Hello fellow Tesla members!
Curious if anyone has any feedback regarding XPEL Wrap on the refresh Model S. I paid about $8k for bumper, hood, fender impact area, along with ceramic coating in Albany NY. This was done 2 years ago, and had the bumper rewrapped 2x since then -
I actually complained to Telsa after the first bumper wrap on initial completion as I thought it was a TELSA issue; but then after Tesla replaced bumper for free and another XPEL Wrap (which I had to pay out of pocket for), the issue popped up again after a future wrap job when they had to replace bumper wrap again for seem issues. On this 2nd wrap attempt, the seems were pretty bad and the installer redid the front bumper again to correct seem issues at the lower lip. During this rewrap is when these paint chips occurred.
From photos, it looks like they trimmed around headlight and chipped paint in 2 spots. Anyone else have similar around their Model S headlamps when doing clear XPEL wrap?
The XPEL vendor/wrap is in Albany NY and has a pretty good reputation from what I can see, or at least is the biggest shop in the area.
They claim to use precut XPEL sheets, and when I mentioned this issue during annual inspection they said I must have caught some rock chips because they only use precut sheets and wouldn’t cut the film like that. Although It occurred during the installation, and you can see how they freehanded the trimming of the wrap Much farther up the headlight itself.
Anyone else run into similar issues on their Model S wrap job? Or am I just catching the unlucky end of the XPEL stick? I feel there are more paint chips caused from the wrap then I would have had without XPEL. Maybe they should have removed the headlights on install for better installation?
Photo shows 2 chips in the headlight area. I also had 4 tiny chips on the impact area from them peeling the original PPF film installed by tesla...they put a glob of unmatched white paint on the large chip, and left the 3 pin hole chips alone. I haven’t even complained about that, but the back PPF has been peeling off as well.
The front license plate also fell off < 1 year of wrapping the bumper, but I chalk that up to the ceramic coating
I have my follow up yearly annnual inspection at end of September in Albany, NY and will follow-up with how it goes! Just curious if anyone else had a similar issues around the headlights, and maybe what they are able to do to correct? If they are just gonna put a glob of unmatched paint, I may goto another XPEL shop to fix under warranty?
Thanks guys! A bit of venting here.
Curious if anyone has any feedback regarding XPEL Wrap on the refresh Model S. I paid about $8k for bumper, hood, fender impact area, along with ceramic coating in Albany NY. This was done 2 years ago, and had the bumper rewrapped 2x since then -
I actually complained to Telsa after the first bumper wrap on initial completion as I thought it was a TELSA issue; but then after Tesla replaced bumper for free and another XPEL Wrap (which I had to pay out of pocket for), the issue popped up again after a future wrap job when they had to replace bumper wrap again for seem issues. On this 2nd wrap attempt, the seems were pretty bad and the installer redid the front bumper again to correct seem issues at the lower lip. During this rewrap is when these paint chips occurred.
From photos, it looks like they trimmed around headlight and chipped paint in 2 spots. Anyone else have similar around their Model S headlamps when doing clear XPEL wrap?
The XPEL vendor/wrap is in Albany NY and has a pretty good reputation from what I can see, or at least is the biggest shop in the area.
They claim to use precut XPEL sheets, and when I mentioned this issue during annual inspection they said I must have caught some rock chips because they only use precut sheets and wouldn’t cut the film like that. Although It occurred during the installation, and you can see how they freehanded the trimming of the wrap Much farther up the headlight itself.
Anyone else run into similar issues on their Model S wrap job? Or am I just catching the unlucky end of the XPEL stick? I feel there are more paint chips caused from the wrap then I would have had without XPEL. Maybe they should have removed the headlights on install for better installation?
Photo shows 2 chips in the headlight area. I also had 4 tiny chips on the impact area from them peeling the original PPF film installed by tesla...they put a glob of unmatched white paint on the large chip, and left the 3 pin hole chips alone. I haven’t even complained about that, but the back PPF has been peeling off as well.
The front license plate also fell off < 1 year of wrapping the bumper, but I chalk that up to the ceramic coating
I have my follow up yearly annnual inspection at end of September in Albany, NY and will follow-up with how it goes! Just curious if anyone else had a similar issues around the headlights, and maybe what they are able to do to correct? If they are just gonna put a glob of unmatched paint, I may goto another XPEL shop to fix under warranty?
Thanks guys! A bit of venting here.