Paint protection?

bertieduff · Post by **bertieduff** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:00 am

Gettin new clams and a re-spray at the mo from those nice people at MMC. Can anyone tell me tho.....Armourfend/defendall...is there much difference between them, is it worth doing, and how visible is it....? Didn't have it before and the nose got pretty tatty admittedly...comments appreciated!

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:14 am

http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... armourfend

should be a good place to start.

IMO - its too expensive for me to justify as my clams are so tatty, since you're getting new ones and a nice respray, could be a good investment depending what it costs.

I also have a 10%-off contact in armourfend if you need.

Cheers,

Greg

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:41 am

Just got quoted £399.50 inc VAT by Tint Haus for defendall. Front clam of an S1. Seems reasonable to me....

bertieduff · Post by **bertieduff** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:05 pm

cheers guys...haven't seem this stuff in the flesh..can u tell me how visible these films are tho...had a look at the armourfend diagrams...the nose film seems to stop a couple of inches above the badge..doesn't this leave a dirty great line across the bonnet? Would've thought it more sensible to make them to correspond with the 'panel gaps'.
The car had some sort of film on the sills previously (dunno wot) and that was pretty awful looking..don't want to fork out for something that's gonna spoil my nice shiny paintwork...?

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:14 pm

defendall looks sweet. ed's got it. cant see the edges unless you really look

Post by **Shug** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:18 pm

Tom wrote:defendall looks sweet. ed's got it. cant see the edges unless you really look

Yup, can vouch for that. Would have sworn the white mark on Ed's bonnet was something on top of the paint, until I realised that it was the armourfend split and lifted....

Nothing to do with the bricks that were launched off my undertray at him on the dukes pass at all.....

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:58 pm

Shug wrote:Nothing to do with the bricks that were launched off my undertray at him on the dukes pass at all.....

You mean that gravel car park you moved 50 yards up the road for him to hit...

Post by **Shug** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:01 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:
Shug wrote:Nothing to do with the bricks that were launched off my undertray at him on the dukes pass at all.....
You mean that gravel car park you moved 50 yards up the road for him to hit...

I was gritting the road - it's a safety thing.....

It gets icy up there you know.....

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:07 pm

I noticed your car was sliding about quite alot...

Post by **simon** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:45 pm

Any reason you're getting a full respray?

bertieduff · Post by **bertieduff** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:34 pm

Not because it was girly purple, if that's wot ur thinkin! Some genius rear-ended me, so it's an insurance job. MMC said oh, the damage is only cosmetic..that'll be £12k. Nearly fell off me seat!

Glad I ain't payin for that one..

Scottd · Post by **Scottd** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:44 am

bertieduff wrote:Not because it was girly purple, if that's wot ur thinkin! Some genius rear-ended me, so it's an insurance job. MMC said oh, the damage is only cosmetic..that'll be £12k. Nearly fell off me seat! Glad I ain't payin for that one..

I'm almost positive I saw your car in JMGroup in Perth last Thursday, rear clam was off.

Check the undertrays when you get it back!

bertieduff · Post by **bertieduff** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:27 am

yeah that would be my baby...did u have any joy with them and your little incident scott?

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:42 am

bertieduff wrote:Gettin new clams and a re-spray at the mo from those nice people at MMC. Can anyone tell me tho.....Armourfend/defendall...is there much difference between them, is it worth doing, and how visible is it....? Didn't have it before and the nose got pretty tatty admittedly...comments appreciated!

I had Armourfend on my Elise, now have Defendall on the Exige. Not much to choose between them. Think defendall is a bit cheaper, and covers a slightly larger area on the front of the car, so is probably the one to go for. Both are near invisible on a silver car, but the edges may show a bit more on a darker colour. Definitely worth doing I reckon.

Mark

Post by **simon** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:40 pm

I thought it showed up worse on lighter cars as you can see the edges once they get dirty. I think PhilA has Defendall and got an extra bit for the sill behind the Lotus-supplied stuff as it misses the worst affected bit!

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