Adamrx11
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2024 race red GT convertible with every package but Recaro seats, including PP, Magnaride, 401a, AVE, NPP. My first sports car, first V8, and I absolutely adore it. Planning to replace with carbon fiber the top hood vent, steering wheel, side skirts, grille nostrils, door handles, chin splitter, and rear diffusers that surround the quad exhaust once the factory pieces start showing some wear. The entire car is ppf including the black grille flat piece and nostrils, the outer flat edge of the hood vent, even the head lights. All else - vert top, wheels, side skirts, back diffusers, brake calipers, chin splitter, tail lights, brake lights, side reflectors, the wind shield glass exterior, have been ceramic coated. All interior vinyl trims and the seats have a ceramic coat, even the touchscreen has a ppf screen protector. To say I've invested in this thing after the fact is an understatement, but the car looks clean and shiny at all times
Well shoot. I tinted the front wind shield 70%, the back windshield 55%, the side windows 25%. I also blacked out the tail lights, brake lights, and side reflectors the darkest smoke shade. The side windows at 25 are fine - with the factory tint they come out to around 17. In the garage the front and back windshields look great, but in day light, i can honestly barely tell when i look at it or even when driving. I will be driving it in darkness at 4am tomorrow morning but don't anticipate that changing my mind. And after leaving my car outside all day in 90 degree heat, yes it's not baking like it was, but still not as cool as I wanted it or as dark as I thought it would be. On top of that, someone keyed my car from wheel well to wheel well last weekend before i left on a trip for a week. The entire car has ppf, but it looks like it may have penetrated thru to the paint near the trunk. He even keyed thru the 5.0 decal. The shop tried the heat gun but it was too deep ac scratch to mage a difference. They also scratched my left A frame installing the tint. The replaced is 250 from the dealership parts department and so be deducted from my final bill. My insurance rate is awesome, only 130 a month, so I'm seeing what the body shop can do to hook it up so i don't have to involve insurance. I know they aren't supposed to raise your rates for no fault comprehensive claims, but i don't want to mess around and find out. I even had the piano black flat piece and hood vent ppf as well for extra cost and to clean easy and protect from rock chips, anything not ppf like calipers, wheels, vert top, are all ceramic coated. I'm devastated to say the least. To remove half the car ppf and replace it is 2600 but I'm hoping if i also decide to redo all windows to a darker shade they will knock down the price. I'm definitely getting a dashcam with sentry mode so i have a chance to catch the thug if it happens again. But I'm terrified if it penetrated thru the ppf and sliced the paint, bc i always hear the factory paint color and clear coat can never be duplicated after the fact and then I'll have to involve insurance. I did file bc a police report but there's nothing they can do since no cameras..
So my questions...
the tint and ppf used is Kavaca supposedly the best on the market but only 8-9mm, should I be going for a brand that makes thicker ppf like 12 mm so next time a key won't slice thru it?
What is the best dash cam with sentry mode?
Are there any products on the market that can smooth out or hide scratches made on any of the interior black plastic pieces like the A-frame or plastic on the bottom inside of the door or bottom plastic near the side trim that says MUSTANG when you open the door?
What tint shade should i do this go around instead? I was going to redo the back wind shield to 25 to match the sides and blacked out lights, but am thinking of going darker at 15% all around. Should i lower the windshield to 55% or since i can b
arely tell the back at 55% should I be going 35% on the front and 25% on the back to match the side windows or 15% if i decide to go even darker on the side windows ? And pictures the front windshield actually looks much darker than it is in real life and especially when driving I can tell almost no difference and I still can feel heat coming off the windshield and my steering wheel was still hot as hell when I got in it after leaving it in 90° weather all day which was the main point I was trying to solve getting all of this tinted.
Any help is greatly appreciated. First pics are in the shop, second pics outside, and whatva noticeable difference. I'm already so mad at myself for picking the wrong tint shade, so please help me do better this time. With the keyed damage that i have to fix especially if the ppf didn't save the paint, i can't afford to di this a 3rd time. the last 3 photos are some of the keyed damage. I'm also taking to the building manager and owner this week about being allowed to break my lease early without penalty to move some place else with a garage since I'm afraid it'll happen again once i get everything fixed. That's on me for not making sure there were available garages but I had initially planned to move back to Las Vegas by now so this was only supposed to be a short few months stay. I'm also considering a car cover but that would be very hard to take on and off since this is my daily driver and i just had my shoulder labrum reatached with the next shoulder up next in 6 weeks. . But I also have issues with sprinklers in my assigned parking spot because I found out the hard way that hard water spots are permanent on ppf and ceramic coat. Otherwise it would have been parked there and this thug probably wouldn't have done what he did. Does anyone have any ideas on what shade of tint I should go with this time or any other ideas regarding fixing the keyed areas and a recommendation a dash cam and if there is any product on the market fit water spots removal so i don't have to strip the entire car.... although i may take this oppor to add a double white or black racing stripe this time too since it all has to come off anyway...please say something and help me out because I'm so stressed out and depressed to the max over this right now. Thank you for reading my novel of issues and problems.
