Taycan PPF

[RF88]

Hi
Just wanted some advice. I’m picking up my Taycan CT next week. I’m in 2 minds about whether or not to apply PPF to it. Or take out Porsche’s minor damage (smart repair) option.
Has anyone had theirs ppf’d? Would you recommend it?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks in advance

[Discombobulate]

RF88 said:

Hi
Just wanted some advice. I’m picking up my Taycan CT next week. I’m in 2 minds about whether or not to apply PPF to it. Or take out Porsche’s minor damage (smart repair) option.
Has anyone had theirs ppf’d? Would you recommend it?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks in advance

I wouldn’t do either.
Smart repairs can be poor quality.
And PPF is expensive.
Put the money for your chosen PPF option into a slush fund and use for a proper respray / panel repair if you ever need one.

[garystoybox]

Think it depends on the colour…. Some shades seem to really highlight stone chips and even swirl marks from bad washing. You’ll likely not get the cost back on selling for properly prepped and installed ppf. I got it because I wasn’t bothered about the cost, simply wanting a car which is easy to keep clean and minimising rash in a vehicle I put a lot of miles on in all weather conditions.

[Cheib]

For a car like the CT which is presumably a family car I’ve had the rear bumper PPF’d of a Cayenne and Macon…..protects parking scuffs and stops the scratches when people less careful than you are loading/unloading from the boot or dogs etc . Wouldn’t bother with the rest of the car.

[W12GT]

Don’t get it done by Porsche! I’ve currently got a courtesy Taycan ST with 1k on it and the PPF is lifting all over the place at the edges - lots of grit and dust under it too where it’s formed ‘pockets’. When I walked around the car with the service chap, he said they are all like it at the moment - basically everyone he’s seen that’s less than 6months old.

Looks like they must have changed supplier/materials/manufacturer.

Edited by W12GT on Monday 31st October 18:24

[pheonix478]

What is with this PPF thing anyway? Seems to be an instagram thing whenever someone gets delivery of a new car it immediately has to get trailered off to get PPF. All seems very scammy and superfluous to me. Is it a fad or what? My dad's high mile 997, obviously never PPF'ed, just got a first ever paint correction 'detailing' and looks better than it did the day it came out the factory.

[Drl22]

Fully PPF’d mine. My experiences with paint resprays have either been very expensive or never quite right. I have an extremely sensitive eye for this kind of stuff though. Mines cherry metallic and will stay flawless because of it. It’s a big car and poor paint will show.

Edit to say all my cars are PPF’d it is not a gimmick.

[kmpowell]

PPF is only as good as the application and the applicator. Porsche factory PPF is done to edges, not wrapped, so there are visible edges and inconsistent seams which attract dirt/lifting. Southern Porsche OPC's tend to ship their PPF jobs out to Topaz, who do a better job with prep and finish but are expensive.

IMO, the best way to get PPF done is to find a local approved specialist, who will do the job at a higher quality standard. They should correct/polish the car before the PPF application, then afterwards you can have a ceramic coat applied if you want more longevity.

I had my new GT4 done by a local specialist, and the total cost of the work was much less than what my OPC/Topaz wanted for just fro the basic PPF application.

It had a paint depth inspection then decontamination, a full stage 1 machine polish/correction before the XPEL PPF was applied by wrap, not edge). XPEL Ceramic coating was put over the PPF and also XPEL ceramic coating over all other Paintwork/Plastic areas. Wheels off, decontaminated and ceramic coated/baked with Gtechniq C5 wheel armour, callipers & springs and all other wheel arch areas were also ceramic coated with Gtechniq. All the glass was given a coating of Gtechniq G1clearvision smart glass.

Using a specialist meant he was also able to offer a custom XPEL package for me (the normal 'track' package plus some other custom areas without going for full coverage.

It took a whole week to complete, but the results were/are amazing and with the wrap application there are no 'edges' apart from the one that goes down the middle of the roof which you can only see on a cold morning. Having seen how the 718 gets battered by rash when used on road, there was no way I would take the chance to not have it done for the sake a couple of thousand pounds.

Edited by kmpowell on Friday 4th November 11:17

[elitedetailer]

RF88 said:

Hi
Just wanted some advice. I’m picking up my Taycan CT next week. I’m in 2 minds about whether or not to apply PPF to it. Or take out Porsche’s minor damage (smart repair) option.
Has anyone had theirs ppf’d? Would you recommend it?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks in advance

It's well worth doing and definitely not a fad, we have done scores of Taycans. somebody mentioned you can put some money aside for some paintwork repairs, this is not recommended, the price of bodywork has gone through the roof in the last 18 months, pretty much double what it used to cost us and any very decent bodyshop will not be cheap. This is speaking from somebody who has 3-4 cars in a bodyshop every month... We have noticed that the paint is very brittle on the EV Porsches and they seem to pick up much more chips on the front end compared to other cars. The rear passenger doors also take a pounding, so much so that we apply a double layer on the lower corners. This is something we found after running one car in the family and we quickly noticed how quick the car picks up nicks and marks. For peace of mind it's a no brainer, to date we do not have one single customer that regrets having it done.

[Blue62]

Just for a bit of balance for those considering going this route, my dolomite silver Taycan has now done just over 8000 miles of mixed driving and I’ve been surprised at how few chips the car has picked up. I certainly don’t recognise the comments about the rear doors and based on the evidence of my own eyes, the paint is no more or less brittle than on other marques or models I’ve owned.

I have had PPF on my more exotic cars and recognise it’s a personal choice, but I’d rather put the money into extra’s these days, the RWS on the Taycan is a daily delight.

[elitedetailer]

Blue62 said:

Just for a bit of balance for those considering going this route, my dolomite silver Taycan has now done just over 8000 miles of mixed driving and I’ve been surprised at how few chips the car has picked up. I certainly don’t recognise the comments about the rear doors and based on the evidence of my own eyes, the paint is no more or less brittle than on other marques or models I’ve owned.

I have had PPF on my more exotic cars and recognise it’s a personal choice, but I’d rather put the money into extra’s these days, the RWS on the Taycan is a daily delight.

The chips are less noticeable on a silver car, far less compared to darker colours. If you take a closer look around the factory guards you should notice quite bit of road rash. We do a lot of work with a few OPC's, one of which is around the corner from one of my workshops, all of their demo cars come to us for custom lower door and rear quarter pieces of PPF from new which they then remove when selling the car. It saves them a huge amount on prep costs when reselling the vehicles.

[Blue62]

elitedetailer said:

The chips are less noticeable on a silver car, far less compared to darker colours. If you take a closer look around the factory guards you should notice quite bit of road rash. We do a lot of work with a few OPC's, one of which is around the corner from one of my workshops, all of their demo cars come to us for custom lower door and rear quarter pieces of PPF from new which they then remove when selling the car. It saves them a huge amount on prep costs when reselling the vehicles.

Not doubting you necessarily but I’m fairly fastidious and there’s no serious rash on the rear quarters at all, I’ve seen more on my 911’s. I’m equally surprised by the front, as the car sits so low, maybe I got one with soft paint!