im confused with your post, because all cars now use plastic headlight covers with an anti-fog coating. They use plastic now because the glass would crack and easily condensate which reduced light output and safety.

 

You are correct. I am wrong. Polycarbonate. Regardless, putting film over the headlight impacts the overall effectiveness of a lighting system. Admittedly, it may be minimal.

 

I got a couple quotes and starting to rethink this. The quotes I got were around $1800 - 2400! Talk about a Turbo TAX! The base model was quoted $650.

I e-mailed Suncoast and they told me the front lip in gloss is $1095. I think I'll just buy a new front lip when the time comes and cover the headlight/fog lights myself. Maybe a TechArt lip in the future.

 

$650 seems very good. And the base model is no sloth either when it can go 0-60 in just 5.4 seconds, in my view, and pretty decent in our speed limited roads. 🤔
Would you by any chance happen to know the residual on the base model?

 

Residual on PPF installation?

 

the last car I got with a 5 second 0-60 was a BMW M3. that was fast! in 1995.

all jokes aside, we know Porsche is conservative with their numbers.

 

I got quotes for total PPF on a Turbo: around 6k$ with XPel ultimate, including our 20% VAT (5k$ without VAT)
What is the price in you region?

 

Hell no, it's a Macan what will depreciate....it's no GT car or even 911.

 

The Porsche dealer here (UAE) has quoted me the equivalent of 5.4k$ for a full PPF of my Turbo.

 

To me, it’s not a matter of depreciation.
I just want to have a nice car during my 5 years of ownership. It seems that PPF is a good way to achieve that… but maybe I’m wrong?

 

You are right. If that is your priority and it fits within your budget, solely what you want — for PPF will keep your car looking better. A pock-marked front end from rock chip impacts is not desirable nor attractive. I definitely will be getting mine PPF’d — just as I have every vehicle of ours including our daily drivers for the last six vehicles.

It is your individual choice, not a forum pressure point from some who chose other than you do.

 

I thought we discussed this but maybe I read it on another forum that PPF would not be covered by insurance. So you save yourself from rock chips, but in the case of a fender bender, insurance wont pay to replace the PPF. Is it still worth getting?

 

You are correct PPF is not insurance covered. Ten years ago driving in heavy rain at 68 MPH on an interstate, a wood dining room chair fell over the tailgate of a pickup truck. We smashed into it (jersey barrier on one side, tractor trailer on the other) — into our pre-sold C6 Z06 Corvette that we were on our way to delivering. It hit the front corner, including the headlight, the front fascia, the splitter and grille. Sounded like an explosion and we were sure the entire front end was wrecked. We got lucky thanks to the XPEL. Nothing was broken; nothing needed to be replaced. Stripped off the XPEL, polished it out, waxed it, and next day pointed it out to the buyer, to which he said, “still looks just like the pictures you sent me. Still looks nearly new.” (It was eight years old with 42,000 miles on it).

Sure it was an extreme case, and again we were so lucky but thanks to XPEL it was not off to a collision repair yard with consequent a lost sale. I have had two friends who both have avoided headlight replacement due rock impacts with their having PPF on.

Everyone gets to choose…

 

@TC Cruising wow glad y'all were safe! Sounds like it was worth it!

I had just gotten a new CSL bumper for my E46 M3. Got it painted and PPF applied, on my way home, a van ran over an orange cone and it came flying at my front bumper at highway speed. I got out and managed to get the marks off the PPF, unfortunately the paint cracked/crazed under the PPF. luckily I have the PPF holding all that paint together.

 

I have had PPF and ceramic coating covered by insurance on multiple claims. Both were done by a certified shop with all of the receipts, etc provided to insurance. The body shop took the car to the original PPF installer and everything was handled with between those parties with no involvement from me. The owner of the PPF shop told me they did insurance work all the time. This was in VA with Progressive insurance. YMMV.