Rock Chips and PPF

[JetGray_Mach1]

Hello Folks,
My car is a year old and I have a ceramic coating on it. Noticed I have multiple stone chips on my front end and even on the sides. I was going to get PPF and ceramic coat the whole car but the installer recommended fixing the Chips first. Any recommendations on fixing the rock chips? I am assuming I need to take it to a reputable body shop. Kind of blown away by the amount of rock chips, this is my daily must be all the damn construction by my house

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[Hifiguy]

Hello Folks,
My car is a year old and I have a ceramic coating on it. Noticed I have multiple stone chips on my front end and even on the sides. I was going to get PPF and ceramic coat the whole car but the installer recommended fixing the Chips first. Any recommendations on fixing the rock chips? I am assuming I need to take it to a reputable body shop. Kind of blown away by the amount of rock chips, this is my daily must be all the damn construction by my house

Nope ford paint is garbage, have the same issue with my grabber blue mach 1.

Thought about going the ppf route, but to be honest just going to touch it up with the paint I ordered from the dealer. It is not worth paying 4-5k for the whole body ppf IMO.

For your ppf install I would just buy the touch up pen and take your time, or have the installer do it

 

[imnewhere]

Hello Folks,
My car is a year old and I have a ceramic coating on it. Noticed I have multiple stone chips on my front end and even on the sides. I was going to get PPF and ceramic coat the whole car but the installer recommended fixing the Chips first. Any recommendations on fixing the rock chips? I am assuming I need to take it to a reputable body shop. Kind of blown away by the amount of rock chips, this is my daily must be all the damn construction by my house

I have the same same issue pretty badly. Admittedly my car has 150k miles but it has so many marks. I have been wondering if it was just me.

It’s like this across the entire front of the hood.

 

[JetGray_Mach1]

I have the same same issue pretty badly. Admittedly my car has 150k miles but it has so many marks. I have been wondering if it was just me.

It’s like this across the entire front of the hood.

Damn, yep my 2014 GT at 130K miles was full of them as well. That's why I think PPF is worth it now for my car. Thankfully Its hard to see on the JFG color, my other car was black so it was very visible.

 

[imnewhere]

Damn, yep my 2014 GT at 130K miles was full of them as well. That's why I think PPF is worth it now for my car. Thankfully Its hard to see on the JFG color, my other car was black so it was very visible.

Yeah I would get it before it gets bad. Luckily you can only make out two of the rock marks from over 10 feet away because of the red paint and the rest of them you need to be like 7 feet away or closer to see.

 

[GT 550]

There's a slim chance, depending on severity, that if they were touched up the PPF would mask them to some extent. A basic PPF pack covering the forward facing areas of the mirrors, pillars and roof etc and the leading edge of the rear guard shoudn't cost a fortune and is good roi vs the cost of paint.

 

[Mustangpursuit]

Sometimes repainting a hood or bumper with a decent job can cost less than a top of the line PPF process

 

[Biggus Dickus]

You'll need a respray first - PPF over touched up defects will look like shit

 

[JetGray_Mach1]

Nope ford paint is garbage, have the same issue with my grabber blue mach 1.

Thought about going the ppf route, but to be honest just going to touch it up with the paint I ordered from the dealer. It is not worth paying 4-5k for the whole body ppf IMO.

For your ppf install I would just buy the touch up pen and take your time, or have the installer do it

I am only going to do the front and maybe the side. I think 2K for that would be worth it, 4-5K is a little much I agree.

 

[GrabberBargeCaptain]

Like any other rock chip, touch up paint, either the OEM paint pens or something like Dr. Colorchip.

If i already had a bunch of chips i'd not bother with PPF.

 

[Crew4991]

Hello Folks,
My car is a year old and I have a ceramic coating on it. Noticed I have multiple stone chips on my front end and even on the sides. I was going to get PPF and ceramic coat the whole car but the installer recommended fixing the Chips first. Any recommendations on fixing the rock chips? I am assuming I need to take it to a reputable body shop. Kind of blown away by the amount of rock chips, this is my daily must be all the damn construction by my house

I see you live in southern Cal (miss it so much, someday I will return home), it is just as bad as Colorado with the rock chips since they happen more often in the drier dustier places. AZ was just as bad with pitting and sandblasting on the bumper/windshield.

You can throw money at it if you want to protect it, but unless it is a good quality film the chips will probably still happen. I personally just deal with the chips and touch it up with touchup paint. My mustang is a daily so I have to deal with it but if your car isn't being used as much you will definitely be able to save it!

 

[IanKar]

I had the same issue with the rear fender area. I did PPF the front with the Track package but when I noticed the rear getting chipped up, it was too late to PPF. So I got PPF done with a matt vinyl. For the front though, I don't think this method would look good.

 

[junits15]

If it’s only a few I would use like dr color chip or a touch up kit and just slap the PPF on. you won’t really notice the touch up unless you’re close.

if it’s completely covered in chips I wouldn’t even think about PPF unless you’re going to have the front end resprayed first.

I have the entire front half of my car PPF’d and it’s easily the best thing I’ve ever done. I drive 40 mi a day and have just one chip from a very large rock. The front end is otherwise entirely perfect

 

[FreePenguin]

I put PPF on my 2012 Scion 200k miles ago. Still looks great and the new stuff is way better

I swear by it on a fresh new car but a used one not so much.

 

[Charlemagne]

I did it when I bought it, not a single chip in 8000 miles. It's not about whether it's expensive or not, but whether you care about preserving the paint looking great for a long time or you'll sell the car in a few years (though it raises sell price there too). PPF can be done only on the most exposed parts for rather cheap. Definitely worth it imo. Repaint is always a nuisance. You fix it and have it in a few miles again...

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