In the past few months we have wrapped several vehicles here at Pinnacle Custom Signs.  Since they are being done on a regular basis, we learned have some lessons that seem to have helped our design, material, and installation go pretty flawlessly.  By having our process and procedure down that ensures the customer gets the product they want, at a cost that is effective for us, we can apply graphics to multiple vehicles within a week. We have picked up several Do’s and Don’ts since we did our first wrap.  Here are a few that we would point out to someone who is interested in applying graphics to their vehicles. Design:  Make sure the design is eye-catching, but , more importantly, make sure it is also designed for a vehicle.  In our first few attempts, we took two-dimensional designs and tried to apply it to a car or van.  In doing this, we found that the designs would bend around the corners and the design elements did not land where they were supposed to on a vehicle.  We now recommend to all of our customers that we do the design work for their project, since we have an excellent designer who knows how to take into account the subtleties of designing for a vehicle.  Some of our most current work shows how much better the end product turns out. Material:  Use the right material for the job.  And, if you are not sure, always use a material that is one grade higher. On our first couple of wraps, we used a product that was supposed to work well on cargo vehicles.  Since we were wrapping service vans, so we figured it would be okay, but quickly found that it wasn’t.  Mid-way through the project, which included wrapping six vehicles in a fleet of vehicles for a local company, we upgraded to  the 3M product IJ180, and haven’t looked back since.  Unfortunately, we learned an expensive lesson in that we had to re-wrap the first two vehicles we did at our cost.  We now use the 3M product exclusively for all our wrap jobs, knowing the quality of the product’s performance.