It's mid-June and my copy of Classic and Sportscar has reached deepest France.
In it I've found a full-page advert for a company called Bespoke Paint Protect Ltd that offers to use 'total car wrapping' to coat your vehicle with an invisible paint-protection thermoplastic called VentureShield that will 'withstand years of stone-chipping, aggressive abrasion from the environment and track day or off-road events'. It allegedly has a lifetime guarantee and has been 'rigorously tested and approved around the world with leading OEMs such as Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Ford and GM'.
This coating is said to safeguard bodywork integrity and maintain the car's asset value (although there's no mention of what happens when panels rust through from inside).
This service costs 3,500 pounds inclusive, or 995 pounds for just bumpers and side skirts.
The firm has a website.
I guess if you've just spent 150,000 pounds on an Aston Martin DB5 this seems a pretty cheap way to keep it shiny, but it seems a bit steep to me.
Anybody heard of the stuff or knows what it's like?
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Not sure if its the same stuff but Auto Express did a feature few weeks back on a company that basically wrapped your car in strong cling film that would protect all your bodywork from scrapes, chips etc.
But when I look at the adverts in my local specialist cars garage, the average Ferrari, Lambo, Bentley etc seems to only cover a couple of thousand miles a year anyway so little chance of getting too much damage!
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Yes, guess you're right - but I still think they haven't thought about panels on classic cars rusting through from behind. Believe me, they do!
You're quite right on the 'two thousand miles a year' point. I've often wondered why Ferraris (for example) allegedly need cambelts every two years when 99 per cent of them never go very far. What sort of cut-price engineering needs to be treated like that? Or are the belts such poor quality that they just perish away?
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Not much good near me - my neighbours brats scribble on cars with biros
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Maybe it´s biro-proof.
For a grand I would expect it to be bomb proof!
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There are numerous similar offerings:
www.splashgroup.co.uk/motor.html
www.clean-image.co.uk/paintsealant/paint_protectio...m
www.wicked-valeting.co.uk/paint_protection.htm
www.eurochem.co.uk/products.php?categories_id=9
I seem to remember a thread quite a while back on the subject concerning dealership offers on such treatments.
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Yes I know but I think this is different - they are Diamond Brite-type treatments, which my car has, coincidentally (although I didn't pay for it).
This seems to be a sort of clingfilm to go all over the car - at a cost of three thousand five hundred pounds.
Apparently the cost includes having it taken off again if you wish - but why would you if you'd paid that much unless you weren't happy with it?
It all seems a bit over my head. Does anyone know anybody who has had this done?
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>>This seems to be a sort of clingfilm to go all over the car >>
Try Makro. We got a 300 metre long by 30.5cm wide catering roll of Aro clingfilm for about £2 three or four years ago - it's still going strong..:-)
Probably enough still left, in fact, to do my Bora.
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Also known as paint lacquer? £3.5k would buy quite a presentable respray, I should have thought. This is for the sort of people who leave the plastic on their door trims to stop them from getting scuffed!
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>>>>(although there's no mention of what happens when panels rust through from inside).<<<<<<<<<<
How about filling them with ultra-seal before they puncture :-)
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