Well shoot. I tinted the front wind shield 70%, the back windshield 55%, the side windows 25%. I also blacked out the tail lights, brake lights, and side reflectors the darkest smoke shade. The side windows at 25 are fine - with the factory tint they come out to around 17. In the garage the front and back windshields look great, but in day light, i can honestly barely tell when i look at it or even when driving. I will be driving it in darkness at 4am tomorrow morning but don't anticipate that changing my mind. And after leaving my car outside all day in 90 degree heat, yes it's not baking like it was, but still not as cool as I wanted it or as dark as I thought it would be. On top of that, someone keyed my car from wheel well to wheel well last weekend before i left on a trip for a week. The entire car has ppf, but it looks like it may have penetrated thru to the paint near the trunk. He even keyed thru the 5.0 decal. The shop tried the heat gun but it was too deep ac scratch to mage a difference. They also scratched my left A frame installing the tint. The replaced is 250 from the dealership parts department and so be deducted from my final bill. My insurance rate is awesome, only 130 a month, so I'm seeing what the body shop can do to hook it up so i don't have to involve insurance. I know they aren't supposed to raise your rates for no fault comprehensive claims, but i don't want to mess around and find out. I even had the piano black flat piece and hood vent ppf as well for extra cost and to clean easy and protect from rock chips, anything not ppf like calipers, wheels, vert top, are all ceramic coated. I'm devastated to say the least. To remove half the car ppf and replace it is 2600 but I'm hoping if i also decide to redo all windows to a darker shade they will knock down the price. I'm definitely getting a dashcam with sentry mode so i have a chance to catch the thug if it happens again. But I'm terrified if it penetrated thru the ppf and sliced the paint, bc i always hear the factory paint color and clear coat can never be duplicated after the fact and then I'll have to involve insurance. I did file bc a police report but there's nothing they can do since no cameras..
So my questions...
the tint and ppf used is Kavaca supposedly the best on the market but only 8-9mm, should I be going for a brand that makes thicker ppf like 12 mm so next time a key won't slice thru it?
What is the best dash cam with sentry mode?
Are there any products on the market that can smooth out or hide scratches made on any of the interior black plastic pieces like the A-frame or plastic on the bottom inside of the door or bottom plastic near the side trim that says MUSTANG when you open the door?
What tint shade should i do this go around instead? I was going to redo the back wind shield to 25 to match the sides and blacked out lights, but am thinking of going darker at 15% all around. Should i lower the windshield to 55% or since i can b
Any help is greatly appreciated. First pics are in the shop, second pics outside, and whatva noticeable difference. I'm already so mad at myself for picking the wrong tint shade, so please help me do better this time. With the keyed damage that i have to fix especially if the ppf didn't save the paint, i can't afford to di this a 3rd time. the last 3 photos are some of the keyed damage. I'm also taking to the building manager and owner this week about being allowed to break my lease early without penalty to move some place else with a garage since I'm afraid it'll happen again once i get everything fixed. That's on me for not making sure there were available garages but I had initially planned to move back to Las Vegas by now so this was only supposed to be a short few months stay. I'm also considering a car cover but that would be very hard to take on and off since this is my daily driver and i just had my shoulder labrum reatached with the next shoulder up next in 6 weeks. . But I also have issues with sprinklers in my assigned parking spot because I found out the hard way that hard water spots are permanent on ppf and ceramic coat. Otherwise it would have been parked there and this thug probably wouldn't have done what he did. Does anyone have any ideas on what shade of tint I should go with this time or any other ideas regarding fixing the keyed areas and a recommendation a dash cam and if there is any product on the market fit water spots removal so i don't have to strip the entire car.... although i may take this oppor to add a double white or black racing stripe this time too since it all has to come off anyway...please say something and help me out because I'm so stressed out and depressed to the max over this right now. Thank you for reading my novel of issues and problems.
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