How much would it cost (in UK) for a full car wrap on an M3P?
My MS was about £5,000 for a full wrap. You could consider "front facing surfaces only", to reduce the cost. But then you need to be sure the damage is going to come from that direction
Pros for me include:
Paintwork looks as-new. Not got any stone chips etc. etc. Some Tesla paint is soft (particular USA cars - because of Regs about noxious chemicals in the painting process I believe). First MS I had did 95,000 miles is 3.5 years. Paintwork still looked new. 2nd MS is lower mileage, but 4 years old already, still looks new.
I don't have to rush to clean Pidgeon poo off. Duno if cleaning is easier, I usually just let the local "Hand Car Wash" do it with a jet-wash lance, once in a blue moon
I don't worry about snuggling up to countryside hedges
Minor bumps unlikely to break the paint. My car was side swiped on a roundabout, car looked like it had been scrapped down a wall ... a wash, and some work with a hair drier to "heal" the PPF and, apart from two small dents, from a distance you'd have been hard pressed to know anything had happened.
My PPF wrapper
said "
Bring us the car as-is, do not let the Vendor do any paint correction what so ever" they don't want to have to fix someone else's bodged fix attempt, and they said that advice applies from Bugatti to Lada
They will detail the car, before the wrap it, which could be a benefit if you spend time keeping the car looking nice (I don't bother)
Edit: Probably some protection for car being key'd and other similar scrapes
Cons:
Minor dent is not going to be fixed by Chips Away. That will need replacement of the PPF (but you could probably do a small area yourself if you wanted to).
Your insurance company may not be interested in telling the difference between PPF, only intended to protect the car's paint, and a full boy-racer colour wrap that will change the car to Drug Dealer Spec ...
