How Bad is it? 28k Miles with No Paint Protection C8 Corvette!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Hello all. So its time to check out how the paint looks on the C8 Corvette after 28,000 Miles. I never installed Paint Protection Film, or PPF for short, and its time to see how many paint chips the C8 has collected and check out how effective two different paint chip repair kits can be at covering these up. Its a lot of good information and a good how a good paint chip repair kit can save your car from costly repaint work if you never installed PPF. Enjoy!
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TIMELINE:
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Paint Evaluation Post 28k Miles
1:39 Prepping Front Bumper Surface
2:08 AC Delco vs Dr Color Chip
2:18 AC Delco Apply How-to
3:39 Dr Colorchip Apply How-To
5:13 Best Paint Chip Repair Method to Use
5:54 Dr Color Chip Final Results
6:41 AC Delco Final Results
7:46 RESULTS SUMMARY
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Always enjoy your videos. Very informative and you are well spoken. But I have to give you a super high thumbs up for the graphics you show during your posts. IMO they are the most professional looking graphic overlays I’ve ever seen. Keep at it and hopefully your subscriber base will grow.
This channel is vastly underrated... Carlos is top notch with his C8 content.
Thanks for the feedback bud! 🙏
I definitely agree. People need to sub! Very informative!
Appreciate the support!! 🙏
with the cost of PPF I can buy quarts of touch up paint
That’s a lot of pair chips. maybe your driving to close to the car in front of you. Great informative video thanks for doing the tests and providing the info
Thanks for the feedback 👍. Yeah one would think its due to traveling close to a car in front but I generally dont minus the car rallies where we ride in tight formations. The TX roads where I live are notorious for having just alot of debris that gets kicked up. And you run into situations where a person comes into your lane right in front and something gets kicked up from it. Ive had two windshield chips from such a thing happening in the past with one requiring a full windshieldd replacement. It happens 🤷♂️.
Good job! I've used Dr Colorchip on many of my vehicles and for the money and ease of use it's the best I have used. Definitely recommend PPF!
Thanks for the feedback Jeff! Def was a game changer when filling chips. But lesson learned, PPF is the way to go!
@@NuHorizonC8 But why? You just spent less than $100 on Dr. ColorChip and got a 98% clear bumper / hood. A full PPF front end package costs $2,400 on a C8. And you're still going to see most of those chips on the film. And you won't be able to get them off without removing the film and replacing it. Worse case you can spend a fraction of that $2.400 on a professional paint correction every so often. What am I missing?
Thank you 4 the review.
No problem glad it could be useful! 🙏
thank you, great video!!
Thanks glad you enjoyed it! 😎👍
Thanks for doing this. Always thought the factory kit would be best. Ordering the other kit. Excellent DIY. Let's get you some subscribers.
Glad I could help! Slow and steady growth is the name of the game. I'm planning to keep doing this for many years to come. 😎
My C8 was PPFed the first week. I got one chip that went through. great video :)
Ouch went through the PPF?! I could only imagine if you didnt have it! And thanks for the compliment! 🙏😎
Nice video thank you bro...
Glad you liked it bro! Much appreciated 🙏🙏
Good video. Definitely shows why PPF is one of the best investments to spend on a car. It's not cheap but well worth it for many reasons.
Thanks for the feedback and for sure! Worth the investment and something ill personally be having installed moving forward.
Given the fact the C8 is so low to the ground everything the traffic in front kicks up hits the C8’s front end and hood.
When I received my C8 in mid April it sat in the garage for two weeks waiting for my scheduled XPEL PPF appointment to have the entire front end and rockers wrapped. I had my C7 wrapped in 2015 and in 6 years before I sold it I put 33,000 roadtrip miles on it and the front-end took hundreds of hits some were fairly big rocks, ZERO paint damage.
Thanks for that info! Yeah its definitely crazy how many hits you can rack up over the miles. It never really occurred to me when I first purchased this car brand new and really wanted to showcase the car at different show events and such. And was a big learned lesson to not skimp out on that option.
The C7 front end is much lower than the C8.
First place I took my c8 was to get the PPF…A pillar forward…it sat in the garage for 2 weeks waiting for the appt. Your content validated my decision…touch up looks pretty good.
Thanks for the feedback and glad to hear! Yup not installing PPF first thing is honestly one of the big regrets I have with getting my C8. 😅👍
Great video!
Lesson learned on the PPF. I got mine on before I even drove anywhere other than home from dealer. The self healing of XPEL is amazing. I even scratched the film with a rock stuck in my microfiber towel. In about 5 minutes the deep scratch on the film healed and disappeared.
Thanks Brett! Yeah not having PPF is one of my biggest regrets of not getting when I first got my C8. Spending the money back then could have saved me thousands to get it done now which would need a full repaint then PPF applied.
I wish that I would have added ppf to the hood as well. I only put it on the front bumper, a pillars and rocker panels. The hood is starting to pick up chips.
@@mocheen4837 yeah the hood area will get some especially for how low the car sits. You may want to check out the Dr Colorchip for yours. It may help fill some of those kind of chips pretty well in the meantime. 👍
It really surprises me of the differences over the years. My ‘94 didn’t have that many problems over 168k. My ‘15 after 500 miles was driving me crazy so I had the chips touched up and the PPF applied. I plan on picking up my ‘23 and driving it directly to the PPF shop to have it done and ceramic coated.
