MattBianco

I posted this in a forum site for one of my other cars. You may find the research useful here as well.

It looks like I will be buying a '13 LX 570, with 15k miles. Great winter/ski/camping car with more elbow room and less sensitive than the X5. The car is, ahem, burgundy. So, I was looking to wrap it, and was doing wrapping research when I found a great test on clear film / clear bra.

The test intends to stress the film for being hit by a high-speed, small projectile. They fire a pellet gun at the film at different distances and see if there is damaged to the paint, damage to the film at a 3m distance, and damage to the film at a 5m distance.

Test Results:



Tested with IZH-53M using 4.5mm gauge led pellets


Surface: 1.2mm sheet metal, vs. cars at 0.8-0.8mm

Actual Films: See the test results and photos of the films after impact here: http://www.tintdude.com/forum/index....f-orafol-xpel/

Test Examples:

1BlinkGone

Looks like XPEL Ultimate is the clear (forgive the non-intentional pun) winner. Thank you for this valuable post. It just confirms what I had in mind.

CCL NanoFusion and Hexis Car Pro300 also fared well...

T4Fun

xpel is the best, i have it covered on my entire gx basically.
it also comes with 10 year warranty, cant beat it