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Further to previous posts I thought I would start a new one. Not sure about my friendly americans, but up here in Canada the only 3M protective film product for our malibu's is a $150 CDN piece that goes on THE HOOD ONLY!!!
No front clip protection....Well sorry for me that is not good enough, so the fun began.....
The guy I use to tint the windows on my vehicles (does an AMAZING JOB!) also does the 3M protective film, called him on Friday and was talking to him about custom job's.
Brought the car by and we talked about it, so we came to the conclusion that in order to have maximum protection (since 95% of my driving is all highway driving) we would coat the front of the car as shown below.
He is giving me a good deal on it ($450 CDN) considering the piece for just the hood is almost $200 with taxes, he said he would give me a good price, based on the fact he has not done a malibu yet, although there is not a lot of film being used, customer cutting it is going to take quite a long time.
So it has been booked for Thursday, I am very excited, since when I was looking at the car on Friday I have noticed already to fair sized "stone chips" in the front clip and on the hood. I have the touch up paint and he has offered to touch it up for me before he apply's the film.
I will take some pic's of it done, but from everything I have seen, it is not noticable at all.
Outlined below in red is the area that will be protected (Only painted surfaces though).
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PHOTO CREDIT --> Purplemyst79 - (hope you don't mind I used your image, it was the best angle pic available)
Further to previous posts I thought I would start a new one. Not sure about my friendly americans, but up here in Canada the only 3M protective film product for our malibu's is a $150 CDN piece that goes on THE HOOD ONLY!!!
No front clip protection....Well sorry for me that is not good enough, so the fun began.....
The guy I use to tint the windows on my vehicles (does an AMAZING JOB!) also does the 3M protective film, called him on Friday and was talking to him about custom job's.
Brought the car by and we talked about it, so we came to the conclusion that in order to have maximum protection (since 95% of my driving is all highway driving) we would coat the front of the car as shown below.
He is giving me a good deal on it ($450 CDN) considering the piece for just the hood is almost $200 with taxes, he said he would give me a good price, based on the fact he has not done a malibu yet, although there is not a lot of film being used, customer cutting it is going to take quite a long time.
So it has been booked for Thursday, I am very excited, since when I was looking at the car on Friday I have noticed already to fair sized "stone chips" in the front clip and on the hood. I have the touch up paint and he has offered to touch it up for me before he apply's the film.
I will take some pic's of it done, but from everything I have seen, it is not noticable at all.
Outlined below in red is the area that will be protected (Only painted surfaces though).
PHOTO CREDIT --> Purplemyst79 - (hope you don't mind I used your image, it was the best angle pic available)
