Do you want to share your experience with having your Tesla wrapped? Costs/ results/ how long it takes? Was it worth it?
Took my brand new MS straight to the Detailer with a handful of miles on the clock - as I figured there was no sense getting some chips before the wrapping -
Topaz, near Tesla Heathrow. £4K from memory (and bit-less-than-half that for front-facing-surfaces only, but I figured that bird poo / idiot with a key on any panel was as likely as stone chip on front facing surface). Topaz were excellent (and presumably a car park full of mega-super-cars speaks volumes for their owners who are bound to be much more picky than me ...I felt poor there as the next cheapest car was probably an order of magnitude more than mine! Sadly they don't offer a Pagani loaner ...)
Topaz told me to accept the car with any paint faults as they said they would prefer to fix them than whatever the car supplier (any brand) might choose to do. They didn't find anything that needed fixing
I did the Wrap assuming I would be keeping the car a while, and having spent 3x as much on a Tesla than normal I thought more likely that I would be annoyed by stone chips etc. than on my previous A-to-B cars. I've had nice cars before ... in my Youth, eh?
... but latterly A-to-B cars with no care about cleaning them etc.
Whilst wrapping it they removed the badges and I asked them not to bother putting them back on
That was 2 years ago. My observations are:
The car looks smart washed (at supermarket) without polish etc.
I don't rush to remove Bird poo (anywhere on the car) as although it will mark Wrap, eventually, its not the same issue as marking paint. And, heck, if needs be the wrap is easily replaced.
Snuggling up against a rural roadside hedge, or some moron in a car park with a sharp key-point, does no scratch-damage (or, if there are scratches in the wrap some heat, eg. from a hair drier, repairs them)
But for a more impressive, albeit unexpected!, test I was side-swiped by a Range Rover/similar on roundabout (at quite slow speed) and when I got the car home it looked like it had been scraped down a wall - that sort of "white veneer" look. I washed it and apart for a couple of minor dents there was no damage to the paint at all, and after a "heal" with warm air it was impossible to tell there had been any damage, apart from the small dents which didn't show up from a distance.
If it had been my dime, and I wasn't too fussy, I could have lived with the dents. There was no damage to the paintwork at all (but I would have had to replace the wrap around a wheel arch that had torn in the process).
Definitely impressed me
Before:
After a wash:
and with a bit of elbow grease those remaining white marks went too
Someone else has said similar:
Paint film protection can't decide.
"Hi I was in Spain recently and had a coming together with a brick wall on my right front wing ... When I took the wrap off there was not a scratch on the body work so it was well worth the money getting it wrapped."
