WHY RE-PAINT? USE COLOURED PPF.

Very often we have people come by the shop with their car’s paint in terrible condition; filled with swirl marks, stone chips, and more because it hadn’t been protected since it was new. There are a couple of ways to solve this issue after-the-fact, but we’re noticing one solution in particular that stands out as the most cost-effective and long lasting:
Colour-Infused PPF.

If you’re a more visual person and would prefer seeing it in action, here’s a link to a YouTube video where I walk you around our SL65 & ZL1 projects, both of which we wrapped in Gloss Black PPF for this exact reason:

Solution One: Paint Correction

Although a paint correction can solve swirl marks, other scratches could be too deep and require several pass-throughs over the clear coat, significantly trimming it down. 

This method does not remove stone chips.

Then you have to leave the paint as-is and deal with more swirls marks in 1-2 years of daily driving (and even more stone chips!).

Solution Two: Re-Paint + PPF

The second option which removes all swirl marks, scratches, rock chips, etc. would be to simply re-paint the affected panels.

Although the panels will look great, it's no longer the original paint (which may drop resale value) and you're still left with the need to protect it.

Adding a Paint Protection Film install on top of re-painting quickly makes this option the most costly. Which leads perfectly into the last option.

Solution Three: Coloured PPF

The reason this option is becoming more and more popular is because you bypass the repainting phase of the car. 

Once the vehicle has been thoroughly cleaned and polished for decontamination, we simply install a coloured PPF which dissipates the underlying stone chips and totally covers up the swirl marks or paint blemishes/imperfections underneath.

Not only that, but at the end of the day it’s PPF, it still holds all its self-healing properties and you can choose to do a complete colour change at the time of install if you are tired of the current paint job.

We’ve used this method on these three gloss black (notorious for paint issues) cars: Mercedes S65, Mercedes SL65 & Camaro ZL1. Look at the final result and let us know what you think!

Enjoy your weekend!
- Ali Ushak, CEO.