And keeps it looking that way for ten years. Then you can unwrap. Rewrap. And have a new car again 👍 Nearly priceless on a car that will appreciate over time.

how do u figure that when the car is brand new and clean from factory?..no detail job is worth 18k

@@suprarune apparently this one was. And basically every other job I do lol

@@suprarune Factory defects. Did you watch the video?

​@suprarune a fool and his money shall be parted everyday

Thanks for watching and commenting! 458 speciale edit should be next. Might be one of the best videos yet!!!

Thank you! I definitely love what I do 👍🙂

Thank you! Love comments like this! The upcoming Ferrari video should be even better than this one!!

Thank you for watching and being respectful in the comments unlike many silly people commenting nonsense lol 🙂🤝

Thanks Obsessed Garage. Love seeing you around the channel 🙂🤝

Thank you for watching and commenting! The gtr is a awesome platform. Very reliable. Very fast. Very tuneable. Very affordable!

Thank you for watching and interacting! Viewers like yourself help the channel grow 🙂👍

Thank you! I think the issue is me haha. I need to post more!!!!

Thank you! I'm going to try and get the Ferrari 458 speciale video out in a timely fashion lol

OMG! That is one of my favs. Can’t wait to see that one now. You shouldn’t have told me that. ;)

@@Anienee after that should be 992 GT3 RS. A sport classic. And bunch of other cool ones 🙂

@@STATUSDETAIL Now your'e really testing my patience ;)

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Their companies that charge more than this and don't actually figure the shipping cost into the price. This is not the most expensive detail you can find if you know where to look.

8K for detailing and wrap and transportation and 10k as gtr nismo tax

@@star32godzilla not even close lol

Topaz is the best detailers in the world. no clue their prices. but i bet they are 10000x times better than this guy will ever dream to be and are a fraction the costs

@@SourBogBubblewhat are you basing that on? Have you compared their work? Topaz are a completely different type of business model and service than Status Detail.

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Agreed. Vinyl is very difficult as is PPF. The stress and frustration to learn and get to this level literally gave me gray hair and invented new swear words along the way lol.

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Agreed! I talk about this in a few videos especially on nasty defects requiring sanding. We aim to remove all the defects and jewel the paint into a ridiculously glossy state and then lock that in. But managing clear coat depth is a serious thing! If your thinking about that your already leagues ahead of most PPF installers 👍

They started out watching ammo too! So it's pretty awesome to see people mention his name and then my name or that they view my channel too! Very cool. Thanks for watching

Thanks for the continued support and watching the videos! Unlimited trailers are very impressive that's for sure!

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Yes! Two Ferraris coming soon!

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I would think they do great work but I've never seen it up close. I'm not sure how that business is structured currently either. I'm sure they have multiple employees. So that introduces questions like how many of them do PPF. Do the ones with most experience only do the really expensive cars or do you have a vetaren doing a car with a guy who has 6 months experience? At what point do you trust the new guy to work on a car by himself? I'm my opinion that's over a year because PPF is complex. Most companies can't afford to train a guy that long then risk he just leaves to make all the money himself. Tricky business. I've seen many of the videos on there channel. I think overall they must be doing a great job and are a good source of detailing information. Todd appears to be a top notch detailer. The tricky part is who else is doing all the work. That's why this business currently is essentially completely me. So you know my last car will look like my next car. No inconsistency from employee to employee. Safe to say esoteric does high end work. As does Larry at ammo and the other big names

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Not sure on the music. It's a remix from sick ick and then I usually change things slightly again. This detail was pretty extreme You can definitely get the price down a little bit but overall still get an amazing detail. If you're interested in shipping just head over to my website and either give me a call or email me. I'm definitely happy to help!

@@STATUSDETAIL thanks! Clearly amazing work and you clearly have passion.

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Thanks! So glad you found status! PPF is super hard. It will make you go crazy learning and if you get good enough and dint give up you can be proficient. Then you go down the advanced hole and lose your mind again lol. I use CSL and v5. Both are incredibly good especially exo v5.

