, and I understood they
> would likely remain in business there, but only sell off the clear  
> bra operation, because it had grown so much, and the installation
> and dealer installation  training was such a big part of that part of
>  
> the business.  The president, Bart ? , promised to let me know
> who bought the patterns (cad-cam software patterns on a H-P  
> computer).  Since nobody is likely to measure another S4 and S6
> for a kit, I suspect the custom install is the only option now.  $600
>  
> or so instead of the $260 kit.
> 
> Then, when I tried to call a month later, the phones were dead and  
> the web site gone.  I have no idea where that hard drive went,
> but surely someone has it.  It had motorcycle, airplane, motor home, 
> 
> and about any motor vehicle you could imagine in the data-
> base, all painstakingly measured by hand and transferred to the  
> digital software program via a large x-y plotter.  The pattern
> cutting was all automated and controlled by the computer just as a  
> CNC milling machine operates.
> 
> I haven't found any more information about them.  I had hoped some of
>  
> the installers would know something or a new web site would
> appear with all their patterns on it.  I am sick about the effort I  
> put in this, only to have this happen.  If you see anything out there
>  
> that
> is similar or find anything about this company, please let me know.  
> 
> N. Wilkesboro, NC is such a small town and well off the beaten
> path that I doubt that any employees that would know the facts  
> remained in the area.
> 
> I do have an unused kit for a '98 e-class mercedes.  :-)
> 
> Tom
> 
> > Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:00:23 -0400
> > From: "P. Dooley" <weski at icubed.com>
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Clear bra info
> > To: Floyd Noel <floyd.noel at gmail.com>
> > Cc: S-Car-List at audifans.com
> > Message-ID: <48C4F7B7.6060406 at icubed.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > That's it Floyd!
> >
> > Thanks so much.  I'll be calling them later today.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > Floyd Noel wrote:
> >> http://www.s-cars.org/postnuke/modules.php? 
> >>
> op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=196&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
> >>
> >> Is this it?
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, P. Dooley <weski at icubed.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> So, I remember someone talking about a 3M clear bra kit for the  
> >>> C4 S6
> >>> cars but I can't find it in the archives.  I thought I saved that
>  
> >>> post
> >>> too cause I knew I was going to get some new paint this year and 
> 
> >>> would
> >>> want the clear bra before winter.  Well, I've got the paint done
> and
> >>> aged and know I can't find any place that sells a kit for the 95
> S6.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone still have the link from the old post?
> >>>
> >>> TIA,
> >>>
> >>> Paul
> >>> 95 S6 getting stone chips on a pristine bumper
> 
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