944T89

If your 944 was being repainted (Red) and cost was not an issue...would you put the Stone guard films back on ?

Thanks,
Will
1989 944 Turbo

V2Rocket

rather have those beat up and replaceable than beat up paint around the wheel wells.

ritzblitz

I think the car looks better without them.

jtsporsche

true

+1

remember now, a new paint job will never be as durable as a factory one. so rock chips will happen more frequently and be more noticeable.
i dont know how much abuse the fenders take from rocks however

DarylJ

Yes. I just painted mine. It's already getting dinged up where the guards should be. They knew what they were doing when they put them there.

Now that my paint is cured, I'm deciding whether to go for clear ones or go retro (and stock) and put black ones back on.

DarylJ

I know we have paint gurus around here that can confirm or deny this, but I'm pretty sure that's not true.

_MY_ paint job won't be as durable as the factory job, even though I used better paint than what was available at the time, because I did it in a home-rigged-up-booth.

A "properly" painted car, done in a real booth with force drying, proper air flow, proper application, and good, modern paint, all done after proper prep ought to be better than what they could have done 20 years ago. Especially if you use some of the things specifically designed for durability - there was a DuPont ChromaPremier (the paint system I used) clear coat that was slightly less shiny but designed to be chip/scratch resistant. It was ridiculously expensive, but the paint shop had some that they couldn't get rid of, so they were going to sell it to me for the same price as the standard clear. I would have bought it too, but it's force dry only, and I simply couldn't justify buying IR drying lamps for my garage

V2Rocket

need to find a huge autoclave to bake my paint on..

Van

100% absolutely put them back on. Fresh ones are so clear, you hardly see them.

And they really aren't that much money.

harrisonrick

they came in black?

Van

White 911s had them in black - don't know about white 944...

Whisper

Pull all the body panels and have them individually powdercoated :P

DarylJ

My car was/is Garnet Red Metallic. I'm not sure whether mine were factory or not, but, if they were, they had been on there a LONG time, and there was no sign of clear ones underneath.

As someone else mentioned, they did come in black on some 911s of the time, so I guess its possible it was an aftermarket thing some people had done.

Potomac-Greg

I replaced mine last year. They're invisible when new, and they do work.

jtsporsche

a professional painter told me that the booths in the factories get much hotter during the baking process than your normal, smaller shop booths (real ones not heat lamps in a garage) thus, allowing the paint to cure faster and harder.

wolfie308

Had my sills done recently, both sides and front resprayed and new clear stone guards fitted. The old original ones were grubby and pitted and lifting a bit with grim showing round the edges of all. The new ones as said, on Guards' Red, look vitually invisible...highly recommended.