As title says, I am thinking of adding 15mm spacers, but my service guy told me I should PPF at least lower sills and under door panel to PPF.
Please can anybody report if it is a real issue on our cars?
Thanks

 

Yeah man, this is a real issue on any cars that have those beautiful wide hips, spacers aside….Our F-types, Aston Martin Vantages, etc…

I have full body PPF on my car, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is doing the job and protecting the paint on my car in that area. It’s not bad at all yet in that area of the PPF, and you have to look close to see the hits the PPF has taken already, but it’s definitely getting hit on the regular.

All this said, I recently installed some XKR wheel slats on the front to help protect even further. Others have done so and reported that they do help. It only makes sense that they would, so I went ahead and put them on. I quite like them now that they’re on the car.

I thought it was a good idea because, although my PPF is there protecting the paint, if the PPF itself starts to look like crap then so will the car. Now that I have those wheel slats on, it probably could make some sense to buff out the small hits on the PPF. They’re very minor and probably will come out from what I understand. I didn’t know PPF could be buffed, but apparently it can be.

At minimum you could at least consider installing those slats? Something to consider anyway…Here is a thread I put together on them at the time if it might interest you…

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/f...ll-ppf-295698/

Cheers

 

I had 15mm spacers and now have custom offset rims that are in the same ballpark, no issues with it (I am ceramic coated but no ppf). Btw I have my old 15mm spacers for sale in the classifieds if you still need to buy them.

 

All I can is that rocks are definitely hitting there. It’s obvious from observing my PPF, and no doubt there is a reason that Jaguar put at least that small piece of PPF there from factory. There’s enough rock activity going on to mark PPF, but perhaps on average it will not greatly (or at all) damage the paint if the paint is strong factory paint?

To me logic dictates, however, that eventually a few good ones WILL land and do undesirable things to the paint. Seems inevitable to me, but I think it comes down to how much one cares about such things.

 

Hmmm, I reckon I don't run over that many rocks then! I do baby my car, garaged all winter except when roads are completely clear of gravel and salt (not many outings this past winter), no offroading, so maybe that has something to do with it. I have nothing but factory protection, I ran 15mm spacers for several years, I have black paint, I'm **** about my car care, no concerns on my side.

 

I had full EXPEL Stealth PPF installed on my F-Type immediately after I purchased it. It's saved my bumper and front headlight multiple times, see below photos. The pitting in the PPF is very small so its not noticeable unless you look really close and if it ever gets bad enough I can get the PPF section replaced which will be easier and less stressful that constantly touching it up with paint. I also love how it gave my F-Type a satin finish too!

I recommend PPF for any sports or luxury car.

 

Our cars face the same conditions. I think the only difference is that I get to see the small hits because of the PPF being being there, and perhaps you don’t because, SO FAR, your rock hits on the hip area are not hard enough to compromise the paint? That would be the only logical explanation that I have, as there is nothing special going on over here…

I’ve gotten into many a conversation with others over this issue…My buddy, others at car meets, etc…What I’m talking about here seems to be a reasonably well accepted concept that wide hip cars have a greater opportunity for damage in this way…Front tires will throw rocks, that is a given…My buddy has a couple hits on the hip area of his Aston Martin Vantage I believe…

I personally think that it’s the luck of the draw on this until you MIGHT get unlucky enough to have a hard enough hit that compromises paint in a noticeable way…And to state the obvious, it’s not because I have PPF that I won’t get damage. If I get unlucky enough the hit could still be hard enough to damage paint. All I’m doing is improving my odds…

Cheers

 

I just purchased a 2017 Jaguar F-Type with 11,000 miles on the car. The car had Opticoat Pro ceramic coating applied to the car, which cost the original owner over $3000 dollars and that price was about 8 years ago. The car looks flawless with the ceramic coating. The car has been in storage, so the ceramic coating is, if it was applied last week. Car has zero paint chips as of now. I researched doing the PPF to the car and I was told, the ceramic coating would have to be stripped off from the car. That would be such a waist. Anyone here know if this is true and can verify what I was told, about removing the ceramic coating before the PPF is applied to the car.
Any feedback and advice will be appreciated. https://opticoat.com/collections/pro-ceramic-coatings


Thank you .

 

That is 100% true. The coating would definitely need to be removed prior.

 

I tend to agree with you, but only if someone is keeping the car as a long term purchase. PPF, especially full body, is just too darn expensive to make it worth while otherwise. My opinion only of course.

 

I'm lowered on eibachs with 18mm spacers along with an aggressive camber...i had my PPF shop do the fenders and the rocker panels.

 

For me its long term ownership and a solution for my OCD, lol!