Full stealth PPF with ceramic coating, smoked headlights and window tint. Some discussion about the challenges of working with the canards.
Side skirts and a rear diffuser added and a peek at the trunk lid with the Inspiration wing removed.

LC content starts @2:40 with the final result @13:07

 

If your PPF isnt installed correctly, you could have on the hook for quite a bit of $$$ when you remove it

 

Good high quality PPF with thicker mil on front bumper/hood and rockers can block all but the most egregious rock chips. My c8 vette was blasted with pea gravel from a flatbed 18 wheeler that had been hauling concrete or something at about 60mph when he pulled in front of me to pass someone, less than 3 months into ownership.

Over 20 dings in the PPF. Installer pulles it off and only ONE had made it through deep enough to cause a tiny chip in the paint. Had I not had PPF I wouldve needed a full respray of that front bumper. He put a new piece of PPF on and unless you knew precisely where to look you would never see the 1 tiny chip that had occurred.

I swear by good well installed PPF and will be doing it on my LC.

 

Check out that video on how the PPF is removed.

As mentioned previously on this thread, I've never considered doing a whole car, but doing the front, hood, and side mirrors seem beneficial. My daily driver ES came with partial PPF and I like it thus far.

It's a matter of preference.

If you are physically unable to wash / wax your car, PPF seems very beneficial.

 

IMO it is substantially more than just about being able to be less diligent about washing & waxing. The right PPF properly applied can prevent significant damage. A buddy had a tire tread come off a semi and glance off his front bumper & fender. It scraped the PPF bad but the paint underneath suffered no damage.

Granted avoiding traffic and leaving a long follow distance can mitigate some but not all chances of things like this. I also took out a bird in my SLC recently and that marred my paint but PPF wouldve prevented 99% if not all of those scuffs. Also in TX if you leave a gap someone will just fill it.

 

Agree. I have hit a bird in the LC, no damage to paint, very minor chip in PPF only where the poor guy skull or beak must have contacted. That was at 60ish mph.

I also ate half a tire at 85mph. That one hurt the PPF quite a bit (as well as damaged my PCS sensor and trim around the emblem) but the clear coat under the PPF and the emblem (also PPF) are both completely unharmed.

 

Owner of subject Porsche obviously had perfection in mind and an unlimited budget. As I watched kept wondering about cost to remove the PPF and little tricks the "master-remover" had in his tool belt. Anyway, correct me on how I interpreted the cost of this project. I am well aware the "restoration" at the shop (described as a studio) was far more extensive than the PPF removal alone; but also that issues to be addressed existed after the painstaking removal to move the needle toward perfection.

So at about 10:25 he discusses "why remove the PPF", and mentions 5-6-7 percent of value. Reference 5% = 125K. Was this customer's cost?

 

The 5-6-7% is not talking about value of the car. He is talking about chasing perfection in the paint, to get the last 5% perfection in the finish vs. what a normal polish job might achieve. A normal 2 stage polish would likely correct 90-95% of the defects in the surface, but this customer is chasing that last bit to achieve as close to 100% perfection in the paint as possible, given the car is worth several million dollars.

I don't think we have any indication of what this cost the customer, but given the value of the car and the likely prestige of the shop, I would not be surprised if the bill was $20k+ for this type of removal, painstaking paint correction, and re-PPF.

 

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From video description:
This LC500 originally came in black. The customer had added carbon fiber parts to it. So, we changed the body to gunmetal using SPPF with Color's matte type. For the carbon fiber parts, we used SPPF's gloss type and painted them in a way that would highlight the carbon fiber weave. As a result, the finished product has a completely different look from the original! It has been reborn with a look that strongly emphasizes the custom elements. The original black is cool, but the gunmetal carbon fiber is even cooler.

It was so cool that my hands were shaking while taking pictures (lol). Moreover, since the painting was done with SPPF and SPPF with Color, it can be returned to the original black when reselling. I'll say it again because it's important. When reselling, it can be returned to the original black without damaging the original paint film. Yes, let's applaud again. Clap, clap, clap. However, there was one point to note during the application. Normally, if it were the gloss type of SPPF, it could be polished, but this body was the matte type. That's why it couldn't be polished. "So, we always take care of it."…
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I dont believe in Sants Claus either.

 

Where are you from? When I had mine done I went back to the same guy that did my Corvette and RX's. There was never a discussion about the wrap job being extra difficult, course he does all the exotics and has for years. Few years back we took our Corvette on a long run, Florida to Cali and on on stretch hit road construction which was new tar and quarter size rocks. Had no option but to go through it at 25-30 mph for several miles. Sound of those rocks coming up sounded like a machine gun all the way. When I was able to finally stop and examine the car I was blown away that there was no rock damage at all. From that time on I had been an advocate for PPF, I hate rock chips. Now it took almost 6 months for all the rocks to work themselves loose that were stuck under that Vette but no damage was done anywhere.

 

Yeah something like a C8 or lambo is WAY harder to do than an LC.

That said, unless your installer is removing the bumpers, trim pieces, etc you will have visible PPF edges in many places. The LC's panel gaps are so tight they are non existent. Can only wrap edges when you can get the PPF around them!

I can see my PPF edges on many panel edges and there are a few minor imperfections, but 99% perfect is good enough. Chasing the last 1% is all but impossible without removing panels and trim and I didnt want that done.

The imperfections in my PPF sure beat the damage my paint would take from pebbles, acidic bug guts, sap, and bird poo in the next 5-10 years before I have the PPF redone (10yr warranty but I think every 5-7 years is the sweet spot personally before it gets too banged up in TX).

 

I've installed and removed PPF and I don't understand why this guy is spraying the
top of the PPF while he is removing it instead of underneath where the adheasive
is. Also why he is working so hard with hot towels??? Use a steam machine and
be done with it.