First Clear PPF being installed on Cybertruck (Foundation Series)

[Old Spice]

Clear PPF film being applied by @ghostshieldfilms

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[Horizonvangogh]

Xpel dealer here. This is the way! Lock that gorgeous stainless finish in and top it with ceramics. This is what I’ve been telling our future CT clients that don’t want to wrap.

 

[Eddyrelik]

Xpel dealer here. This is the way! Lock that gorgeous stainless finish in and top it with ceramics. This is what I’ve been telling our future CT clients that don’t want to wrap.

As a dealer, Do you know if they make like a transparent color PPF?

Would be so cool to do a bronze/copper/gold PPF but transparent so you can see the metal and grain!

Saw this edited pic a while back and love it!

 

[derekmw]

Doesn't a clear PPF kind of seem a bit pointless? They made the Cybertruck with this material to be able to handle all the rough elements of being outdoors, and then you wrap it with a PPF to protect that? I'm probably just ignorant...but seems odd to me

 

[Bkb13]

I have a clear PPF on my raptor. Driven in brush where other cars were getting scratched to hell, and my raptor never had issues. The stuff was self healing so after a few days in the sun, the PPF would self heal.

 

[derekmw]

I mean I know PPF protects, I have it on my Rivian, and it did protect the paint from rock chips already and a door ding. But it doesn't always self heal. The large rocks that hit, and the door ding scraped up the PPF. So I have to replace those sections eventually.

But with the non-painted surface, I would have thought that was the whole point - and why they didn't want to have it painted. So PPF on top of that non-painted metal surface just wasn't what I thought people would do.

 

[Da-Funk Boogie]

How much is this going to cost $6,000? Hell you’ll be at Cyber Beast prices really quickly. Throw a few extras on the dual wheel version and you’re close to $90 thousand in no time.

 

[Longranger]

The primary reason to wrap is cosmetics. It will not protect steel. It will also look less dirty than steel will with water spots fingerprints etc… Nightmare if you must have a tidy looking ride.

 

[Mushadd]

I mean I know PPF protects, I have it on my Rivian, and it did protect the paint from rock chips already and a door ding. But it doesn't always self heal. The large rocks that hit, and the door ding scraped up the PPF. So I have to replace those sections eventually.

But with the non-painted surface, I would have thought that was the whole point - and why they didn't want to have it painted. So PPF on top of that non-painted metal surface just wasn't what I thought people would do.

Fewer benefits vs installing it on a painted car but you still benefit from keeping the car clean. Smudges on stainless are a pain.

 

[Bkb13]

I mean I know PPF protects, I have it on my Rivian, and it did protect the paint from rock chips already and a door ding. But it doesn't always self heal. The large rocks that hit, and the door ding scraped up the PPF. So I have to replace those sections eventually.

But with the non-painted surface, I would have thought that was the whole point - and why they didn't want to have it painted. So PPF on top of that non-painted metal surface just wasn't what I thought people would do.

Not all PPF is self healing. You have to specifically buy self healing PPF.

 

[derekmw]

ah, good points. I didn't thinka bout that. I can imagine finger prints all over it.

I'm just looking forward to going surfing or that dreaded mall with parking spots made for a fiat and not worrying about door dings

 

[derekmw]

Not all PPF is self healing. You have to specifically buy self healing PPF.

Yeah, mine is self healing but you get a gouge big enough, it's not going to heal. a lot of my smaller rock chips from driving on the freeway are fine. but I have 1 from a fairly large rock that must have hit it, and that one door ding. it's in the shop for an unrelated door ding on my gear tunnel area so they are replacing the PPF areas that got ruined

 

[Bkb13]

I was immune to west Texas pinstripes while hunting. Worth every penny.

 

[Horizonvangogh]

As a dealer, Do you know if they make like a transparent color PPF?

Would be so cool to do a bronze/copper/gold PPF but transparent so you can see the metal and grain!

Saw this edited pic a while back and love it!

https://www.stek-usa.com/fashion-film/

 

[Dquady]

Doesn't a clear PPF kind of seem a bit pointless? They made the Cybertruck with this material to be able to handle all the rough elements of being outdoors, and then you wrap it with a PPF to protect that? I'm probably just ignorant...but seems odd to me

Finger prints...

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