Just never heard of this so don’t know anything about it. Plus, what is cost?
PPF or NOT?
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I've been running it on my daily for 4 years. It cost me about $2500, but was more expensive because I did a full color change, with heavy pearl.
Here's the same, or a similar product, done on this Porsche. Obviously they went for a full color change, and wanted it absolutely perfect, so did much more panel disassembly then most place would.
You do realize a majority of the cars having ppf added are new cars. A new Lambo is no different. It’s a car.
Yup. But might not be worth it for me. I don’t keep cars very long and like to have a new ride every couple years. I already got $10k wheels I’m putting on so to spend another $10k on PPF might not we worth it. That is me and everyone is different. It would be an added bonus when selling but would never get close to your money out of that. Plus I will have 2000 miles on the car in 2 years. Was planning to wrap roof but someone here said that isn’t possible which surprises me as many guys say they are going to do that. Maybe I will just do the front bumper, half hood, side mirrors thing in PPF and be done with it. On the roof, see what that is like when it arrives.
I'd agree with. PPF the entire car - wrap edges (aka 'tucked'). The color still "pops," especially if you do ceramic coating over the PPF - Xpel makes this product and it's amazing. I have my entire 458 clear wrapped (Xpel ultimate plus) and subsequently coated with Fusion Plus. Truly an amazing combination. Highly recommend.
As for the paint correction required before hand, I personally think that's negotiable. For two reasons, 1) the glue/adhesive that is used to keep the film on fills most, if not all (nearly all) of the hairline swirls. They will not be visible once the PPF is on. And 2) the car will need to have some form of paint correction once the PPF is removed. It can be done at that time!
Either way, it's up to you!
As for the paint correction required before hand, I personally think that's negotiable. For two reasons, 1) the glue/adhesive that is used to keep the film on fills most, if not all (nearly all) of the hairline swirls. They will not be visible once the PPF is on. And 2) the car will need to have some form of paint correction once the PPF is removed. It can be done at that time!
Either way, it's up to you!
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Exosheild, it's made specifically for windshields. It has saved my windshield from some mega debris, on rallies and the interstate from semis.
There are a few others, but none of them are as good, imo.
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Another vote for exoshield.
How’s your experience with exoshield when you need to use the windshield wiper? I am considering to install that too
I have read several reviews on this and seems it is very thin and peels off easily. That is what I read on it.
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It does peel off easily, when you mean to peel it off, it won't peel off on its own, and it's thickness depends on how many coats your installer adds. Any decent installer is adding 7+ coats. The only time mine has been perforated, was when it got hit by goofball sized rocks/metal, or larger. And the paint underneath was still fine, even with my softish satin factory paint.
I have had absolutely no issues sitting behind vipers on 4+ hour rallies.
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Never had an issue. Granted, I really only ever use them when it's actually raining, or if I'm using the windshield washers. Mine held up for about 3 years and 20k miles, before I could start to see a tiny bit of delaminating, and replaced it. It tooks some major impacts, that would have cracked my windshield, without question.
So if someone were to PPF of the front end, like front bumper, hood, fenders, headlights, would it be a different color then the rest of the car? Seems hard to believe if you PPF the front with ceramic coating on the PPF, that it would not be any difference in color then rest of the car?
Only if the installer is skimping on layers.
Same, a delivery van hit and scraped down my wing mirror a few weeks back along the sharp leading edge. Even the guys who installed it didnt expect there to be no damage, but it was peeled off on Monday and the paint is absolutely perfect beneath.
Dont get me wrong, it has its pros and cons, as does normal PPF, its just you have to weigh it up for your own personal preference.
If you don’t keep it long then you don’t need full. You will not recoup the cost. But if not keeping long why spend on wheels?
May depend on color but I’ve never seen where the colors are different due to ppf. I wouldn’t worry about that.
Keeping factory wheels too so when comes time to sell, may not sell with aftermarket wheels
I had STEK DYNOflex installed on my windshield. Definitely worth the piece of mind to protect the glass from stone chips.
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Well said. At less than half the cost of PPF, for the same surface area, and the ability to buff and polish it like paint, I'd personally never choose PPF over it.
Agree. I have a chip in my Dynoflex that if I didn't have would have certainly pitted my windshield if not cracking it!!
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