@@STATUSDETAIL nice. Thank u for the feedback. I see you respond to just about everyone's comments which is Not easy to do...especially when There's Soo many of them. Thank u. 🙏🏽 Keep up the good work.

@@johnboy5632 my pleasure! I do my best to interact with you all that interact with me 🤝👍🙂

A catalytic converter is very different from a exhaust tip. You do need to be mindful of this too though! McLaren 720s OEM exhaust has like heat shield literally built into bumper due to heat and how the rear exit exhaust is designed. If you tune a 720 and do exhaust and or downpipes you start melting parts of that surrounding bumper and obviously PPF too. Anything shooting fire basically means your paint and PPF might not make it lol. A cat gets hotter than a exhaust tip though same thing with a downpipe. If the gtr dies open exhaust and any kind of flame tune that rear painted area is not lasting long.

@@STATUSDETAIL You responded! That’s awesome! My first thought was that gtr probably shoots some big fireballs! That is if it was actually driven. Great work!!!

STEK has 10 year warranty! Theoretically it should last much longer than that if your garage captain not driving it very much like I assume this car will be used. It is however a good idea to remove it around 8 9 10 years old is if you wait too long it can be difficult to remove. But that's more common when a car is like outside every day.

Sanding is th only fix. In some situations I feel like STEK PPF actually made the orange peel a little nicer looking and some 9/11s that I've done but it's pretty subtle. Unfortunately BMW Mercedes and Audi all have pretty aggressive orange peel. We just bought an X5M competition as a family car and that also has pretty gnarly orange peel for an over six figure car. I agree it's unfortunate but I'm used to it and was prepared for it so my expectations are low for paint on those cars lol.

@@STATUSDETAIL Thank you! Enjoy the X5M! Maybe a vid on that car? When you have time haha!!😅

@@MuffinMoney lol definitely planning a video! Ultimate Mom car detail or something like that

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Lots of great free content on UKposts can help you get a foundation!

I think having them work together is one of the best systems you can have

ken gets it !thanks for watching

it works basically like a sticker with really strong adhesive

Oh man I bet a red one would have looked very cool especially with the carbon parts!!!!

Topaz does great work. An honor to be mentioned along side them. Thank you for watching 🙂🙂

I've seen everything from around 20 to 50 miles. I would imagine some of the facilities the cars are at are pretty large so driving the car to and from different spots puts miles on? It's a great question maybe someone can give us some insight

The only way you remove orange peel is before PPF. You must sand the entire car. It's very tricky. Very time consuming. Extremely expensive

@@STATUSDETAIL Thanks for the response.

After the car is paint corrected I basically blow dry the car to 99% dry. Then I take a brand new clean microfiber towel with with gyeon prep. To do a very light wipe down of any residual water and then begin the PPF. When a car is fully finished and I'm washing it like for maintenance that process is similar I'm still going to blow dry it until it's basically completely dry but then I'll take something like gtechniq ceramic sealant "C2" spray that once or twice on the panel and then dry it with a drying towel and then go around the car that way adding protection and getting the 1% of water left over

Great question. So much is not shown. That fender area was cut out as it needs to be cut out to install. Each individual vent has PPF installed one by one after 👍 All painted or I should say clear coated surfaces on the exterior have PPF. Including rear diffuser and partial underside of rear.

Didn't measure. Only really important on heavy sanding work.

Its called PPF (Paint Protection Film) It doesn't come in different thickness however, you can select the finish.(Gloss or Matte)

STEK PPF is 8 mil and 10 mil. Most people don't use the 10 as it's harder to install and stretch often resulting in more relief cuts. It can definitely have its uses though! 7-8 mil is kind of like industry standard for PPF. We also have double layered 8 mil before in high impact spots like the 992 gt3rs fender areas

@@adnanabbas6900 it does come in different thickness. Some PPF brands sell a 8 mil and 10 mil.

