The shiny black pastric trim on the top half of the car was PPF'd. It will stick, so what you were told isn't true. The rough finished lower plastic trim and the front and rear bumpers were not PPF'd.
If you don’t keep your car at least 5 years then PPF is a waste of money. In California, we get no sales tax credit on trade-ins against new purchases (like I did In NY). This encourages leasing or keeping cars longer. I plan on keeping the Model Y until the wheels fall off and the Rivian at...
I still own the Tesla Model Y. The Tesla was wrapped free hand just like the Rivian but there was no paint correction done, nor ceramic coating afterwards. The PPF has protected the paint from the door dings we have had on the car so it has done its job. I would say that the PPF is not as shiny...
Too early to tell about Kavaca as I just got the R1S back yesterday.
My previous experience is with Suntek which was used to wrap my Model Y. It's held up pretty well over 3 years and did it's job protecting the paint during door dings. I didn't use ceramic coat at the time.
I just got my SUV back from Califoria Detailing in San Francisco who did a complete PPF wrap with Kavaca for my R1S followed by Ceramic Coating (they not only wrapped the body panels but the black plastic trim, headlights, etc). The ceramic coating is apparrently applied not only the body panels...