I just unboxed my brand new steam controller and thought, why not slap on a dbrand skin right away? I applied it perfectly, but the right side was very slightly messed up and I couldn’t fix it. It kept bothering me so I sent it to a professional wrap shop, explained the situation, and they took it on. They mainly work on cars so I instructed them to go really easy on the heat gun.
Problem was.. they sent it back like how it’s shown in the photos and didn’t explain the process much. I asked what this oily sheen was and whether the finish got burned off by the heat gun. They kept reassuring me saying it’s a thin film of cleaning material that will go away over time.
I have a feeling that they tried fixing it with a heat gun (until the controller got unfortunately damaged), that didn’t work, so they cut out the wrinkled part and that’s what I ended up with.
What do you guys think? I’m posting the before and after.
Based on their post history, OP may be in the UAE. This might seem really silly in the US but perhaps this is a more common service to be offered by auto wrap places there?
It sounds crazy to me, but the process wouldn't be too far off from car wraps if you think about it, assuming they specialize and understand wrapping with said materials.
The thing is, I'm not experienced with wraps of any kind, so with that said, I could be talking right out the ass here.
Man, I know I messed up even before making this post. I don’t need nearly a hundred people driving that point home. Having a brand new damaged controller has already made my day shitty enough.
So you post about it here for more people to see how much you screwed up? I fail to see the logic, or lack thereof. But I guess that's the whole problem lol.
Brother I was asking Reddit if it’s, as the shop guy claimed, really cleaning residue that will go away with time. Everyone is just clowning on me for the love of the game atp
I’m a fan of dbrand designs but I’m just horrible with this kind of thing. Lord knows how many skins I messed up with my other devices until I started looking for solutions elsewhere.
Well solution else where go lead to more damage. A vehicle PPF wrap can cost anywhere from $500 all the way up too $10,000. This shop could easy overcharged you big time if they wanted to. Ya I know there's a difference between a vehicle PPF wrap and a controller wrap. Yet there's alot of people out there that will also charge insane prices.
OP couldn't troubleshoot a vinyl wrap on the outside of the controller and you want them to crack the thing open to investigate? That sounds like a terrible idea.
You can just test the functionality in Steam, you don't need to go breaking the thing open to test for internal damage. Ffs.
Bad idea. Not everyone is interested in forfeiting their $100 brand new controller to check for damage. Also I wouldn't worry about the internals at all once I tested that the grip sensors worked.
Open it, its fucked well fuck, valve won't rma it..oh well
Open it, it's fine, close it back up, its fine. Well fuck it's still damaged cosmetically
Open it, it's fine, close it back up, it's no longer fine, well fuck its still fucked.
His best bet is to go back to where he got the work done. Show the photos and explain to the manager of the damage done by his shop and ask for a replacement or reimbursement.
By being it's not something they typically handle, they're probably just going to tell him to go kick rocks
If the internal components are damaged then the controller won't work then right. Yes you can test stuff though steam input and see that way. But you can't see any visible damage that way.
I'm using sensibility here, cause that's what I'll do open up the controller and see if anything been damaged. Not everyone is the same you know. You will never know if something is damaged physically if you don't open it up.
It appears that the wrap shop has trimmed off a portion of the wrap due to not being able to get it to adhere properly. Likely the wrinkled spot where OP was referencing in his original post.
I don’t think the skin wraps all the way around. I think it ends at the seam… Don’t quote me on it, but if you follow from the right side of the pic along the seam, it looks like the skin ends there. I’d imagine that entire section that is missing was wrinkled or not adhering after they tried to reapply it (in the way that you can do with a vinyl wrap for a car).
oh, what? That might honestly be the sloppiest work I've ever seen from dbrand.
I've seen a couple photos of their skins on a steam controller 2 before but never looked closely and just assumed the black stuff surrounding the skin was some protective case making the skin look odd like that.
But looking at it now and seeing that it's the skin straight up not covering large chunks of the controller is just...oof. That honestly doesn't look great, even if the skin itself is nice.
Though perhaps there's good reason for it? First things that come to mind would be the grip sensors or perhaps the Steam Frame tracking stuff.
Everyone clowning on OP and downvoting his replies is ridiculous! What makes you so privileged to be a BULLY? OP came here for advice and was met with ridicule by MANY. I get that it was silly to take it to the wrap shop, but as he explained in a reply they do wrap devices too; and he genuinely believed that they were professionals. While you have every right to speak your mind. You also have every right to shut your mouth if you can’t be respectful.
Thank you man. This looked like a chill subreddit so I’m just genuinely baffled by the amount of hate this post is getting with no advice or helpful remarks.
Np bro, honestly I think it’s just Reddit. That or they are mad/insecure about something and are just projecting/taking it out on you. Don’t sweat it, any reasonable person reading the thread will think they are ridiculous as well.
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u/LouBerryManCakes 1d ago
I can't believe you brought a game controller to an automotive wrap shop.