@@STATUSDETAIL Thank you, Sir! My installer lied to me then lol

@@adnanabbas6900 I'm sorry that's the case! They might sell a PPF brand that doesn't offer the thicker version. Hopefully that's the case and they are honest people. Some people just don't like to talk about the thicker stuff cuz they don't want to inventory it. The reality in our situation is that if you want the film to be really invisible and look really good and have no stretch lines or adhesive lines then 9.5 times out of 10 you want the 8mil. Like I mentioned I think earlier in a comment if there were some really bad high impact areas for example on a GT3 RS or a 4 RS we might consider double layering film kind of like a tearaway on a race car helmet. So after about a year of driving you just pull off that second layer and then you still have the base. My honest opinion I find this more sensible than having a thick 10 well that still needs to be replaced after it gets beat up. At least when you have a double layer and really specific important spots you get to convenience of pulling it off and not needing to reinstall. A second double layer piece is usually a really precisely installed thing too so it's usually lower cost than you might expect.

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Most people hardly know what ceramic or paint correction is lol Thanks for watching 👍

Definitely something id love to have in my future collection

Lol. You think they look alike? Maybe a little?

@@STATUSDETAIL With the mustache, definitely lol

@@turb0gate lol!

Un necessary is the main reason. More importantly the owner didn't want anything removed on the car at all.

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Not sure what your seeing. Might be a weird light reflection. On our if state cars they often stay with me a few days after completion so I can check for this very issue! This was done a long time ago so I don't remember but it's safe to say I found things and re heated it trimmed any problem spots 👍

Will offer training one day. But not sure when

@@STATUSDETAIL that's sound great if you do then I will be there

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It definitely does. It weighs something. But it can't add that much. Good question 👍

Glad to hear you had a great experience and the car arrived in good condition! As I mentioned in my video lots of customers pull out all the lights and everything to look at it to find problems but often they don't do that at all Just take a walk around it and say this looks great. Until the car comes to me and I show them everything that was wrong. Unfortunately most shops don't do The steps we do before the film goes on which means if they didn't know this either then your car had all the same problems but no one brought them to your attention. This is very common unfortunately. Many PPF shops especially ones that only focus on PPF don't even paint correct cars they don't think it's necessary. This is more of a philosophy difference especially if a shop begins as a PPF shop first vs a detailing shop that adopts into PPF.

This guy gets it lol. Also their carbon ceramic brakes even if he drove a thousand miles there'd be like zero brake dust. Thank you for contributing the common sense that's missing from several of the other comments lol 🤝🤝🙂👍

Not on this car. Customer specifically requested that we not remove anything from the car

I did ceramic wheels. It helps in the sense that they stay cleaner longer and are easier to clean. Technically they are harder to scratch after ceramic but if you rub any grit into the wheel repeatedly it's going to swirl unfortunately. The carbon ceramic brakes don't make dust so that's a big help. If you have steel brakes it's virtually impossible to not swirl them out but a great process will make it happen slower. Auto car wash brushes will destroy it in like a month lol

@@STATUSDETAIL I know it cleans easier. So swirls are still unavoidable.

@@One21P yea id go matte black if black is your preference. Swirls on gloss black isn't end of world. Just have the right expectations going into it.

It's definitely possible to cut through the PPF and into the pain and accident. Good after you make so many cuts you begin to realize how much pressure to make and then you can be confident that every cut you make will only be scoring the film and not cutting the film. For an experience installer it's extremely safe for an inexperienced installer it's a bit risky

This was more than a couple hours lol. I have never done full body PPF and and ceramic correction on a mustang. It's only been on 6 fig cars

Thanks for the feedback. Larry makes great videos! Check out some of my other videos. Lots of information on this channel 👍

So true , i got the same opinion .. talks too much, overrated work.

@@cristiancarson6009 so no feedback to make it better. Got it.

