thale

Can anyone with experience give us some advice as to what needs po]rotected....ie doors, side skirts and back of car. Thanks guys

Raymond Grand Sport

I would not represent myself as an expert, but I am a believer in PPF for most of my cars. I just had a 2023 Z06 completed by Esoteric in Columbus Ohio. They have completed several cars for me over the years and I value their work. They have a "Corvette Package" that includes the following:

1) Full front end (bumper, hood, both front fenders)
2) Then add for the package rocker panels, door sills, rear impact wheel areas, and mirrors

I have found the door sills to be more helpful than I thought. No matter how hard you try you will scrape them at some point. Depending on how much you want to do, you could choose to do all of this, less and omit some items, or add more.

thale

I agree completely thanks for your reply.....nice car. I will do all you said but was more concurred with how much of the door if the complete door is needed. Thank you

EvanZR1

On my '23 Stingray, I had the NCM's FrontEndPlus package done:

After driving that for 8K miles, I was going to skip the hood and fenders and do just the front bumper, mirrors and the lower side panels on my '24 Z06. However, the shop I used had a special to do the hood & fenders as well, so I went ahead and did them again. The vast majority of impacts on the '23 were on the front bumper, the mirrors and just in front of and behind the rear wheels. At a bare minimum I'd do front bumper and mirrors as that is where probably 90+% of the impacts occur, and especially where all the bug splats are going to be. Doing PPF in those areas makes it a lot easier to use waterless carwash or quick detailer and a microfiber to clean up the bugs without damaging (scuffing/swirling) the paint. The lower sides in front & behind the rear wheels are more road debris being thrown up by the tires, so while the PPF will help protect the paint, it's also potentially going to get actual damage to it over time. I debater on this as after a few years the PPF might look worse than just leaving the paint, but again, it was reasonably inexpensive so if it starts looking bad I can always remove or replace it.

thale

Thank you for the picture this is what I am considering....maybe the entire door

Raymond Grand Sport

Yes, mine is very much like the EvanZR1's pic, I did not have the entire doors done on mine.

EvanZR1

You don't need the doors done, never saw anything on them in 8K miles doing multiple long highway trips.

thale

Thanks Guys

marknagy13

Definitely the area inside the side scoop. Tons of rocks go in there.

CliffB-99

I didn’t do the top of the front fender behind the headlights and of course I got a chip there…

spearfish25

Any time I’ve done ppf, I get a chip wherever I didn’t ppf. Last car had a chip under the goddamn rear wing of all places. So the C8Z now has full ppf.

Rapid Z06

spearfish25 do you mind sharing what you paid for the full wrap?

spearfish25

It was part of some of the ‘mandatory options’ I got to select as part of the sale. Wanna say it was about $8k. They debadge the whole car, ppf and then rebadge. I left off the CORVETTE on the back and the stripes.

RBK

Given what is pictured I would consider the entire car. I have done that on a couple of cars. The advantage is NEVER WAXING AGAIN.

Tpup

Door sill...