{"id":178,"date":"2024-05-28T03:20:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T03:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/questions-about-lettering\/can-your-vinyl-lettering-be-clear-coated-or-painted-if-so-what-is-the-procedure\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T13:36:32","slug":"can-your-vinyl-lettering-be-clear-coated-or-painted-if-so-what-is-the-procedure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/questions-about-lettering\/can-your-vinyl-lettering-be-clear-coated-or-painted-if-so-what-is-the-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Can your vinyl lettering  be clear coated or painted? If so, what is the procedure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as the clear coat goes: The manufacturer does not recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, everybody does it. I have been telling body shops for years not to clear coat over stripes and graphics. Hardly ever though is there a problem &#8211; when they do mess up, the clear coat &#8220;pops&#8221; off the vinyl. Most body shops never have a problem. But I don&#8217;t know how they do it.<\/p>\n<p>Have another question about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signspecialist.com\/decals\/decals.html\">decals<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signspecialist.com\/signs\/signs.html\">signs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signspecialist.com\/lettering\/lettering.html\">lettering<\/a>,<br \/>\nor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signspecialist.com\/stripes\/fastnfurious\/fastnfurious.htm\">stripes<\/a>? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as the clear coat goes: The manufacturer does not recommend it. That being said, everybody does it. I have been telling body shops for years not to clear coat over stripes and graphics. Hardly ever though is there a problem &#8211; when they do mess up, the clear coat &#8220;pops&#8221; off the vinyl. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/469"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}