Originally Posted by Limegrntaln
STek DynoShield, full PPF, headlights out, tail lights out, mirrors off, debadged, and rebadged, thumbnail spoiler off, door handles removed, and PPF laid down, seamless, without edges showing. wheels removed, polished and coated, and calipers coated.
Plus full STek DynoFlex on the outer windshield. Im a rock chip magnet, so I need to get that done. It'll look like its been painted. Have you ever tried to trade in a $100K car, thats been repainted?
Anyone thats going to give you all the money, for the car, on a trade, is going to check the paint with a paint depth gauge. If its been repainted, (and cars that are hand painted with a paintgun, lay down paint about twice as thick as the factory robots,) how are you going to prove to a dealer, whether the car has been repaired, or not? OEM paint is getting thinner and thinner.
Factory paint jobs, today, are about 100-140 microns. Laying down an ultra thin layer of paint and clear, with a paintgun, applied by hand, is probably going to be laid down at 200-300 microns. If a dealer checks the paint, with a thickness gauge, and it doesnt make sense, to them, a repaint may be covering up a car being damaged, because why else would you repaint anything on a car?
Full PPF, keeps the paint from oxidizing, keeps it from fading, and keeps it clear from any environmental fallout, bird bombs, getting keyed, etc. I brought my car to a paint shop to have a mark on the front bumper looked at, and the owner, whom Ive worked with, on other projects, said he hopes he never has to repaint Dravit Gray, or any 3 stage paint, like it, because you'd either have to repaint the entire car, to get it to match, or at a minumum, one whole side, just to fix a door ding.
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