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I will throw in for the pro-PPF crowd that if anyone in here is from the Northeast and want a high quality job, I recommend Tiffany and Brett at All American Paint Protection in Rockville, MD. They did a fantastic job on an AMG C63 I had a few years back and I plan on using them again when my GTS is delivered later this fall/winter. They predominantly work on Porsches, Lambos, Ferraris, Audis, and Teslas and have a lot of experience!
I used to full wrap every vehicle that I purchased until I was told on one of my older vehicles that they would not remove the ppf to re-wrap it for fear of stripping the paint. After that incident, I no longer wrap my vehicles and, when I receive a pre-owned that's wrapped, I remove the wrap and ceramic coat it. I would rather drive the hell out of it and paint the piece or get a new part now. In addition, to echo some previous points, a full wrap is expensive and gets just as ugly after a number of tears or rock chips. It will be a re-occurring cost every 5-10 years. I think it only makes sense to wrap a car if you intend to keep it as a short term vehicle.
If you leave the plastic on your couch, wrap your car. It's all personal preference. I personally prefer it not wrapped or with ceramic coating. Waxing my car is very gratifying.
So with about 50 miles on odometer, I brought my car to Pepe at Super AutoShield ....did the whole car....pricey , but worth it. I picked up my car and went on a roadtrip. On my way home while doing over 80 MPH, a truck tire exploded in front of me in the lane to my right. A nice size piece of tire hit my car right in center of hood. I pulled in a gas station at next exit. it left that black mark. I wet my finger and touched it, and it looked like it would come right off. When I arrived at home I cleaned with windex and soft cloth. it came right off. no damage at all. 2nd photo is mark the way it looked in my garage. !st photo is after clean ( actually turned on an overhead light to make photo clearer, and it came out darker). I am happy , but to each his own. I have Suntek ceramic infused. Bugs barely stick to it. Hose them right off. I am an older gent and this works for me. And the GT Silver color never looks dirty. rgds
It’s a car, not a priceless work of art.
I don’t need PPF.
Wash weekly, high quality wax every quarter, and a good polish job about once per year.
If you don’t want rock chips, perhaps consider trailering it to your destination?
I never understand this argument.
People that treat cars like works of art, don't drive them. That's why they call them garage queens. Those are the cars that you see at cars and coffee and that get trailered to concurse events. They don't need PPF.
People that drive their cars, especially in a spirited manner, are the people that see value in PPF. Why? Because it's when you drive your car hard that you subject it to road debris kicked up by other cars.
Suggesting that if you don't like rock chips you trailer your car, especially when PPF exists, is nothing short of asinine, but you already know that.
I think a lot of it is location dependant. Here in Arizona if you don't get PPF your paint will get absolutely trashed.
you can literally get your paint chipped anywhere while driving it. If you don’t care about chips, sure save yourself $3k I guess, but no amount of wax will save you and touch up paint looks like shyt
I hate washing / waxing cars, I bought them to drive
you can literally get your paint chipped anywhere while driving it. If you don’t care about chips, sure save yourself $3k I guess, but no amount of wax will save you and touch up paint looks like shyt
I hate washing / waxing cars, I bought them to drive
Of course you can get chipped anywhere, but some places are worse than others.
Here its not just a few chips. It literally peppers your front end, rocker panels, fenders, etc. The car looks trashed in just a few thousand miles.
But I think we're saying the same thing... PPF is the way to go...
I hate washing / waxing cars, I bought them to drive
Same. I wash my cars like once a quarter. Maybe once a month at most during the rainy seasons. I drive each of them a few times a week and park them back in my garage. Between three cars and working full time+, I don't have time nor do I find enjoyment in detailing my cars myself. I get that for some that's their hobby. Great, happy for them. Personally, I'm glad for the availability of innovations like ceramic coating and PPF. It's a shame some have had their perceptions about PPF ruined by the stuff from like 20 years ago but times have changed. The product has changed. If you don't believe it fine. Enjoy your car your way. But saying stuff like the plastic couch analogies are just simply ignorant.
I don't wash or wax/ceramic my cars either for the same reason. I used to love spending time washing and detailing. Now that I'm older, I prefer to use my time driving.
Never seen any particular correlation between having or not having PPF, and driving or not driving your car. All comes down to personal preference, as it should.
Here's a story for why I have PPF. Driving home from Door County, a truck tire exploded in front of me, a 3-4' fragment was hit by the car directly in front of me which spit it out and hit my front passenger side.
It hit hard enough that it knocked my front splitter partially off, my Zunsport radiator grille completely off.
But, it only caused a few small scratches in the PPF with the paint underneath undamaged.
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