[wow400]

Just had an email from my local BMW garage offering to ‘liquid wrap’ cars to protect it....
https://www.cotswoldgroup.com/cotswo...d-liquid-wrap/
Not heard of this stuff before (although I’m not really into detailing etc) but
£2000 sounds like a lot for an X model?

They’re also doing an offer to repair diamond cut alloy wheels for £400 a set....

[AyrshireColin]

Nope.

Certainly aint cheap!

[spangle1980]

Originally Posted by wow400

Just had an email from my local BMW garage offering to ‘liquid wrap’ cars to protect it....
https://www.cotswoldgroup.com/cotswo...d-liquid-wrap/
Not heard of this stuff before (although I’m not really into detailing etc) but
£2000 sounds like a lot for an X model?

They’re also doing an offer to repair diamond cut alloy wheels for £400 a set....

That's just for the front, it's FIVE K for the whole. WTF?

[wow400]

For that amount you’d hope it’d stop the car before you hit something, move it out the way then let you carry on!

[Supa Koopa]

Originally Posted by wow400

Just had an email from my local BMW garage offering to ‘liquid wrap’ cars to protect it....
https://www.cotswoldgroup.com/cotswo...d-liquid-wrap/
Not heard of this stuff before (although I’m not really into detailing etc) but
£2000 sounds like a lot for an X model?

They’re also doing an offer to repair diamond cut alloy wheels for £400 a set....

That's just the front end, it's £5,000 for the whole car. It just sounds like plastidip, which is the stuff people have been spraying their wheels with for a while and some spray shops have been doing whole cars with. I guess it's an adaptation of that.

[spta97]

For comparison, in NY US, a full PPF wrap is 5-6k USD.

[suby01]

Originally Posted by spta97

For comparison, in NY US, a full PPF wrap is 5-6k USD.

Correct. I paid over $3K for a full front and back bumper. Whole car is over $5K easy.

[spangle1980]

Originally Posted by wow400

For that amount you’d hope it’d stop the car before you hit something, move it out the way then let you carry on!

I love stuff like this, it makes me smile and puts aside all the work crap I have to deal with :-B

[kzg1969]

never heard of it either but a quick youtube search show quite a few products

unless you are changing the colour though, why would you chose this approach? PPF will be much tougher and self healing

you want a new colour, but dont want to paint.......then yeah, looks good.

[verysideways]

There are a few high profile companies doing liquid wraps - not just as an alternative to PPF but to actually change the colour of your car!

So it's kinda like vinyl wrapping, but instead of wrapping the car with sheets of vinyl they actually spray a similar coating on your coat - so you end up with a peelable layer of PPF. Done well it can also then be sprayed, hence colour change. Again, peelable, so if you get bored of the colour you can peel it off and your original paint underneath should be pristine.

Anyone heard of Topaz? They're a good example.

https://topazdetailing.com/services/topazskin/