PPF or Coating and no tailgating?
PPF or Coating and no tailgating?
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TVR4500cc

Original Poster:

188 posts

207 months

Tuesday 30th May 2017
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Apologies if this has been done to death already.

Whose gone PPF and who's done coatings?

Considering a detail and full self healing Feynlab coating.

Ive seen three V12V recently with what I hope we're cheaper PPF kits as they fitted 98% correctly - not great around the grilles / edges (better than cutting with a scalpel)

Full vents / lights out PPF even to the front and rear arches must be £2k??

PPF albeit self healing will be susceptible to damage in time.

Do the "Ceramic" coatings help - reduce swirls but not so much track day gravel rash (so will avoid track days). Seen a car 18 months post treatment and still looked great.

Anyone tried the newest self healing coating?

I'm thinking coating and bi annual retreatmets and even a bumper respray may look better and be less costly than the cheaper < £1500 PPF?

Not had any of my cars coated or PPFd to date and none have suffered badly - just ended up with honest patina not messy (lucky perhaps)

Look forward to some hands on experience / thoughts on the subject.

Suspect it comes down to a bit of luck?


bogie

17,105 posts

303 months

Tuesday 30th May 2017
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Ceramic coatings like gtechniq are great, I have had that on 2 cars and it lasts for ages and really makes the car easy to clean, always looks great. However it does not protect against chips.

On a newish car I would have both if you want to keep the paint in best condition over many years.

TVR4500cc

Original Poster:

188 posts

207 months

Tuesday 30th May 2017
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Cheers Bogie, do you feel it is less prone to chips with Ceramic than without?

Do the chips generally appear smaller if not fewer?