Vehicle wraps · Columbus, Ohio
Wrap it now.
Peel it in five years.
Paint’s still factory.
That is the argument for vinyl over a respray: a color change you can take back. Full wraps, partial wraps, chrome delete and carbon fiber, installed in an indoor bay on Trabue Road.
What you are buying
A wrap is not paint. It is film.
Colored vinyl, laid over your factory paint one panel at a time, tucked into the edges and cut on the car. Nothing is sprayed. Nothing is sanded. The factory paint stays underneath, untouched. That is why people wrap instead of respray — a new color this week, the original color back whenever you want it, and the vehicle’s history stays clean when you sell it.
Vinyl will not repair paint. It does not fill a dent. It does not hide rust, and covering corrosion does not stop it. A deep scratch reads straight through the film. Film over a damaged panel is still a damaged panel. We walk the vehicle with you before any deposit and tell you what needs correcting first, or which panels we will not wrap.
How much of the car
“Wrap” covers five different jobs. Only the first is a full colour change.
- Full wrapEvery painted panel on the outside of the car. Ask any quote whether the door jambs and the hood shut are included — usually they are not.On this page
- Partial wrapRoof, hood, a stripe, the top half. A colour change on the panels people see first, at a fraction of a full wrap.See the page →
- Chrome deleteWindow trim, badges, grille surround. Gloss or satin black over the brightwork. The smallest job on this list and the largest visible change on an older car.See the page →
- Carbon fiber accentsRoof, mirror caps, spoiler, interior trim. Textured film, cut on the car.On this page
- Vans, trucks, fleetYour logo and your number, sized to be read from the next lane.See the page →
Finishes
Choose the finish first. The right-hand column is the one that matters in year four.
Colours off this bay’s own floor. Every swatch is sampled from the photograph beside it — the colour you are looking at is film we installed, on a customer’s car, not a manufacturer’s render.
| Finish | What it is | Life in Ohio |
|---|---|---|
| Gloss | Reads as paint from ten feet away. The easiest finish to live with and to wash. | 5–7 yrs |
| Satin | The finish most people mean when they say matte. Soft sheen, no glare. | 5–7 yrs |
| Matte | Dead flat, no reflection. It shows fingerprints, and it is never waxed. | 4–6 yrs |
| Carbon fiber | A textured weave with real relief, not a printed pattern. Roof, mirrors, spoiler, trim. | 4–6 yrs |
| Color shift / chrome | The most expensive films on this list and the shortest-lived. Plan the removal at the end of the range. | 2–3 yrs |
Those are the film manufacturers’ ratings, adjusted for Ohio. A garage-kept vehicle sits at the top of the range. A vehicle parked outside off 270 all winter sits at the bottom — sun and road salt both shorten film life. We give you the year to book the removal, because film left well past its rated life becomes brittle and comes off in pieces rather than sheets.
Paint and removal
“Does the wrap damage the paint when it comes off?”
No. It shields it. For five years the film takes the sun, the contamination and the brushes at the drive-through wash instead of your clear coat. Removed on schedule, those panels come back better than the untouched paint next to them.
“Then why do removals go wrong?”
Two causes, and both are installation decisions. One: film over a cheap respray — the adhesive holds that respray better than the respray holds the car, and it lifts with the film. Two: leaving the wrap on years past its rated life. We check the paint before we quote and we book the removal.
What it costs.
We do not publish a wrap price here. A wrap is priced by the vehicle, not by the job. A Cybertruck is not a Civic. Two doors are not four. Deep body lines, aftermarket bumpers, chrome that has to come off first, paint that needs correcting first: those are hours on the film, and the hours are the number. A figure quoted over the phone without the year, make and model is an estimate, not a price.
Call for a number on your vehicle. Give us the year, make and model and we will price the car you own rather than a category. Ask which payment options are currently available before you book; provider terms are confirmed separately.
Before you call, What it costs to wrap a car walks through what moves the number.
The one price we do publish
Tint is priced by tier, and the figure is published:
From $299
Ceramic Grade A, all around, regular-size vehicle
All around means every window except the windshield.
Tint prices →Wraps out of this bay
All the work →
Common questions
- Does a car wrap damage your paint?
- No — it shields it. Factory paint under a wrap comes off cleaner than the panels around it. The risk is not the vinyl, it is what sits under the vinyl: film laid over a cheap respray can lift that respray with it on the way out. We check every panel before we quote, and we tell you which ones we will not wrap.
- How long does a car wrap last in Ohio?
- Five to seven years for gloss and satin on a garage-kept vehicle. Three to five if it parks outside all year. Chrome and color-shift films are the short ones — two or three summers. Ohio sun and winter road salt both shorten film life.
- How much does it cost to wrap a car in Columbus?
- We price wraps by the vehicle, not by the service, so there is no flat number to publish here. Panel count, body lines, the condition of the paint and how much chrome has to come off first all decide it. Call 614-822-0494 with the year, make and model and we will price your vehicle. Ask which payment options are currently available before booking.
- Can you wrap only part of the car?
- Yes. Roof, hood, a racing stripe, chrome delete on the trim, carbon fiber on the mirror caps. A partial wrap costs a fraction of a full wrap.
Get a price on your vehicle.
Bring it in and we will look at the paint with you, or call and describe it. Either way the price is for the car in front of us, not for a car like yours.
5220 Trabue Road, Suite D, Columbus, OH 43228
West side, off Trabue Road. Hilliard, Dublin, Powell, Plain City, Upper Arlington, Worthington all drive in for it. Every wrap is installed indoors in a climate-controlled bay — vinyl does not lay down clean in dust or cold.