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What are the disadvantages of PPF?

Name: What are the disadvantages of PPF?
Uploaded: 2025-01-15
Duration: 23 s
Description: It costs more than a coating, the result depends heavily on the installer, and it is not permanent. Those are the disadvantages worth weighing. The rest of the list you find online belongs to cheap film.

It costs more than a coating, the result depends heavily on the installer, and it is not permanent. Those are the disadvantages worth weighing. The rest of the list you find online belongs to cheap film.

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What are the disadvantages of PPF? — Ceramic Pro video

▶Ceramic Pro video · 23s

Real disadvantages

Upfront cost. From $899 for the bumper and headlights to $4,990 for the whole car. Cheaper than one respray over the life of the car, but paid on day one.
It is a hand-installed product. The room, the prep and the edges decide the result. Choose the shop, not the brand.
It has a life. 10 years warrantied on Ceramic Pro Urban, lifetime on Ceramic Pro PPF, and eventually replaced. The paint under it stays new.

Not real disadvantages

Yellowing: only cheap film.
Peeling: only unwrapped or overstretched edges.
Paint damage at removal: only resprayed panels or film left far past its life.
"You can see it": only when edges are not wrapped.

How to avoid the avoidable ones

Ask which film, whether edges are wrapped, and where the install happens. We use Ceramic Pro film, wrap every edge, install in a closed climate-controlled bay, and include a $549 Ceramic Pro coating with every Full Front and Full Body.

From our bay in Davie

38 clips of PPF and Ceramic Pro going on, filmed in the shop at 5150 SW 48th Way, Unit 614. Scroll sideways.

PPF install · in the bay

Squeegee across the panel

Film squeegeed over the panel

Film worked around the fender

Film smoothed along the edge

Ceramic Pro application · in the bay

Coating applied by hand

Product worked into the panel

Water beads on the paint

Water runs straight off

Soap and water slide away

Full Front PPF from $1,799 — free $549 ceramic coating included

Ceramic Pro Urban or Ceramic Pro PPF film, installed in our own climate-controlled bay in Davie. Every Full Front and Full Body install includes a Ceramic Pro coating at no charge, so the film stays glossy and easy to wash.

See Full Front PPF pricing (786) 876-7891

Partial Front from $899 Full Front from $1,799 Track Package from $2,590 Full Body from $4,990

Elite Premium Detailing · 5150 SW 48th Way, Unit 614, Davie, FL 33314 · right by the Hard Rock Hotel