Not sure you can do that because of the heat than can be produced from the brakes. And it would be a lot of work fitting around all the curves of the spokes. But they certainly put ceramic coating on them.
Find another installer. A good quality PPF shop should have no problems doing individual strips over the matte stripes. Here is my car with XPEL Stealth over the stock matte stripes.
that is one sexy car.. love the group photo as well...Find another installer. A good quality PPF shop should have no problems doing individual strips over the matte stripes. Here is my car with XPEL Stealth over the stock matte stripes.
I would go somewhere else. Normally they are able to do it over the top. The only exception some shops have made is that they will cut around the stripes to ovoid the overlap of the seams...
That was actually at the PPF shop when I picked up my car. They had 4 Shelbys that week all getting PPF...it was pretty funny.
The right way to do it is to put the stripe over the ppf. You can put it over the stripe but you may have issues at the edges. Also, if you ever want/need to remove the stripe you would have to have the ppf redone.
How does that protect the stripes?
It doesn't. The stripes are vinyl not paint. You can absolutely put the ppf over vinyl stripes, xpel even says so on their faq's. The problem is, as they also point out, you can have issues because of the hard edge between the paint and the vinyl. Also, you couldn't remove the stripes with out having to replace all the ppf that was on top of it. I have heard of some places cutting around the stripes. I dont know how that looks but, I guess like anything, it would depend on the quality of the install.
Have you looked at how much the stripes cost from Ford to replace? They're easily subjected to rock chips just as much as the paint is. To me it makes no sense to remove the stripes, PPF the car, then add new stripes on top that are going to be unprotected.
I didn't buy my stripes from Ford (and wouldn't) so I have no idea. Vinyl is not going to chip like paint, that doesn't even make sense.
Looks good. Is there ppf on the roof stripe and back side too? Also how did they do the red accent part?Find another installer. A good quality PPF shop should have no problems doing individual strips over the matte stripes. Here is my car with XPEL Stealth over the stock matte stripes.
Ya all the stripes have Xpel Stealth and the car is full Xpel PPF. They basically run the regular PPF up until the end of the red pinstripes, then the matte stripes are covered with stealth. It's a tedious process but again the stripes can get damaged so personally for me it makes sense to protect them as well.
