A colour change for a Faro car — satin, matte, a colour-flip film or a clean dechrome — is 25 minutes away at the JustCars studio in Almancil. Wraps here are fitted with panels off and edges wrapped around, checked at 30 days, and covered by a one-year manufacturer warranty from that inspection; a full colour change typically lands at €3,500–4,000.
The quality of a colour change shows where nobody photographs it: at the edges. Here, panels, handles and lights come off where the design demands it, edges wrap around the panel and out of sight, and recesses are worked patiently rather than stretched — the WRAP Institute-certified discipline that keeps corners down through Algarve summers.
A full colour change typically lands at €3,500–4,000 and spends about a week in the studio with proper preparation; partials and a clean dechrome sit well below that. The exact number is agreed after seeing the car and the chosen film — and the car waits its turn in a closed, insured studio about 25 minutes from Faro.
“I judge a wrap the way a tailor judges a jacket — turn it inside out. If the edges are wrapped around the panel and the recesses sat down without tension, the colour will still look intentional in year three.”
About a week in the studio, fitted panels-off, 30-day check-up included.
Roof, accents or a clean dechrome — well below a full wrap, priced after seeing the car.
The new colour plus self-healing chip armour — priced next to vinyl so the use case decides.
Final scope and price are confirmed at inspection — these are honest public anchors, not teaser rates.
For a car that commutes the A22 daily, the honest first question isn't which colour — it's which material. Vinyl changes how the car looks. Colour PPF changes how it looks and adds a self-healing armour layer against stone chips — at a different price point.
We fit both, so the advice isn't a sales funnel: we put both numbers on your car and let the use case decide. Motorway-heavy cars often end up in colour PPF; shorter-cycle restyles usually take vinyl. Either way, you choose from physical samples held against your own paint — not from a colour on a screen.
The installation doesn't end at handover. For the first two weeks the wrap isn't washed while the adhesive settles; on day 30 the car comes back for a check-up — edges, recesses, stress points — and from that inspection runs a one-year manufacturer warranty. It's a process, not a line on an invoice.
The proof lives in the portfolio: a camo G-Class, a matte BMW M4 and a grey-to-bronze Lamborghini among the recent work. Faro sits outside the free 15 km radius, so collection is arranged on request — or drop the car on the N125 run and collect it a week later wearing a different colour.
Compare process, not distance: panels off before film goes on, edges wrapped around the panel, a 30-day check-up and a one-year manufacturer warranty running from that inspection. Choose by those points wherever you wrap.
On motorway cars the honest answer is often colour PPF: the same new colour plus self-healing armour against stone chips. We fit both, so we'll put both numbers on your car before you decide.
Yes: send the car and the character you want — satin, matte, gloss, colour-flip — on WhatsApp, and we prepare physical samples for a single visit, held against your own paint.
Car + what you need on WhatsApp — real options with real numbers.
