Install Guides — Read This First

INSTALL

Every kit ships with the vinyl cut to your chassis and printed fitting instructions. You will want an alcohol wipe and a clean cloth from your own shelf — no separate adhesive order, no heat gun for badge overlays, no YouTube rabbit hole required. This page is the walkthrough for people who like knowing what happens before it happens.

Before you start (every kit)

  1. Park somewhere dry. Vinyl and rain have never once cooperated.
  2. Clean the surface you are wrapping and let it dry fully — adhesive sticks to the car, not to whatever the car drove through last week.
  3. Dry-position the piece before you peel anything. The cut file did the hard thinking; your job is lining it up once, not three times.

Badge Overlay Kits — V1 (PATINA & YOUNGTIMER) and V2 (FORGE & G-SPEC)

Tools: an alcohol wipe and a cloth. Heat gun: not required for the standard install.

Sizing comes first. The overlay is cut to the quadrant — measured from the badge centre out to the edge of the coloured field, not counting the silver divider lines. V1 is 23mm on the bonnet and boot; V2 is 22.5mm bonnet and 20.5mm boot. Check yours against the Fitment Guide before you peel anything.

  1. Clean and dry the badge.
  2. Line the overlay up against the badge geometry — it is cut to your chassis, so it only sits right one way.
  3. Peel, place, and press from the centre outwards.
  4. Work the edges down last. Done.

Afterwards it is a car part, not a house plant: give the adhesive 24–48 hours before washing, then wash the car as you normally would. And if you ever sell the car or change finish, it is designed to be removed cleanly.

LATCH — Key Fob Wraps

Check which fob you actually have before ordering — the G30-onward Comfort Access Display Key gets its own cut file, not a "one size" fob sticker; everything else 2009-on runs the Standard cut.

  1. Clean the fob shell. It has been in your pocket for years; give it a minute.
  2. Align the wrap to the buttons and cutouts — Display Key wraps clear the screen, Standard wraps do not need to.
  3. Press down section by section. By hand, no tools, no heat gun. Done.

SPINE — V-Brace Kits (kidney grille surround / vent trim)

No drilling — nothing permanent about it.

The mounting hardware kit is included by default; skip it only if you are reusing hardware from a previous fit.

  1. Clean the grille surround.
  2. Position the kit over the existing surround — it is die-cut for your grille generation's tooling, not a stretch-to-fit universal sheet.
  3. Fit using the supplied hardware. No modification, no drilling into a factory part.

The full mechanical walkthrough, including the 5× Torx screws under the hood seal and how the grille clips release, is on the Fitting Instructions page.

TRACER — Pin Stripes & Tint Kits

Pin stripes: cut to length per body style (Sedan / Touring / Coupe / Convertible / SAV), so start by ordering the right variant, not by trimming the wrong one.

  1. Clean along the panel line.
  2. Anchor one end, then work along the stripe slowly, pressing as you go.
  3. Straight lines reward patience. Rushed lines get photographed by your mates.

Tint kits: cut per light-cluster shape for your chassis, in Front / Rear / Both options.

  1. Clean the light units.
  2. Align the film to the cluster shape and press outwards from the centre.

Aftercare

  • Wash with a pH-neutral additive — for keeping the finish you just paid for.
  • Give the adhesive 24–48 hours before washing, then wash the car as you normally would.

If something goes sideways

  • Ordered the wrong chassis? Returns are accepted unused and unapplied — contact support before install, not after.
  • Anything else: Support. Real UK garage, real people.

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