PPF questions to ask an installer
06-06-2022, 10:49 AM
#16
Rennlist Member
@lowbee What are you doing about paint correction? Is the shop also doing a complete paint correction prior to installation of the PPF? If so, there are additional questions you want to ask regarding what they plan to do. Also, I would want to inspect the car after the paint correction has been done and prior to the installation of the PPF to approve what they have done. If they are not doing paint correction, you want to find out how they are going to prep the car for PPF. Remember, once the PPF is installed, all the existing paint flaws and rock chips are sealed in and you will have to live with the condition of the paint as it is. Even if the car is going directly from the dealership to PPF, it is probably going to require paint correction.
06-09-2022, 08:25 PM
#17
Burning Brakes
Check with high end vehicle dealers in your area, Porsche, Ferrari, MB, RR, Bentley and others, where they send their customer’s cars to have PPF installed.
06-10-2022, 12:29 AM
#18
Drifting
If the shop plans on disassembly here is what you could ask.
What service are you using to figure out how to disassemble vehicles with minimum risk to damaging parts? (They should have something. An example would be Alldata. When a tech at my shop takes a car apart he's not familiar with he'll often have a cm thick stack of procedures, and stuff still gets broken)
What happens if something breaks on disassembly? (If they say they never break anything they are lying. Some stuff is literally designed to break and labeled as one time use. fasteners, trim, tail light gaskets, some marker lights, badges (definitely an expensive cost for our cars), somethings entire rocker mouldings are not designed to be reused. Depends on the vehicle.)
Do you replace one time use fasteners? (might help if they know you're aware not everything is reusable on every car)
Is recalibration of components that lose their calibration by being disconnected included in your price or is that an additional cost? (not really a factor for our cars either, but definitely a problem on a number of other cars. This can end up costing 4 figures)
Do you have any techs that are ticketed (autobody or mechanic, so they had some education how how stuff disassembles and were not just were unleashed on people's cars to figure stuff out without any direction)?
What service are you using to figure out how to disassemble vehicles with minimum risk to damaging parts? (They should have something. An example would be Alldata. When a tech at my shop takes a car apart he's not familiar with he'll often have a cm thick stack of procedures, and stuff still gets broken)
What happens if something breaks on disassembly? (If they say they never break anything they are lying. Some stuff is literally designed to break and labeled as one time use. fasteners, trim, tail light gaskets, some marker lights, badges (definitely an expensive cost for our cars), somethings entire rocker mouldings are not designed to be reused. Depends on the vehicle.)
Do you replace one time use fasteners? (might help if they know you're aware not everything is reusable on every car)
Is recalibration of components that lose their calibration by being disconnected included in your price or is that an additional cost? (not really a factor for our cars either, but definitely a problem on a number of other cars. This can end up costing 4 figures)
Do you have any techs that are ticketed (autobody or mechanic, so they had some education how how stuff disassembles and were not just were unleashed on people's cars to figure stuff out without any direction)?