Audi A4 STW 58182 decals

[jhellman(2)]

Hello,

anyone has a scan of Audi A4 STW decals. I bought this car as used one, and the body is wrong color and most of original decals are missing. Need to make new ones..

Help is appreciated!

best regards,

Juha

[zaraf]

Hi,

Sorry, i don't have the scans so can't help much. Just wanted to know if you wanna share how to make the decals.

regards,

Faraz

[jhellman(2)]

Hi,

Making decals is pretty easy once you have a proper scan. Just scale it to correct size, print on decal paper (available for deskjets and colorlasers), for what kind of papers are available just see www.decalpaper.com

I use colorjet and with good scan the quality is like original.

If you do have ALPS printer, you can print white, and you only need clear decal papers. However, since I don ot have one and they are not too common after all, you need both white background decal paper and clear.

Use clear for ones that need to be see through or are odd shapes (=hard to cut precisely). Use white decal paper on such decals that need to have white or on any decal that will be applied on dark surface (dark surfaces will shine through and make clear decals darker, unless they are black).

If there is no good scan, then it gets more complicated. I use vector drawing programs (Illustrator, Xara X..) to draw decals (using poor scan as a model for shapes and colors). This takes time, but produces very sharp decals that are easy to scale without losing crispness.

Alternative way to remake decals is to suft the net in hunt for those "rally stickers" in jpg format, it is pretty easy to find "mobil", "valvoline" etc.. But some are almost impossible to find. And these generally are never too big to make good printouts at correct size.

Happy decalling.

Anyone? Audi STW decal scan?

Yours,

Juha

[zaraf]

Hi,

Thanks for the explaination. I might try it some day.

Good luck and happy hunting for those decal scans.

regards,

Faraz