Anyone with a 4x4 do a full PPF install?

I want to do full satin PPF on my gloss black 4x4 or satin black color PPF but the quotes I'm getting are insane.

One shop quoted me $20K (WTF!), another $15K, and the lowest quote I have got is $10K.

These are high end shops in SD/OC area.

$10K is still too much but that's reasonable compared to $15-20K

 

$20k is super high but the $15k is in the ballpark for a shop that does a proper job wrapping the panels to ensure no seams or lines are visible. If you have not done the Stealth/Satin PPF before I have found that it costs 50%-75% more than normal clear PPF to do. My standard G63 had the full matte PPF installed for $13k about 3 years ago. I had a Cayenne quoted for normal full PPF and it was $6k then asked to quote Stealth PPF and it was $9k so that uncharge for the matte look is on all vehicles.

 

I was on the fence about coatings until I read this thread. The car washes and rock chips be damned, I'm going to find out just how this magno mercedes paint stands up!

 

I just got a magno olive and was wondering if a full ppf would keep me from having to worry about the fading you read about/see on some of the magno finishes? And whether doing it in stealth would be cool or cause some sort of decibel stealth matte mess…? Opinions welcome.

 

So you think it’s good for the magno colors? Any thoughts on whether doing a stealth ppf would be overkill?

 

We had our 26 Magno Hyper Blue stealth PPF’d and we are super happy so far. It is just a piece of mind having it all protected.

 

We had full PPF applied to the entire vehicle and then had it ceramic coated on top of that. We also had windshield protection film applied to the front windshield, once XPEL came out with that product as well.

It is a clear PPF, so it just looks like the factory paint; you can't tell that there is PPF applied to the vehicle unless you get right up on the paint by looking for the edges of the PPF. They are applied in giant sheets, so there are not many edges.

The vehicle has taken hits from rock chips to the driver's blinker, which I have replaced. The driver's mirror housing that I think I might be able to buff out, 10+ divots on the grill guard, where rock chips have taken off the paint, exposing the metal. XPEL doesn't PPF the grill guard.

So I'm assuming from the amount of rock chips the vehicle has taken to the unprotected areas of the vehicle, that the PPF has saved me numerous times. The paint is pristine.