When it comes to bumpers, it’s essential to choose a tape that offers high visibility, durability, and ease of application. It is also very important to select a reflective film that is pliable and will conform over curves, dips, and valleys. Given these considerations, we have two recommendations, ORALITE V98 Conformable Prismatic Reflective Tape and Oralite 5650 Rapid Air Engineer Grade. They are both conformable films, and easy to trim and apply.
Key Features of ORALITE V98 Conformable Prismatic Reflective Tape:
- High Reflectivity: Oralite V98 boasts excellent reflectivity, ensuring maximum visibility even at great distances.
- Durability: Designed to withstand adverse weather conditions, it’s suitable for both clear and rainy/foggy weather.
- Flexibility: The tape is conformable, meaning it can adhere well to the compound curves and uneven surfaces often found on bumpers. Tape can be pressed into curves to conform it, but should not be over stretched. Warm with hair dryer to soften film while installing. Avoid stretching,
- Great Adhesion: Offers strong adhesion to ensure it stays in place over time, even with the bumps and impacts that bumpers might face.
Key Features of ORALITE 5650 Rapid Air Engineer Grade Reflective Tape:
- Good Reflectivity: This tape boasts good reflectivity, ensuring great visibility at moderate distances.
- Durability: Designed to withstand adverse weather conditions, it’s suitable for both clear and rainy/foggy weather.
- Advanced Flexibility: 5650 RA tape is very conformable, meaning it can adhere well to the compound curves and uneven surfaces often found on bumpers. Heating this material makes it very pliable and allows it to stretch and conform. 5650 RA will stretch and conform more than V98.
- Great Adhesion: Offers strong adhesion to ensure it stays in place over time, even with the bumps and impacts that bumpers might face.
- Rapid Air Backing: 5650 RA features a Rapid Air backing that allows you to press or squeegee out trapped air bubbles via small air chanels in the adhesive backing. Makes installation much easier.
For a detailed specification sheet that outlines all the technical aspects of the ORALITE V98 Conformable Reflective Tape or Oralite 5650 Rapid Air Engineer, you can visit the following link: Oralite V98 Spec Sheet OR Oralite 5650 Rapid Air Spec Sheet
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Pictured below is an example of a very good attempt to stripe a bumper using a non flexible polycarbonate reflective tape. You can see buckling and cracking in the design. This is from the inflexibility of the tape used, which is made for flat surfaces only. If Oralite V98 or 5650 Rapid Air material had been used, the result would have been much better. V98 and 5650 RA will not crack or buckle due to their pliability and ability to conform to uneven surfaces to some extent.
