PPF on lower rear arches???

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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; : rgb241, 241, 241;">do your F-TYPE's have factory installed PPF patches on the lower rear arches where they meet the sills ?</span><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; : rgb241, 241, 241;">Mine doesn't and noticed I am picking up stone chips there</span>
 
Mine did (very small patch), although it was removed in lieu of a full PPF wrap soon after I picked the car up.<div><br></div><div>When cleaning it today, I did notice a nasty mark in that exact area, though; looks like a stone had perforated the PPF, can't tell if it got all the way through, but it's clear the PPF did it's job anyway as any damage to the paintwork would surely have been worse without it.</div>
 
Mine has, and so have everyone else I have seen at the dealer also.<br /><br />Not many of them "in the wild" in Norway yet, so I have only seen one on the road.
 
Yes. Mine has them, however I think they are too small to be all that effective.<br>I'm planning to buy some material and make a larger patch.<br>I also think it would be good to use a strip of it to run around the wheel arch...The underside lip. It will be out of sight, but if that area gets chipped the aluminium will start to blister the paint in time. I'd like to avoid that if I can.<br>
 
thanks guys<div><br></div><div>yes I am taking up with JLR and the dealer to sort</div><div><br></div><div>going to request the rocker panels are repainted and then the patch applied</div><div><br></div><div>my car was a JLR car before I bought it from the dealer last month, so sure as heck someone will be paying, but not me</div>
 
Yep you should do exactly that, but assuming they agree (and I don't see how they can argue), bear in mind you'll need to wait between repainting and applying the "helicopter tape"... length of time is variable depending on who you ask for the paint to cure.<br /><br />Some might say 7 days, others might say 7 weeks...no clue myself but hopefully the dealer won't be so clueless..
 
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