For those who have done full car PPF on their F-type (or close to), what has your experience been like?

Would you do it again?
Did you de-badge and re-bade on top of the installed PPF?
Any issues with bad installers cutting into your paint?

Cheers

 

My experience was good. I would do it again. There were no cuts in the paint.

I had a paint correction done on the whole car and Xpel Ultimate Plus installed everywhere except the back bumper and the tops of the rear quarter panels. I skipped doing the entire rear quarter panels due to the installer informing me that due to the large piece of Xpel needed to cover them and the labor involved they wanted quite a bit to do them. I settled on doing just the areas in front and behind the rear wheels instead on the entire rear quarter panels.

The only badge that Xpel was installed around was the leaper on the rear spoiler. They left the leaper on and installed around it. You really have to look closely at the right angle to see that is what they did. I did not even notice it was done that way until a year after it was installed.

The only issue I had was when they installed the Xpel on the doors. They removed the weather stripping to do it. The weatherstripping tore during that process. They installed new weatherstripping on both doors on their dime to make it right. They also installed Xpel on the black strip above the rear window where the shark fin is for my trouble of having to bring the car back in to have the weatherstripping replaced as the parts had to be ordered.

I also had them install Xpel on the door sills to prevent the inevitable scuffs from getting in and out of the car. They still look like new.

 

I am similar to cpq100. I had my car paint corrected and ceramic coated on top of the Xpel. I had the entire front of the car done and then some other spots around the back and A pillars. This is the first time using Xpel but I had used 3M product/Suntech in the past. I would do it again on any car I want to keep pristine or minimal rock chips.

 

Appreciate the responses. Just trying to decide what I will do with my 2024, or not do...

My experience in the past was mixed. Had some done on a truck. Edges keep lifting and gathering dirt so I decided to rip it all off and forget about it....Only to find out that the clown that installed it had cut all into the paint on my vehicle.

Had a small amount put on another truck by another outfit. That was a better experience.

In researching, it seems to be universally understood/accepted in the industry that literally only 30% of these "pros" actually know how to put this stuff on your vehicles without carving up your paint. I found that quite shocking. That said, it clearly shows how important it is to know who you are dealing with, but it's so hard to know for sure. There's so many of them.

It's one thing to have that occur on a reasonably inexpensive vehicle, but on an expensive sports car...ugly...

Still not totally sure what I will do etc...

In any case, for those that responded I appreciate your words

Cheers

 

I had Expel applied on several areas of my car [front bumper cover, light lenses, and side view mirrors] a couple of years ago and the shop I went to did an incredible job. I did go to the best installer I could find, and although it might have come at a small premium, it was well worth the peace of mind [there was a Ferrari and a brand new Aston Martin having the same treatment when I brought my car in]. Sometimes I have to remind myself that the coating is even there.

Btw, it has saved several small rock chips including one that looks like it would have taken out a front light lens. If you can find the right installer, you should seriously consider it. If nothing else, the next owner will really appreciate it!

 

When I bought my new 2021 F type R a couple of years ago, I immediately had a licensed dealer paint correct the car (actually the factory job was pretty decent), Xpel Ultimate PPF'd and then Ceramic Coated. When completed it looked absolutely beautiful...and today, it still is gorgeous. Don't be fooled though, the PPF does a worthy protection job, but it isn't perfect from damage done on less than perfect roads. I live in the NE USA and winters are terrible on most roads. The common practice is to cinder the roads with antiskid (small, bb sized stone or slag) and then apply salt apply, as long as the weather is above zero F. I don't ever drive this car in this weather, but the cinders/antiskid mixture will stay on the roads until late May or June. When this crap is on the roads, the Jag front tires kick up this trash and put small nicks in the paint in front of the rear wheel wells...the Xpel helps somewhat, but the nicks can go through the PPF and damage the car's paint, in that area. The cure for that is front splash guards....and if you want to be really safe, rear ones, as well. The problem is Jaguar does not make any type of splash guards for the F type....I solved the problem by getting ones cut and made and that issue has been corrected. I still would recommend the PPF and Ceramic coating, but its not impenetrable.