Yeah - it can be removed at any time. Apparently using a hair drier to gently heat the film as you're removing it helps a lot.
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Yeah - it can be removed at any time. Apparently using a hair drier to gently heat the film as you're removing it helps a lot.
ok so from heat it comes off ? been in SA it might be a bit of an issue ... one of the reasons I dont get leatherQuote:
Originally Posted by coreying
sun is burning!!! :eek:
No, not at all. I just meant, don't put the hair drier on full blast and hold it in the one area, because otherwise you might leave a heat mark on the clear coat of the paint!
There is no way that heat from the sun would cause Paint Protection Film to come off on its own, and certainly not in a location as 'cool' as South Australia!
Paint Protection Film was actually first developed as a coating for the blades of miltary helicopters working in desert areas such as during The Gulf War. The film was designed to protect the blades from sandblasting.
The film itself uses Mylar - which was (is still?) used in the construction of the tiles on the space shuttle to provide heat resistance during re-entry of the earths atmosphere.
Using a hair drier just makes the adhesive more pliable and more likely to come off with the PPF instead of staying on the cars surface during removal. You still need to give the PPF a rather decent and constant pull to get it to come off :)
A few questions,
1. Does the sheen match the duco
2. Do dead bugs wash of easier?
3. Do you still have to treat it like normal duco eg wash n polish etc?
once i saw a ford with film on the engine bonnet. as it's been a lot of years, there are a lot of holes on the film and under the holes the bonnet turned to yellow (too dirty?)
no idea why the car owner didn't take this thing off...looks ugly
That sounds like the clear coat of the car coming off, not a film like ppf.Quote:
Originally Posted by roy
YesQuote:
Originally Posted by soogs
Maybe
Yes/No
You just wash it and you can use a number of plastic cleaners if you want (check out www.ducoscratch.com.au as they recommend one) and you can wax it but don't use anything with yellow wax as that will stain it.
Thanks Mav.
Hey BTW has anyone noticed that the post counter has stopped working?
Which post counter?
Must be due to the server upgrade they are doing..