Wow that looks awesome! Totally forgot about non matte colors for 3M slipped my mind. Reminds me of the movie Taxi for queen latifa. When they had he 7-series wrapped in blue while was originally red :p

Yeah, I should have noted that the M3 in the photo was just one I grabbed online and not a car that was wrapped with the 3M film. I was just trying to show how similar the color of the wrap was to the LSB paint.

Just got a quote for the above 3M Intense Blue film installed, $1,900. Not quite as cheap over here I guess.

United colors of BMW....thanks to the world of car wraps

Was this quote from 3M or their certified installer? That quote is on high side. The highest I have been quoted for X5 is $1500 by an installer. The material is between $250-$500 depending on car size. Its mostly labor intensive job.
Avery and Oracal are 3M competitors. You can get a quote from them too.
Avery
Oracal
http://carwraps.net/wp-content/uploa...02/image01.jpg

Oracal matt CF
http://www.vividracing.com/forums/ga...eet_angled.jpg
http://www.vividracing.com/forums/ga...weave-side.jpg

Below is pic of Gustav's(ex-M5board owner) M3 sedan. He put Oracal Azure film on his g-power tuned M3. Looks almost like Monte Carlo blue.

The nice thing about a wrap is that it is non-permanent and the cost compared to a proper full respray is incomparable.

Gustav's E90 M3 looks great!

Thanks, I will look into that. The quote I got was from a 3M certified installer, which I located on the 3M website. The quote was broken down as follows.

3M Scotchprint Wrap Film Series 1080-G47 Gloss Intense Blue @ $1000.00
7% Sales tax@ $70.00
Installation @ $900.00

Total @ $1970.00

and yes, that M3 does look good.

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Does anyone have any photos of these cars with the doors open? I'm curious if the prices quoted include covering the door jams, trunk, etc. I imagine most people would not be content to open the doors, trunk or hood and see the original color contrasted with the wrap.

I thought about this as well. I wouldn't really like seeing a different color when opening doors, etc. The quote I listed abve did not include wrapping the door jams, trunk lid, hood, etc. Simply what you see on the exterior of the car.