Besides, paint armor will show dings too... I think the factory paint armor takes care of most of what most people need. And you are getting protection before the car leaves the factory, done by Tesla. I think a lot of people would prefer Tesla armor over after market because its done by Tesla at the factory.
wrong. the quality of the paint armor and that quality of the install of the paint armor that Tesla uses at factory is complete crap.
Many are not keen on risking a $100,000 car to some vehicle wrap place, no matter what their reputation (how many undetectable razor nicks did they do to your paint during the trimming process?).
wrong. a lot of these are precut templates for many of the pieces. they have giant rolls of film that go through machines using templates provided by the film manufacturer and the are cut exactly to fit the pieces. so no razors for cutting. for places that do full wraps (not using templates), if its a very reputable shop working on $100k+ cars only daily, these guys are pros. they don't screw up and leave razor marks. they know what they are doing.
And after market body wraps may actually decrease the value of a car because future buyers have no idea what materials were used and how well the job was done, even if you show them a receipt.
wrong. by protecting the paint, the value of the car goes up, not down.
The issue over the line from the partial covering of the hood is WAY over blown.
you must have never seen a car with the half film hood. its complete and utter $hit. why anyone would choose to have their car look like this is beyond me. its quite horrific looking.
As has been noted elsewhere, Tesla elected to not cover the whole hood because it makes the whole hood color look slightly different than the rest of the car.
back to point #1, that's because the film that Tesla uses is complete crap. I have XPEL Ultimate on the full front of my car and you cannot tell what pieces have film and what pieces don't. its so clear you cannot see it unless I point it out. this is completely different than the crap film that Tesla uses where you can easily see discoloration and the edges.
By doing the only the lower and mostly curved area of the hood, the color change is less noticeable than covering the whole hood. The subtle change in color and albedo in curved areas is less obvious...the same reason there's been few complaints about the lines on other covered areas of the car.
I don't know where you got this info from. again you must never have seen a tesla with the factory PPF. you can spot it a mile away. its far from subtle. looks more like vandalism and having a giant key mark straight across the hood.
BTW I don't know where you are getting the $5k-$7k numbers from. that must be from full wraps on the west coast. you can get that out here for half the price. and if you only do like I did (full front), it's basically down to almost the same price as from the factory, except using much higher quality film (XPEL Ultimate) and also having the full hood covered. and get a coating for the rest of the car (opticoat, 22ple, etc).
I would stay very far away from the factory PPF. bad film. and the installers seem amateurish as well leaving stretch marks and everything. much better to go aftermarket. besides, you're probably going to need a paint correction done anyway as soon as you get the car and you can't do that if you have factory PPF on