Thanks for the feedback. - color is Carmine red. I’ll check what looks better and cost difference.

My car is a 2012.5, low mileage, seems probably garaged for over 90% of its time, and I’m imagining the PPF has been on since nearly new.

Is there a “remove by” date on these things? Because the film itself (a little peeling on some lower corners, a couple unnoticeable imperfections where it did its job) seems perfect, so I really don’t want to pay thousands or whatever it costs to remove perfectly good film, just to replace it.

The pre-cut on mine seems great, btw, so I’d recommend that route.

Personally it really depends on how **** you are about your car and how much of a perfectionist you are I guess. First time I PPF covered a car I went the pre cut route. Edges are exposed, they catch cleaner or polish, dirt etc... since then have always gone custom. I prefer the edges wrapped and with less exposure to peeling or catching dirt. Cost was not astronomically more but in my opinion the difference in look is.
Your money, your call. Pick the best installer you can find they are more important that the film you choose. Had Xpel Ultimate on 2 cars, went with Suntek Premium for my TTS, I think the clarity is better and the installers like working with it.

The edges on precut sheets will catch a lot of dirt. My car had the entire front end done in precut sheets when i bought it. After 4K miles it looked like ****. The first thing I did when I got the car home was to remove all of the ppf bc it looked so bad.

Weird. No issue for me (maybe because my car is a darker blue?).

My cars seemingly pre cut hood wrap DOES wrap around the inner inside of the frunk. The only place I can even make out lines on the hood (didn’t even notice it for months) is at the very top (toward the windshield) it has to stop before the hood ends, to coincide with the shutline. Is this not normal for pre cut hood wraps (wrapping mostly fully around the hood, curling into the frunk)?