Gotcha. This is my current predicament. I want some new wheels but it's a big expense if I am uncertain how long I'm going to keep the car. I know I can sell the wheels later but I know I'd take a big hit. I want forged cf barrels so I'm looking at $20k. That's the cost of a freaking decent used car!!
My Exosheild was flawless, my Stek Dyno Flex had bad distortion.
No distortion with Exoshield. I don't even notice that it's there.
I notice a little bit of distortion with the Stek DYNOflex, but not enough to bother me.
It wasn't enough for me to take it off, but it did bother me for awhile. If I was going to keep the car, I would have taken it off though.
Last Rally I did in Oct, a rock broke my windshield (unprotected) in my F from a GT3 throwing rocks. Hit it going 150-155. Was literally like a bullet hitting it. Cost me $9xx for a new one. Will never do a rally again without full frontal PPF and windshield protected.
Dynoflex does have some distortion. My installer said that if the car is a garage queen it won't "bake" all the way. He showed me his F150 that has it and sits in the Florida sun all the time and there is zero distortion. He offered to take it off and refund me if I wasn't happy but I'd rather have the protection and some distortion than no protection. When I do park the car for long periods outside I do face the windshield to the sun in case it helps like he said.
Think it was like $499 but if I recall depending on the place it's in the $400-600 range. Well worth the protection!!
Why wouldn't you? I'd especially want to PPF the gloss black plastic at the front, as it's likely going to get chewed up by stones otherwise.
I not extensively familiar with PPF. I just know when you talk to installers as to why its so much more than wrap, they say its more difficult to put on. And many of the PPF installers dont even wrap edges. So, with the intricate little crevices, etc in the front bumper, I wasnt sure they could do it to where it looks good.
If you like it, do it. You worry too much, tbh.
Its more like I dont keep cars very long and I know from previous sports cars I had that were wrapped, they were harder to sell because 50% of buyers don't necessarily like a wrap, especially when changing the color. This technically would not be a wrap as it would be PPF but still would be changing original color.
If your car is white, I can't imagine you'd shrink the pool of potential buyers any more than a gloss white car would, by putting on satin ppf.
My very good ppf installer says that the Y pieces will be extremely difficult but doable. However he recommends wrapping them in whatever texture they come from factory - if you have gloss, use clear ppf and if you have matte finish then wrap in XPEL stealth.
I received exactly the same information from the installer. If you have matte plastic, best option would be to paint it gloss, then cover in clear PPF. Seemed the outcome to cover the matte pieces in gloss XPEL would leave several areas exposed in matte due to relief cuts. Probably wouldn't be able to see it unless you get up close, but personally I wouldn't want it to not look right.
Looks good but it looks like your gloss parts are left glossy
