Car sticker strips: types, best materials

For tuning a car, it is desirable to use a polymer vinyl film, which is easy to stick and lasts a long time. After removing such auto-styling, there are no traces left on the body.

Stickers-stripes on cars passing through the entire car or located in some part of the body are always paid attention to. The car with them looks attractive and unusual. And stickers often help to understand the character of the owner of the car.

Varieties of stripe stickers for a car

Decorating a car is called styling. Often, stripes are used for this, which contain some information, differ in an unusual pattern, or represent several prints of different colors and widths. One of the drivers' favorite variant of long stickers is a wide strip in the middle and two symmetrical narrow ones at the edges. Sometimes the lines run along the entire hood.

Styling

When buying sticker strips for cars, you need to remember that in our country the standard for the design of cars of specialized and emergency services has been adopted. This helps such vehicles stand out in the traffic flow. Using the schemes recommended by the standard threatens ordinary drivers with punishment. An example is a white car with a red stripe on the body. This is a hallmark of the car of the National Guard, and therefore it is undesirable to design a personal car in such a style.

By material of manufacture

Car stickers go through the entire car or are placed in some part of the body: on the side, door, hood, bumper. Therefore, the film must be durable and easy to stick. Several types are used:

• Standard vinyl - with a glossy, matte or corrugated texture and a variety of colors.
• Super thin - suitable for gluing both on the body and on the glass. This is an expensive styling option.
• Reflective - draws attention to the car at night.
• Light-accumulating - and then reflecting daylight at night.
• Chameleon - with always looking new, and therefore not annoying stripe stickers.
• Carbon fiber - well protecting the body from external factors, therefore suitable for gluing strips in its lower part.

Vinyl stripe stickers for cars

To refresh your car, it is not necessary to change the color completely. Sometimes sticker strips are enough to make a vehicle look new.

At the point of attachment

Stickers-strips on the car body are applied in different places. Most often you can see such a car decoration:

• Longitudinal strips of the same color (there may be two or three) of the same or different widths, passing through the roof and hood. This option is well suited for sports cars or with streamlined shapes. Often such stickers are chosen by racing fans, energetic young people.
• Stripes imitating the color of a predator look attractive on the side of the car. They are glued to doors and wings or fixed in only one place.
• Longitudinal lines with an abstract pattern that lengthens the body of the car. Such auto-styling is applied to the sides or hood, to both sides or only to one. While driving, such long stickers give the car swiftness and additional attractiveness.
• Bright lines of different colors, parallel to each other. Such stickers-stripes on a car, passing through the entire car, are often chosen by cheerful and cheerful people.
• Transverse or oblique vectors. Becomes a door or hood decoration.
• Preferring all things delicate and feminine, ladies decorate their cars with vector stickers with flowers or other similar patterns running along the body.

Longitudinal strips

To decorate the car, you can choose one thing or do a comprehensive styling.

Who chooses sticker stripes

More often, owners of sports models turn to such tuning. Professionals do this so that the car is visible on the track and different from other crews participating in the competition. Fans, using sports stripes as stickers on cars, seek to attract attention.

In a big city, car styling sometimes becomes an assistant to company representatives. Stickers-strips on the car body in this case contain advertising that attracts others. This is a profitable option: the costs are minimal, and the number of views is huge.

Hood stickers

For some drivers, stickers on the hood of a car made of stripes of different colors are a way to stand out, to show individuality. And also protect the car from theft: thanks to the decals, transport is easier to find for road and other services.

There are also those who stick wide films to protect the body from damage or hide defects that have appeared (scratches, peeling paint).

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The best materials for stickers

For tuning a car, it is desirable to use a polymer vinyl film, which is easy to stick and lasts a long time. After removing such auto-styling, there are no traces left on the body.

The German company ORAFOL has become the leader in the manufacture of high-quality vinyl PVC film. Stickers-stripes made from the materials it produces last up to 5-7 years and, unlike airbrushing, protect the body.

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