Quote Originally Posted by Anonymous. View Post
If departments want black/whites so bad, why not employ or teach employees to vinyl wrap?

I have vinyl wrapped an entire car before with zero experience. It isn't difficult, just time consuming. A dedicated person (or two) that can wrap two white doors and a roof should not be very expensive. Vinyl is basically free when you buy a large roll - the cost of 'vinyl wrap jobs' is all in the labor. I would personally wrap patrol cars on the side, for a department if one was to need someone to do so for a fee less than vinyl shops.
We looked into that but after speaking with graphics shops determined that the paint was the best way to go. The quality would be better and as told by the graphics guys, the paint would be damaged anyway when we removed the vinyl since the cars are take homes and have a ten year service life. If an agency hot seats their cars and runs them 24/7 requiring a constant rotation of the fleet I think the vinyl wrap fits the role better. Long term, paint.