ppf application
Discussion
dcarrer0 said:
Just purchased a db11. No ppf. Lifetime ceramic coat. Easier to maintain. Ppf looks bad after awhile and has to be replaced.
Just some advice from my point of view. Hope this helps.
Congratulations!
I'm not sure we need to do this all over again but PPF and ceramic coating do very different things and are not really alternatives but complimentary. In fact my car has both. PPF full front end, sills and rear quarters, ceramic elsewhere. Ceramic gives a harder surface which resists washing marks/scratches and is virtually maintenance free but does almost nothing to protect against impact damage (mostly stone chips).Just some advice from my point of view. Hope this helps.
Congratulations!
It depends how you're going to use your car. If your going to go on the odd cruise into town and never follow another car closely then fine. However, I go on lots of SCD group drives and track my car. If it didn't have PPF it would be completely peppered with stone chips and on a dark colour that would look awful. Mine got new PPF when it had its warranty paintwork done (redone) late last year. The previous film had been on 5 years and still looked great so I think the statement that "Ppf looks bad after awhile" is about 10 years out of date. Anyway, each to their own.
Anyway David, back to your questions. I had mine done (and redone courtesy of AML) by Paintshield and am very happy with it but they are quite a distance from you (Peterborough). I'm happy with the coverage option I went for (as above) but have got a few tiny chips further back on the unprotected parts of the car so if the budget is unlimited then I might go for full car coverage instead.
Have we seen pictures of the new beauty?
DAVIDOXE said:
My new to me DBSS doesnt have any ppf applied and whilst the paintwork is still in stunning condition it might be best to get it done now.
Having had cars with it in the past i have never had it applied.
Any recommendations or tips would be appreciated (im located in Cardiff).
Cheers
Ceramic coating (I have Gtechniq on my car) is often substantially cheaper, but as noted, it's not a different solution for the same problem. It protects the paintwork from a maintenance cleaning perspective, but doesn't protect against stone chips in the same way that PPF is a shield that absorbs the hits and bounces back.Having had cars with it in the past i have never had it applied.
Any recommendations or tips would be appreciated (im located in Cardiff).
Cheers
As Pete mentioned, a hybrid of the two is probably the cost effective option. Ceramic coat the whole car and then PPF just the areas prone to stone chips.
As a recommendation, I used Ryan at Pride & Joy PPF for the detailing and subsequent ceramic coating, he's local(ish) based around Bristol, and can do both ceramic and PPF. Details on his website: www.prideandjoyppf.co.uk - he can also come to you so you wouldn't need to travel necessarily.
David
I had my 911 PPF by Paintshield in Peterborough, excellent job they were not close to me but provided a courtesy car and my wife and I stayed in a local hotel overnight whilst they completed the work.
If the car is a keeper it’s well worth doing the front end and the front of the rear wheel arches as soon as possible, I drove my new 911 direct from the Porsche dealer to Paintshield and it picked up front stonechips just on a 150 run.
Most decent PPF are now self-healing but even on the 911 I had a large stone hit the bonnet and it pieced the film and the only option was to replace the damaged film.
The weak point for chips on AM appears to be the windscreen, not found an answer to this yet.
I had my 911 PPF by Paintshield in Peterborough, excellent job they were not close to me but provided a courtesy car and my wife and I stayed in a local hotel overnight whilst they completed the work.
If the car is a keeper it’s well worth doing the front end and the front of the rear wheel arches as soon as possible, I drove my new 911 direct from the Porsche dealer to Paintshield and it picked up front stonechips just on a 150 run.
Most decent PPF are now self-healing but even on the 911 I had a large stone hit the bonnet and it pieced the film and the only option was to replace the damaged film.
The weak point for chips on AM appears to be the windscreen, not found an answer to this yet.
Thanks for the answers guys.
I did realise the difference with ceramic and ppf so as im hoping to get much more spirited use out of this one (assuming this covid s
t does one) im looking at ppf.
I did put a picture of the new car on the what have you done thread but will add a couple here later.
I did realise the difference with ceramic and ppf so as im hoping to get much more spirited use out of this one (assuming this covid s
t does one) im looking at ppf.I did put a picture of the new car on the what have you done thread but will add a couple here later.
I had my Vantage PPF'd with Xpel which was recommended and performed well in the 2 years I had the car, including 4 trips to Europe. A friend had Xpel on his Ferrari and after a day driving in a group of cars around some mountain passes which had a lot of loose stones he had quite a few marks on the front of the car when we pulled into the hotel. He left the car in the evening sun, by next morning not a mark on it.
I had everything from the front up to the doors PPF'd as well as sills etc. My car had a fair bit of carbon on it so had all carbon parts covered as well including underside of the splitter and diffuser.
A friend of mine has had his windscreen PPF'd as well (not sure of the product) and you'd never know looking through it! I wouldn't bother with that but his is a rather valuable classic.
I now have any car I buy PPF'd, well worth the investment in my opinion.
I had everything from the front up to the doors PPF'd as well as sills etc. My car had a fair bit of carbon on it so had all carbon parts covered as well including underside of the splitter and diffuser.
A friend of mine has had his windscreen PPF'd as well (not sure of the product) and you'd never know looking through it! I wouldn't bother with that but his is a rather valuable classic.
I now have any car I buy PPF'd, well worth the investment in my opinion.
Green9 said:
Out of interest, very roughly how much does PPF cost to do a DB9 for instance?
Depends on whether you just get the front done, entire car etc.For my (non AM) car, I was getting quotes of ~£2,500 for "Track pack" - i.e. front of car and lower panels, and from about £4,500 to £5,500 for the entire car (inc vat)
Highly recommend Azuri who did an astounding job on mine - but probably a bit far from the OP.
I would thoroughly recommend PPF. I have had Expel installed on my DB9 and it has stopped stone chips altogether. I have the PPF on the front half of the car and will shortly do the back half.
It has been on for almost 2 years now and still looks just as good as new.
The ceramic coat wont cope with stone chips whereas the Expel is excellent and the only place I have any small specks is in the windscreen so I am investigating the newly developed screen PPF.
I can not recommend PPF highly enough, I have had it on a couple of my cars over the years and the products these days are top class and don't yellow or deteriorate like the old products and they self heal in hot sun.
A good installer will wrap the edges and you wont even know you have it on the car..
It has been on for almost 2 years now and still looks just as good as new.
The ceramic coat wont cope with stone chips whereas the Expel is excellent and the only place I have any small specks is in the windscreen so I am investigating the newly developed screen PPF.
I can not recommend PPF highly enough, I have had it on a couple of my cars over the years and the products these days are top class and don't yellow or deteriorate like the old products and they self heal in hot sun.
A good installer will wrap the edges and you wont even know you have it on the car..
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