You guys are really starting to worry me.
Do real people in real life actually put this much thought, care, attention, and money toward keeping a new car looking nice? I honestly have never heard of wrapping or clear coat or whatever crap you guys are on about before I came to this forum. At least not solely for preserving the paint job.
Is this something I should be looking into? Are wraps common? Are you guys the only 10-15 people who will be going to these great lengths to maintain the paint job, or is this something everybody who buys a 3 will be doing? Is this only really common on super expensive luxury cars?
Everybody I know who has bought a new car just buys it and drives it. Maybe go to the car wash every couple months while it's new to keep it looking new, but eventually realizes it's a car that spends a lot of time outside and soon the car washes become more and more infrequent until acceptance of the inevitable sets in. It's a car. It will not stay perfect forever, and you will spend a lot of money and time and stress trying to keep it that way.
Are you guys buying this car to drive it? Or to park it on display on a giant pedestal in front of your house?
Is the intent to sell it as soon as possible to stay up with newer models? Seems like a lot of work and money to have to buy and sell a car every three years, on top of constantly worrying about resale value, freaking out over aesthetic maintenance, and biting your nails every time you return to your car in a crowded parking lot in a shady area of town. What happens then if you get a ding or back into a snowbank? Does that flush all this hard work keeping the paint pristine down the drain?
This is all insane to me.