Hi,
I've been perusing this forum in the past few days to get educated on paint protection options. I have a Pearl White P85D coming in "December" (that's what MyTesla says anyways) and would like to figure out my paint protection strategy so I can go and implement it as soon as I take delivery.
As I understand it there's roughly 2 things that are popular: OptiCoat Pro and some kind of PPF (like XPEL). OptiCoat seems like it's like having a thicker clear coat on top of your paint (but with better protection), and XPEL is more robust against collision issues (rock chips, etc) with its self healing properties.
I gathered that to do a good protection job, for example full XPEL wrap, one has to shell out a few grands ($6-$7K).
What I don't quite understand is the economics of it... for that amount of money, can't you simply get whatever blemishes or rock chips fixed, maybe even the whole hood and some panels repainted? Why prepay the "cost to repair", with the risk that you'd still have to get some repaint job going anyway? (rock chips can still damage even XPEL)
I'm obviously missing something (since many people seem to be very happy with their paint protection strategy and $$$ cost), so will someone please educate me! :biggrin:
Thank you!
Cheers,
-- Greg
I've been perusing this forum in the past few days to get educated on paint protection options. I have a Pearl White P85D coming in "December" (that's what MyTesla says anyways) and would like to figure out my paint protection strategy so I can go and implement it as soon as I take delivery.
As I understand it there's roughly 2 things that are popular: OptiCoat Pro and some kind of PPF (like XPEL). OptiCoat seems like it's like having a thicker clear coat on top of your paint (but with better protection), and XPEL is more robust against collision issues (rock chips, etc) with its self healing properties.
I gathered that to do a good protection job, for example full XPEL wrap, one has to shell out a few grands ($6-$7K).
What I don't quite understand is the economics of it... for that amount of money, can't you simply get whatever blemishes or rock chips fixed, maybe even the whole hood and some panels repainted? Why prepay the "cost to repair", with the risk that you'd still have to get some repaint job going anyway? (rock chips can still damage even XPEL)
I'm obviously missing something (since many people seem to be very happy with their paint protection strategy and $$$ cost), so will someone please educate me! :biggrin:
Thank you!
Cheers,
-- Greg