The A110 Photo Thread

[burty39]

Just back from Gyeon ceramic coating, excellent job at RDH

[Murphys]

Lovely Autumn weekend in Warwickshire for a blast. Still only 700ish miles covered though.

[bram070]

burty39 said:

Just back from Gyeon ceramic coating, excellent job at RDH

I see why all you Brits are taking PPF. It really adds to the colour depth of the paintwork! I never hear anyone in NL about it though.

[AlexNJ89]

bram070 said:

I see why all you Brits are taking PPF. It really adds to the colour depth of the paintwork! I never hear anyone in NL about it though.

I have PPF and I don't think it was worth the money.

Mine has slightly peeled around the crease of the lights, it's difficult to jet wash as you need to be mindful of the PPF and also bugs seem to stick to the PPF really badly and take a lot of scrubbing to get them off.

[PhilipIbrahim]

burty39 said:

Just back from Gyeon ceramic coating, excellent job at RDH

Did the detailer make any comment regarding the quality of the paint job? I have heard Porsche PTS is a bit better quality than the standard Porsche paint so I'm hoping Atelier colours are similarly improved over the standard paint although one poster mentioned Alpine has struggled with quality on a few of the colour options leading to them being withdrawn. I have a Tulipe noire car coming in December.

[Althalus]

OliffeFox said:

It is indeed, well spotted bram070 - and thanks !

Looks stunning and is absolutely the colour I'd have gone for if id been able to afford an atelier shade!

[tony993]

AlexNJ89 said:

bram070 said:

I see why all you Brits are taking PPF. It really adds to the colour depth of the paintwork! I never hear anyone in NL about it though.

I have PPF and I don't think it was worth the money.

Mine has slightly peeled around the crease of the lights, it's difficult to jet wash as you need to be mindful of the PPF and also bugs seem to stick to the PPF really badly and take a lot of scrubbing to get them off.

I think PPF is well worth the money. I suppose it depends on where you get it done. There are different products available & there is a wide spectrum of talent among PPF installers. Before I took delivery of my Alpine, I sold a 10 year old McLaren (42,500 miles) that had full PPF from new. When I sold it the paint still looked like new, apart from the few very small areas that were too difficult to cover, like the edges of the fins, behind the doors. These looked terrible, but you had to be really close to notice. When it was being serviced a while back, a group of McLaren Directors saw the car & were saying it was the best condition 12C they'd seen for many years (100% PPF coverage was very unusual back in 2012).

The people who did my Alpine didn't do quite such a perfect job as the company that did the McLaren, but they were cheaper & their price included ceramic coating too - I think the ceramic coat really helps stop things sticking to the car. I'm very pleased I got my car covered. If it starts peeling off, I'll take it back & get them to do it properly. I agree, you shouldn't be using a high pressure hose on the car if you have PPF, but I've never used one on any car, so this is no problem for me.

[London GT3]

I have had an A110 on my list of "cars I would like to own" for several years. I am delighted that my new car has just been delivered to the dealer. This replaces my Cayman R that I had for 9 years and which I sold in the summer.

[s111dpc]

London GT3 said:

I have had an A110 on my list of "cars I would like to own" for several years. I am delighted that my new car has just been delivered to the dealer. This replaces my Cayman R that I had for 9 years and which I sold in the summer.

Great choice, congratulations

[johnnyreggae]

Subtle colour scheme ! Enjoy

[bram070]

Good to see those Tour de Corse specials hit the road!

[LE62NDE]

AlexNJ89 said:

I have PPF and I don't think it was worth the money.

Mine has slightly peeled around the crease of the lights, it's difficult to jet wash as you need to be mindful of the PPF and also bugs seem to stick to the PPF really badly and take a lot of scrubbing to get them off.

I don't think PPF is a fit and forget option. The company that fitted mine advised caution when using a pressure washer -and never at full force- as well as recommending using a specific bug lifter/dissolver spray as soon as possible to prevent insect remains becoming embedded in the coating. Given that it has rained fairly solidly since I had the PPF fitted I have no way of testing either theory.

[essexstu]

London GT3 said:

I have had an A110 on my list of "cars I would like to own" for several years. I am delighted that my new car has just been delivered to the dealer. This replaces my Cayman R that I had for 9 years and which I sold in the summer.

oooo La Laa!

slightly rarer than the Cayman lol. Expect lots of attention and questions...

[OliffeFox]

Autumn sunshine.

[burty39]

bram070 said:

I see why all you Brits are taking PPF. It really adds to the colour depth of the paintwork! I never hear anyone in NL about it though.

Hi just to be clear this is ceramic coating not film

[burty39]

PhilipIbrahim said:

Did the detailer make any comment regarding the quality of the paint job? I have heard Porsche PTS is a bit better quality than the standard Porsche paint so I'm hoping Atelier colours are similarly improved over the standard paint although one poster mentioned Alpine has struggled with quality on a few of the colour options leading to them being withdrawn. I have a Tulipe noire car coming in December.

Hi, I did ask and he said the paint was very good.

[PhilipIbrahim]

Thanks for sharing, that is reassuring. I am bias, but Tulipe Noire is the most beautiful paint option.

[burty39]

PhilipIbrahim said:

Thanks for sharing, that is reassuring. I am bias, but Tulipe Noire is the most beautiful paint option.

You are correct!

[Hoofty]

burty39 said:

PhilipIbrahim said:

Did the detailer make any comment regarding the quality of the paint job? I have heard Porsche PTS is a bit better quality than the standard Porsche paint so I'm hoping Atelier colours are similarly improved over the standard paint although one poster mentioned Alpine has struggled with quality on a few of the colour options leading to them being withdrawn. I have a Tulipe noire car coming in December.

Hi, I did ask and he said the paint was very good.

Circumstantially, I had the same experience. The detailer was a third party of the PPF company so I didn't talk with him at length but he made the same comment ("lovely paint/nice to work with" etc). It isn't as glassy as a wet-sanded finish (and I've never looked hard at a PTS car), but I'm very happy with mine.

The colours withdrawn early were the lighter yellow/orange shades, presumably due to difficulties in colour matching between the metal and plastic surfaces - this is not unique to Alpine. That probably sounds like a simple thing to fix, but it may require production inefficiencies that the manufacturer can't accept. (Whereas a custom spray booth might be able to keep applying more colour, several trips through a production spray facility can play havoc with overall throughput of cars.)

Ref: PPF - the guys who did mine did provide some guidance on how to jetwash it, which essentially amounted to 'don't point the nozzle at any of the exposed edges', and it's been fine so far.

Aaaaaand another picture for the thread:



Nick

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