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Old 07-22-2012, 06:55 PM
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Ok so I installed a clear bra on my black 991 bumper and half hood. So far, so good but I did notice 2 chips that are really small that have penetrated the clear bra I guess they are not perfect protection! Anyone else see a few blemished with a clear bra installed?

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I've always wondered about that. It's all good when you have "light hits" but what about a "hard hit?" I don't have it on my car, but took a bad one on the fender where it comes standard. It looks bad and the only way to fix it is to replace the entire thing. My bonnet has a lot of chips too, so I am very interested in a clear bra on my next car. Sorry, this doesn't answer your question which seems to be-to wrap or not to wrap.
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Originally Posted by spourreza
Ok so I installed a clear bra on my black 991 bumper and half hood. So far, so good but I did notice 2 chips that are really small that have penetrated the bumper I guess they are not perfect protection! Anyone else see a few blemished with a clear bra installed?
I've had the full coating on three of my four 911s and have never seen that.
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The front third of my car is covered and so far so good. It has protected the paint well (no chips) but it is harder to clean than paint.

I use the car on the track so easy to get lots of small and a few large chips and lots of black streaks coming up from the track. And it looks like waxed paint unless you look really close at the seams.

I would certainly do it again.
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Think its a function of my car being black which can show imperfections more clear? Surely if a rock hits the bumper hard enough, it will penetrate through, no? Or did installer just use very thin film which I doubt...

Granted this never happened on my silver 997.2 but that was silver which never showed an imperfections...
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My car is dark blue and regularly sees 100+ on the track but nothing has got through the film yet. But I'm sure the right rock could.

The ding in my exaust header from a big rock is a bummer for sure but film mould not have helped.



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