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Stealth wrap for frozen paint
Looking into stealth wrapping my new M3. Has anyone here had experience with it? The company says it's safe for matte use and wont change the look of the matte paint, but before I go putting 6 grand down on wrapping a car I'd like to know the nitty gritty of it!
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The appearance is fine by me, I just want to keep my baby safe so I can DD her this summer.
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Your friend's doesn't appear to be matte. I'm concerned the adhesive or peeling will damage the matte coat.
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I have a frozen silver as well. Wrapped with xpel ultimate stealth. The difference is very hard to see and I think this may be related to the underlying color. The frozen red may be more obvious than the silver. I can see a very mild difference in reflection at certain angles in indirect light and honestly only because I know where the wrap is. Most people will not see this. Can't comment on removal. Bought my car new. I assume the original paint job is good and that it can be removed later but I do not have experience with this. My installer who has done many of these on even higher end cars did assure me that it is not a problem. Obviously you only want to pay somebody who is skilled in the application of this film as it is not easy to do well.
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I will definitely be wrapping mine. Too bad it's so expensive...
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Only up to 1500 miles on the wrap. No chips thus far. I did get 2 very small rock chips at the front of the door just behind the initial front wrap. I decided to do the doors as well after this. I think it is well worth the money. Expensive but much chaper and less hassle than painting a panel. I use mine as a daily driver. I was worried about front door strikes at work and now have less worry with my doors wrapped. I'll submit a picture with the full front wrap. My wrap guy did say that the silver is particularly good with this wrap. I think it would be more noticeable with frozen black as you could see on that frozen red earlier.
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So if a pannel gets dented with wrap I'm assuming the dent can be pulled without damaging wrap/car? I'm under the impression it's fairly heavy duty wrap, so hopefully it can survive my 8000km road trip. Off topic, but I happen to be going to cali (the road trip) in her in a few weeks. Any tips for parking without getting damage? Not exactly staying at high end hotels.
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Damn that's a pretty car! Tempted to get front spoilers like that, but I think they will scrape when I go to park.
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6k for a wrap??? What did we do before these existed?? Just drive the car, save the money in the even something happens. It's just a car and will get chips/bruises.
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Only 1500 to wrap the impact areas... maybe I'll go with that.
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This is my Frozen Blue with the front matte clear bra. No issues. 13k miles
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And you tracked her even! Perfect. I am booked to wrap next week.
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We have the Xpel Ultimate (regular) on my fiancé's Alpine White e92. Why can't frozen colored cars use the regular clear non stealth wrap? It shouldn't change the appearance of the color I wouldn't think or does it?
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06-06-2014, 06:27 PM | #21 |
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My friend did that on his frozen gray M5. Did not turn out very well. Too glossy.
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Interesting, I always thought it was just a clear film but I guess it does have its own gloss to it. I'll have to look at I better next time i'm at my friends shop.
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