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Originally Posted by N1rve
So I have a real M bumper on my M4 and the vertical pieces around the ends of the bumper are only covered on the side and not directly in the front. The front bumper PPF was done with a plotter, and it wasn't free hand cut.
I have my entire car PPF (headlights, doors, side skirts, rear quarter) the only thing that isn't PPFed is my rear taillights (I probably should of asked them to be covered too). I did not have to sign a waiver for the headlights and it's clear so there isn't any reduced output.
I have a mix of XPEL Black and Llumar Platinum on my car. XPELblack on the roof (black PPF instead of vinyl) and the rest of the car is Llumar Platinum. I used to have Llumar PPF on my roof and then had 3M 1080 vinyl sitting on top but once the 3m 1080 reached 4 years old I replaced it with XPEL black. After 4 years the Llumar Platinum came off fine with no damage to the roof.
I'm disappointed at the chemical resistance on the XPEL film because recently a bird took a dump on my car while I was driving and hit my roof and trunk, the XPEL on my roof etched only after sitting less than an hour and the LLumar on my trunk was fine. The XPEL is only like a year old and my LLumar is 6 years old.  The XPEL did not heal from the heat. |
You have a ceramic coating over the ppf? What Xpel model of film you have? I believe there's a couple price points. Surprised the Xpel performed like that. I heard bird crap can cause etching pretty quick. My installer is using Suntek film. I'd like to ppf the entire thing but I think I'll just do the complete front end, mirrors, rockers and B/C pillars for now.