Tesla farmed the work out to Metropolitan Detail in Bellevue, WA.How did your paint armor turn out? And where'd you take it?
Looks great (of course just a wash helps that...) but the real test is to see how it looks in a year, or two, or seven. Unfortunately, Seattle only has sunshine when I'm occupied at work -- and even then it's brief. So no pictures of interest yet.
The options and pricing choices were as I described in the previous post. I'm generally a frugal person, and then spend a stack of cash on concentrated purchases. Model S was one of them. After significant mulling over, the Xpel full wrap for the Model S was another of them.
My decision-making process was something like this. Incoming stream of consciousness...
If you're ever going to apply the paint armor, do it early not late. If you don't do any armor, you might regret it if you plan to keep the car for 10+ years (which I do). I'm lazy about keeping my car clean and my impression is that that more lazy you are about it, the more likely the cleaning process itself will do damage to the vehicle's skin when you do finally get around to it. If you do a full wrap, it easily reaches $3k, and perhaps $4k. Metropolitan Detail includes a wax job every three months with the Xpel wrap purchase (product itself carries a 10yr warranty); so that grows the "value" of the wrap purchase somewhat. Finally, the pure financial: it's within available budget (no loans or CC debt required, etc.) and "A year from now will I regret not saving the money more, or not spending the money more?" This round, "just spend it" won out.
@hvb - Hopefully that rambling post was useful, or at least interesting.