Originally Posted by detansinn

I’ve got about 30k miles on my C4S. Given that Aventurine Green is such a dynamic color, I didn’t want to risk losing that depth with PPF. So, I went with paint correction and ceramic coating. It’s held up great and the car looks amazing. The paint finish remains completely swirl and scratch free. I only hand wash, two bucket method, and do all of the detailing myself as a matter of therapy.

With that, I knew that there would be a couple of chips along the way. After two years of all season driving, it’s clear that the car isn’t a chip magnet. The annotated Porsche image below highlights all of the chips on the car, none larger than the dot that you would make with a pen. A detailer would spot them, but the average person wouldn’t notice them unless I pointed them out. The surprising part is that so many are at the rear of the car — something to consider if you were just planning to put PPF on the front of your 911.



Chips at the front of the car

• Near the right headlight, tiny mark left by a bolt hitting the car at speed.
• Hood was hit by a small screw that bounced off of the hood and onto the windshield
• Rock chip outside the left headlight

Windshield

• Small benign chip near the top of the windshield, invisible from the inside.
• Last week, a lug nut from the opposing lane hit the windshield so hard that I thought for sure it would break. I got lucky, because it glanced off the windshield leaving two tiny marks after I cleaned off the black mark that it left. I don’t want to do that one again, but I am happy that it hit the windshield instead of something metal/paint.

Rear of the car

• A couple of chips landed within a centimeter above the factory chip guard on the passenger side, one of those is just above it. Given the abuse that the factory chip guard takes, I am glad that it is there, but if it was slightly taller, I would have two less chips. 😜
• Top of the right fender picked up a chip small enough that I was in denial for a while that it was there. It’s most obvious when the car is clean.
• Driver’s side rear fender recently picked up a chip towards the rear of the panel.
• Back of the car picked up a rock chip. I didn’t expect to find one there, but from other cars, it can happen.

Additional notes

• These are all tiny. At some point, I could have them all addressed. A good chip repair guy would make quick work of them.
• As mentioned above, most them are at the back of the car. If I was doing PPF on a 992, I would do the whole car or not bother at all.
• Car is driven on a wide variety of roads and speeds. It’s been on the pandemic autobahn 😉, seeing sustained high rates of speed over very long distances.
• Porsche is intentional where it puts black plastic. SPASM splitter, front fascia, sills, and lower mirror trim, clearly take hits, but they’re black plastic which hides the impacts. I have the standard front fascia, side sills, and mirror trim.

Originally Posted by PHX

Only 14 washes? That's weak, you need to step up your washing game.