Cayman R - Advice on PPF as Parking in London

[andy.yeow]

Hi All,

Bought an R two months ago and love it! was looking for a Cayman for a while as everytime I drove any other car I kept saying its just not a good as a Cayman, finally bought an R in Dec and park it on the streets of Central London.

Issue is after a couple of weeks I had someone reverse very slowly into the front bumper just above the front plate, this left a scuff mark and has rippled the top coat as annoying as this is I knew this would happen at somepoint, was hoping it would be longer than two weeks! worst part is no details left!

Went to the car earlier and can see someone has scuffed the side while trying to park! Ive not looked to see if i can get this one out yet as to be honest the damage was done the first time and will need spraying anyway.

My question is would PPF on the front and rear bumpers be any use to stop this kind of thing? does anyone else on here park on the road and have the same issues? if so have you applied PPF? did it work?

Cheers

Andy

[andy.yeow]

cheers guys, I posted on a FB group and all i have been getting is nice car, park it in a garage!! i would if i had one!!

I know somewhere that i can get it done for a good price (mates rates), just need to get damaged repaired first

[andy.yeow]

wellzee said:

Unfortunately there is no such thing as a driveway or a garage where I live; so it's on the road or get rid of the car - I've thought about it quite a few times... but I just can't do it.

Same here! Every time it gets hit I'm like hmm should just sell it! Then I get in it and think no way it's worth it

[andy.yeow]

Mutema said:

I live in Shoreditch and have had an R from new and had PPF on it from day 1. I wouldn't trust leaving the car on street to be honest - for starters, I have a neighbour who would be a disbelief exhibit on 'youparklikeac***.com' and with 26 miles on the last daily driver I had, drove into the back of me pulling out of a bay. She actually reversed into a Yamaha R1 that fell into the back of my car and did some wonderful damage with the handlebars to the rear of the car. I heard the commotion from inside but she just drove off.

I had Paintshield put on which at the time was the best product on the market. I think Xpel is choice du jour now, I have it on my GT4 but I can't say I have noticed a difference between them. I think PPF will help with surface scuffs, lightly warming the PPF with a heat gun will accelerate the process. It won't protect against pressure and will conceal rippling.

Install an accident cam with parking protection would be my other piece of advice.

I looked at the cams, as thinking try the PPF first and if that doesn't work then cam and report hit and runs! Though I have just bought race hooks which I will leave in when parked so first thing to get hit will be that, do you go to any Cayman events?