This is why we do PPF

[SurlyBurris]

The wife, pup and I went out camping this last weekend. After the first night we decided to head out for another location. While driving the forest road towards the highway, my pup was hanging out the window and my wife yelled and grabbed her. I young German Sheppard was running straight for us from one of the other camp sites. My choices were to to speed up and take the chance of hurting the dog or just stop and let it happen....so I stopped.

Pic from the day of

Pic of damage after I washed her

The dog owner was nice and said she'd take care of the damages. The estimate for replacement of film + ceramic on both doors is $750, I'm sure the damage would have been worse without PPF and more expensive to repaint the doors.

If you are on the fence....I hope this helps.

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[Prime]

I understand the appeal. But $10k for full body ppf and ceramic which is just about the average quote in socal is so much money to spend on an already very expensive car. I think it’s going to be impossible to keep a “adventure vehicle” completely free of wear and battle scars. When I see jeeps with some scratches I don’t cringe I just figure, oh they must off road.

That said, I do plan to do a full font ppf because my previous cars have been completely torn up by rock chips and with the quite flat design of the R1 I can see that looking quite bad over time. Full body for me just doesn’t make sense since it’s a at least $6k up charge vs front ppf and ceramic. If you have the $ to burn though that’s great. I’d just say if you believe in Rivian as a company, investing $6k in the stock might yield you many multiples $, which that ppf around the car won’t do.

Sorry that happened though! Glad the pup owner was willing to cover the cost for repair.

 

[golden_frog]

Never have had the need to wrap my cars in plastic, but to each their own.

 

[sacramentoelectric]

Never have had the need to wrap my cars in plastic, but to each their own.

It just doesn't feel the same.

 

[miasm]

I had a dog similarly scratch my door without PPF. A simple wet sand so that it looks like new was a couple hundred bucks....

 

[E Parx]

I had a dog similarly scratch my door without PPF. A simple wet sand so that it looks like new was a couple hundred bucks....

I've been doing this myself for my last 3 vehicles. Works great and I've spent maybe $20 the entire time on supplies. Small areas take about 15 min for 2 different grain wet sands then appling finishing polish. I've done an entire vehicle in 2-3 hours. So worth it.

 

[VHRivian]

I understand the appeal. But $10k for full body ppf and ceramic which is just about the average quote in socal is so much money to spend on an already very expensive car. I think it’s going to be impossible to keep a “adventure vehicle” completely free of wear and battle scars. When I see jeeps with some scratches I don’t cringe I just figure, oh they must off road.

That said, I do plan to do a full font ppf because my previous cars have been completely torn up by rock chips and with the quite flat design of the R1 I can see that looking quite bad over time. Full body for me just doesn’t make sense since it’s a at least $6k up charge vs front ppf and ceramic. If you have the $ to burn though that’s great. I’d just say if you believe in Rivian as a company, investing $6k in the stock might yield you many multiples $, which that ppf around the car won’t do.

Sorry that happened though! Glad the pup owner was willing to cover the cost for repair.

I am doing the front at least as well. The XPEL program brings down the cost quite a bit. They haven't released info for the R1S yet but according to Tim at XPEL they are setting up to start wrapping trucks at the factory in October. If you already have your truck you can signup here:

https://www.xpel.com/pmp/rivian

 

[kizamybute']

If you're going to do the whole vehicle, better off just doing a colored vinyl for around $5,000 or $6,000 and do the whole truck. Then you can change the color of your truck as you see fit.

$10,000 is pretty expensive. Probably could shop around and find a better price. I've been quoted $5,000 to $6,000 for a complete vinyl job. PPF should be roughly the same. Same basic process. Just, either with clear film or colored vinyl. Definitely would shop around.

 

[Gsxr150]

If no people were in the vicinity, then there's zero doubt I would have hit the gas to escape. Sorry, but control your dog.

 

[opnwide]

OP, I can't tell, but did the scratches penetrate the PPF and actually scratch the paint itself or is that just torn PPF? Beauty of scratched PPF is that you can do a hot air gun slowly and self-heal some of that.

 

[SurlyBurris]

OP, I can't tell, but did the scratches penetrate the PPF and actually scratch the paint itself or is that just torn PPF? Beauty of scratched PPF is that you can do a hot air gun slowly and self-heal some of that.

It did not reach the paint. I had the PPF shop look at it yesterday to see if they could fix without replacing, but the PPF is too damaged to just heat it up.

 

[frostbit3]

If no people were in the vicinity, then there's zero doubt I would have hit the gas to escape. Sorry, but control your dog.

Not the dog's fault the owner is an idiot

 

[tobyringle]

Now you need a Film Protection Film to protect your PPF.

 

[Siva]

I wonder if we spend too much money on cosmetics (I am not talking about beauty products). Couldn't we accept the normal wear and tear and love the vehicles for their function? This comment is not related to specific incident started this thread, but a general thought

 

[VHRivian]

I wonder if we spend too much money on cosmetics (I am not talking about beauty products). Couldn't we accept the normal wear and tear and love the vehicles for their function? This comment is not related to specific incident started this thread, but a general thought

Hard no on that...

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