It is interesting to see the difference in how paints endure depending on the manufacturer and year of a car. In hindsight, I definitely wished i had gotten PPF for the C8 when I first took delivery. Glad I could help others avoid my mistakes! 😅
I have a C8 on order and reached a different conclusion from this video. If I can repair paint chips to 90-95% with Dr. Colorchip, why would I pay thousands to get PPF? It may protect the underlying paint, but chips will mar the film almost as badly and you can't fix the film without removing and redoing it.
nice run down and agree about he AC Delco. I used it for the wifes car and yeah the raised spots pissed me off. That other ones looks great. There is no way I would pay 7-10K for PPF but maybe for the bumper, hood, lights I would. I have been thinking about the self PPF install kits. xpel had one for the front for 400 bucks and I have seen others. You should try one and see how much of a pain it is. The cost many of these shops charge is crazy.
Hey Joe thanks for the comment. It has been something I have considered actually and may do in the near future. The cost to install them is definitely expensive but a good professional job takes a while and a particularly OCD person to do it right. Have a good one!
nice comparison video. the touch up paint for dealerships aren't the greatest. if you have a local paint store, they could possibily make you a small bottle of touch up. the drcolorchip solution is great all in one package though. now time to put some STEK PPF on it!
Thanks for the feedback! Its interesting I had never considered a dealership for touch up paint jobs actually unless their go to is something like AC Delco which i wouldnt go for that case. The Dr Colorchip really did a phenomenal job for what it was. That being said yup PPF is on the list to get done for sure. 🙏👍
I had a 2020 stingray for three years with no PPF and I had zero paint chips on the front. Why? Because I’m very disciplined about not getting too close to cars in front of me, and stay off the highway with it. But it, like my new Z06, was meant for a weekender, not a daily driver. So in certain circumstances, doing a PPF on the front end still could be beneficial, although it does show scars from stone impacts so it is not panacea.
Expel paint protection film I got it done on the Ferrari before we even drove iy
Hey there - I also tried using ACDelco paint but it doesn't look so good, it has already hardened. How were you able to remove it? I had PPF on my front fascia but it became damaged in a minor bump while parking on the nose tip, so I'll need to get it redone.
Hey thanks for the comment. So the quick answer is that it involved light sanding to then redo. Once it cures that essentially the only way you can go
Stop following so close to other vehicles on the highway you will reduce the risk of so many rock chips.
Hey top appreciate the suggestion. I do generally keep a wide reach from other vehicles specifically because of that but sometimes its unavoidable especially when others merge right in front and dont give you a choice 🤷♂️. It doesnt help either that texas roads tend to have quite a bit of junk on the roads in general. Just in this last week ive had to avoid broken peices of wood, spilled paint cans, random car pieces, and even a mattress 😅. Its a jungle out there sometimes.
I keep a large distance from other cars and I still pick up rocks and bugs. I have paint protection on the front and it is amazing how many rocks hit the front bumper.
Spent lots of $$ on scissor doors but no $$ on PPF.
Yup. Didnt think it play as much of a factor as it did. Wasnt a smart decision on my end which is why I made this video in the first place to make sure other C8 owners dont make my mistake 😎. Have a good one! 👍
@@NuHorizonC8 I think it was a very smart decision to skip ppf. You fixed it with much cheaper touch up paint
Drive through a meteor shower?
Car Rallys is not a good Idea.
I did mine and it looked worse after, wish I never touched it! if you drive a car like that you can afford to have the nose painted!
Hey Byron thanks for the feedback. I'm curious which paint chip repair kit you went with. I did find the AC Delco made some of the chips worse on mine as well. Thankfully the DR. Color Chip worked wonders to help fix alot of my chips. I do plan on getting my C8 repainted regardless but thought this would be a good informative video for the community in the meantime. More options is better than only 1 or 2 expensive options.
@@NuHorizonC8 got my paint stick at Canadian Tire store, I did my home work first, I watched you tube videos, got the correct paint code and followed the instructions.I had a 2018 Ford raptor, blue in color. After I finished it looked like the truck with bad acne!
Unacceptable chevy needs to do better with paint🎨
If anything I think it would be a fantastic option for GM to include PPF as an option straight from the factory. I think a lot of new owners would jump at the idea of an OEM PPF.
Drinven mine thousands of miles no chips, ahhh stop tailgating
You follow people way too close…. When you have a low profile car you need to learn to keep a distance between you and the vehicles ahead. That many chips on a 28000 mile car is ridiculous
Thanks for the feedback plainview. I agree it does make a difference giving an extra bit of space, which I do tend to give where possible when driving. Bad Texas roads with alot of debris and such dont help thats for sure 😅. That being said, its surprising what kind of paint imperfections you will see when your looking at a 2ft distance away. Not all the paint chips were full on through the paint but were noticable imperfections that could be repaired via a paint chip repair kit or protected via PPF which is the point of the video. Thanks again for the feedback and support.