Protection
Paint protection film
Bespoke paint protection film, either full body or a front end package covering the bumper, hood and fenders. Fitted panel by panel, including headlight and grill coverage.
Chapter 01
What Texas highways do to a front bumper
Rock chips and road debris on the drive between San Antonio, Boerne and New Braunfels do their damage in the same spots every time: the leading edge of the hood, the front bumper, the fenders and the edge of the mirrors. Left alone long enough, small chips turn into rust starting points, and a factory paint job that was flawless off the lot ends up pitted before the car is five years old.
It's not always obvious until it's parked next to an unchipped car in the same colour. A front end that's taken a season of highway miles without film usually shows a scatter of tiny nicks across the hood and bumper that no touch up pen fixes cleanly.
Paint protection film being applied to the front end of a G Wagon at Texas Custom Wraps in Boerne
Panel by panel, not a stretch and hope job
Film goes on one panel at a time, cut and fitted to the bumper, hood, fenders, headlights and the grill area rather than stretched across the whole front end as one sheet. That's what keeps the edges from lifting later, and it's what let two G Wagons headed to Mercedes San Antonio get full frontal coverage that reads as invisible from three feet away.
Coverage runs from a full body wrap of film, like the G63 that came through the shop, down to a front end package for owners who mainly want the bumper, hood and fenders covered. Finish is a choice too: gloss to disappear into the factory paint, or matte on a car that's already running a matte colour change, the way one build left the shop with matte PPF and a ceramic tint together.
A Porsche went out with gloss full frontal film, a Range Rover the same, both fitted the same panel by panel way regardless of what's underneath.
Chapter 03
Telling PPF apart from a wrap, and knowing when it needs a look
PPF and a colour change wrap solve two different problems. A wrap changes what colour the car is. Film is clear, and its whole job is standing between the paint and the road, which is why a car can run both at once, like the build that combined matte PPF with a ceramic tint and painted calipers.
The film itself will start to yellow, or the edges will lift slightly, after years of sun and highway miles, and that's the point to bring it back in rather than wait for it to peel on its own. Call (210) 999-9727 or stop by the shop on Highway 46 in Boerne, Monday through Friday from 10 to 6, and Armin will take a look at it in person.
Texas Custom Wraps — Five year warranty against peeling on wrap work. Call (210) 999-9727.