I guess if you believe the front will look like garbage after 1 year then you’ve justified your purchase. I have 2 model S cars and literally took a pic of one of the front bumpers on my 2017 with 110K miles while sitting in the parking lot waiting for my wife to come out of the grocery store. Is this what everyone is afraid of?
It really depends on where you usually drive... city driving is less likely to produce rock chips in my experience, as the speeds are usually low and not many rocks get lifted up to hit your car. If you frequently do freeways (and again - depends on which freeways, as some are dirtier than others) you can get a decent amount of rock chips in a matter of 100 miles. I recently saw a brand new Model S, less than 1000 miles to it - the owner went from the Bay Area to Disneyland in SoCal, and by the time he was back he had multiple and very visible rock chips at the front of the hood. i5 is dirty :/
Dunno
I only have impact zones PPF (hood, fenders, lights) as I can't justify the price of full PPF + with impact zones you can just replace it when it gets too damaged. Before I put it though I also got a few rock chips, so maybe it's mostly chance/luck involved, but in my experience rock chips do happen. I even had a rock chip so big that it broke my previous Model 3's windshield. (I am in East Bay and 680 is usually pretty littered).Yes, but there is a ceramic on top of the PPF. Although there is now PPF with ceramic coatings built into the PPF.
I live in the Bay Area as well but have lived decades in the Midwest and east coast as well. If you think california is representative of what living/driving in other parts of the country is like…
Are you saying it still still snows in the Winter?! PPF and coatings are not the same?! Wow, thanks for educating me. I'll see myself out now.
