Stone chip protection
Discussion
I'd already planned to do this over the weekend so Leigh1050's thread was timely.
As my old R8 was peppered in stone ships I decided that I was going to do something to prevent them on the tourer. After doing some research into stone chip films, I had a few quotes being £500+, I came across this product:
I did a bit more searching it looked to be a decent proposition, so I ordered a couple of cans & began watching the weather to see if I could get it done this weekend. As it turned out it looked to be good but a bit cooler than ideally recommended on the instructions.
First the prep work, the car was washed (I was going to clay it as well but the paintwork felt like it had been done already, Thanks Dougie or Burton
), dried & waxed. Then on with the masking:
I decided to do the front bumper, entire bonnet, wings above the 'crease' line & mirrors. Following the instructions I then applied the supplied wax & sprayed on the film (3 passes aiming for the orange peel look)
Then while the films still wet off with the masking
Unfortunately my ham-fistedness caused me to catch part of the film, I tried to respray but as shown later I was a little over zealous on the touch up.
Now it was just a 4 hour wait for it to dry. Once dry it looks like this:
My touch up error:
Finally you can just see the line of film here:
I used just under 2 cans for this so £60 rather than £500, even though it only lasts a year I can redo this for 8 years before I'm at the cost of the film. There are a few other minor drips & catches but they don't bother me. If they did it just peels off so no problem to redo it.
I just need to wait a couple of days for it to fully cure & then it will be getting a couple of coats of wax.
As my old R8 was peppered in stone ships I decided that I was going to do something to prevent them on the tourer. After doing some research into stone chip films, I had a few quotes being £500+, I came across this product:
I did a bit more searching it looked to be a decent proposition, so I ordered a couple of cans & began watching the weather to see if I could get it done this weekend. As it turned out it looked to be good but a bit cooler than ideally recommended on the instructions.
First the prep work, the car was washed (I was going to clay it as well but the paintwork felt like it had been done already, Thanks Dougie or Burton
), dried & waxed. Then on with the masking:I decided to do the front bumper, entire bonnet, wings above the 'crease' line & mirrors. Following the instructions I then applied the supplied wax & sprayed on the film (3 passes aiming for the orange peel look)
Then while the films still wet off with the masking
Unfortunately my ham-fistedness caused me to catch part of the film, I tried to respray but as shown later I was a little over zealous on the touch up.
Now it was just a 4 hour wait for it to dry. Once dry it looks like this:
My touch up error:
Finally you can just see the line of film here:
I used just under 2 cans for this so £60 rather than £500, even though it only lasts a year I can redo this for 8 years before I'm at the cost of the film. There are a few other minor drips & catches but they don't bother me. If they did it just peels off so no problem to redo it.
I just need to wait a couple of days for it to fully cure & then it will be getting a couple of coats of wax.
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