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Originally Posted by clutchdj
I only see scratches on the black plastic trim. If that’s what the OP is talking about then that should be buffed out and can be buffed out with a one step or two step method. Any decent PPF installer should be able to do it. not unusual on black plastic trim.
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So that’s all I could see as well, but I just got off the phone with the installer. In the video, you can see the scratches where the light hits the trim, but the rest of the piece looks fine. Unfortunately, he confirmed that the entire piece is just as bad — it’s only noticeable when the light hits it directly, which is why it doesn’t show up clearly in the video.
Although I haven’t gotten a video of it yet, he also mentioned that all of the window trim — the piano black-looking pieces — are scratched up pretty badly too, along with the rear diffuser. I’m still not totally sure how this happened, but it sounds like it was likely just a poor prep job by the dealer when the car was first received from the factory — since it typically only gets detailed once during that initial intake.
He gave me two options for moving forward. Normally, when they do a full matte stealth PPF conversion, they leave the gloss black trim exposed to create a little contrast. In that case (Option 1), they’d just polish the trim to clean up the swirl marks and leave it unwrapped. Option 2 would be to polish it and then apply a layer of clear gloss PPF over the trim to prevent future scratching.
There’d be an additional charge for Option 2 — about $300 — since the original scope only included the matte film and didn’t account for wrapping those gloss pieces.
My gut says we should just do the front trim and skip the window trim and rear diffuser — wrapping all of it feels like overkill. But I’m open to other opinions here. Curious what others would do in this situation.