Signs or Paint on my Aluminum Chipper Body???

[NickfromWI]

Questions for the house: As some of you may know, we got this cool little chipper truck made out of aluminum. I love it. It bascially looks new still. Rust? What's that?



I've never had so much as a phone number sharpied on it for people to find us! I need to do it YESTERDAY. I can't decide: Should I have it painted light blue (our company colors) with the logo over it? or should I get a big sign riveted onto it? Maybe a sign approx the full size of the box.

If it was steel I would've painted it a long time ago. I'm just not sure how the aluminum handles paint.

Any thoughts?

love
nick

 

[sawman]

Wrap it?

 

[canadianclimber]

Agreed. Vinyl logo or wrap.

 

[NickfromWI]

I've never been a fan of vinyl. Looks great up front, but I images of letters falling off and things like that.

I never even considered wrapping it! Didn't even think that was possible. I'll make some calls tomorrow when I get home!

 

[sawinredneck]

Alum hates regular paint! Even prepped and primed properly, it's a short lived process. Powder coat works, but that's a single color. I agree with wrapping it.

 

[RopeArmour]

Vinyl on vinyl tarp
If you get cut out letters you can spray bomb as often as necessary

 

[RopeArmour]

Wraps pricey personally just the bus name with mb with the.com and couple American flags-sticker for colour and effect

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Wrap.

Signs won't last forever, but I've had good luck for a long time with mid grade vinyl on a less than ideal paint job.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Siding with the he wrap guys here.

 

[Fiddler]

I like the clean silver box. Sets the truck out to be noticed. Why not just do the doors?

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

A large TreeCareLA.com across the top. Seen over traffic.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Wrap it or keep it bare with a nice sign bolted on.

No paint.

 

[pigwot]

Nick, It's LA! - get the light and magic crowd to create a holographic-looking loop (.cgi?) that gets projected onto the bare aluminum sides and back, showing your crew working, and then morphs to the TreeCareLA logo/website/phone# and back to Oscar stuck in a date palm... uh, no, that would be me and back to the work scene.

Or, a wrap... the grandson of my mentor just started a business - he does targeted wraps and calls it 'carvertising'

 

[sotc]

Vinyl, my signs look good and if it gets scratched, just get another made up. Cheap. Paint sucks

 

[MasterBlaster]

Tell me about it. I used to paint A-7's...

 

[Mick!]

I like the clean silver box. Sets the truck out to be noticed. Why not just do the doors?

My thoughts exactly.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Not visible enough from a distance.

 

[Mick!]

Less is more.

 

[Peter]

If you like the shiny look get a chrome wrap with your logo etc printed on it.

 

[vharrison]

Beautiful truck! We are having our new trailer wrapped as I write. First one in the fleet, can't wait to see it. Just have fun exploring the options, it will look great either way!

 

[flushcut]

Vinyl for me.

 

[Raj]

wraps are popular up here...even if you want to change the colour of your truck!

 

[Peter]

I would go vinyl too, like my trailer.

 

[Mick!]

My tree reductions look natural as well, like they've been hit by a hurricane.

 

[sotc]

Purdy