I was literally searching the comments to make sure I wasn’t the only one thinking this. Dude doesn’t seem humble at all and the demeanor of his business is something I don’t get. I would recommend for him to be more educational, less “we do it best” and just a little less focused on how “perfect and better he is” his work looks nice. Not taking that away from him. However as a viewer, all I heard was “I’m the shit, everyone else is meh because they’re not blessed to have such cars”. I know so many installers that put out the same work and they all think they’re the best in the world. That 18k is wild tho good lord 😂 18k is money you pay for like actual unique custom art. Not a ppf job,

@@Joey_Maldo_15 check out my other videos. Lots of diy educational stuff. If you watched this video you know I said I'll be teaching many advanced PPF things in coming videos for free. Many people charge hundreds of dollars for online classes that will be nearly identical digital content. In previous videos I get comments saying I'm giving away all my secrets lol. Appreciate you watching 🙂

Not sure what this means?

It's completely normal unfortunately. You can see in my other videos we've had things even more extreme than this on cars equally as expensive. I have more videos coming soon of cars that have crazy issues and have 50 miles or less on them.

@@STATUSDETAIL You guys did a fantastic job. Absolutely beautiful.

@@benburton272 thanks!!

it is called paint protection film. the company we use is stek

It's completely normal unfortunately. Have worked on some of the rarest Porsches and they all have similar issues sometimes they've had issues even worse than this which will be shown in a video coming soon on a sport classic that had some of the worst paint I've ever seen on a car

Not sure I'm guessing in neutral it can like decouple the front and back. The trailer pushed it out. Then it drives out after

I think he's going to drive it to car shows. And I think he'll drive it around town now and then. But I would guess that it'll probably be in a garage decent amount and probably not get tracked if I remember correctly. This is a car that in 10 or 20 years could easily double in value. So you got to try and take care of it in my opinion just because it's so special and it has so much upside and value long-term.

@@STATUSDETAIL I’d never drive it personally. It’s worth too much in the future. Plus it’s a historic car in the future. I’d be a nervous wreck.

It's always interesting seeing different brands when new. Seeing the inside look at how they stack up. I would say overall from what I'm used to seeing this car stacked up pretty well. I do feel like the OEM orange peel was rather aggressive. Beyond at the most of the things we saw I've seen on Porsches and Ferrari and other exotic cars. So ultimately it's in spec for the auto industry. Just above average orange peel on some panels.

I could buy a plotter. I could buy multiple plotters and have multiple employees and up my volume of work. But I aim to do things perfectly. Plotting won't be perfect it's just faster but with a cost on the aesthetic side. Bulking is a fully customized install and will maximize the installers ability to make the PPF invisible and reduces many potential defects. A plotter will cost anywhere from 3500 to 9000 plus monthly software. Many shops can't afford that. But many shops can and prefer to bulk. We are one of those shops. Hand cutting is a art forum and it's important to remember plotter installed film won't go on perfectly. So it will require you to trim at times. So you cut on car no matter what. Especially on things like mirrors or any panel requiring huge stretch or any really exotic cars or brand new models. As there will be no software to cut those cars. How I install is very slow and methodical. The average business would struggle installing like us. Plotting is fast and gets cars in and out

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@@danielbrown4579 your welcome

lol whatever makes you happy

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Worth it. And the job was primo

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Never had an issue with beard hurs getting in anything lol. But good observation. We did this car when it was pretty cold out. I actually wear basketball style shirts often so I avoid belts but if it's really cold out I don't. The space is heated but winter is still winter. Never had a issue with. My wedding ring. I've actually never worn a watch until recently getting a smart watch. And now I can't not use it because I'm so busy all the time especially working on cars that it's the only easy way for me to answer a phone call or see if it's spam and keep working especially when doing PPF. So I'm just very careful about how I'm moving around cars. Put that watch saves me so much time and being able to screen calls and answer on the fly while still working hands-free. I suppose earpods would do the same thing but I don't really like having something in my ears for the entire day which would be like for the minute I wake up to the minute I go to sleep.

It's a major pain to remove actually lol. It's not coming off unless someone rips it off plus uses heat or a steamer. It's pretty permanent until removal is needed and forced lol

Gets the job done. I've had scram grips before. I'll buy another. But this works too. Lots of ways to do things 👍