minty

Now there we are in agreement...
 
Steve

As long as my bank account is not behind the curve.  

The same could be said for any new film, Suntek have a new film out, how do we know that that will perform as you say in years to come (I am not bashing Suntek here as I love their film and to my mind at the moment is the best on the market). I have STEK on my car and it's doing a fine job. If you are not prepared to put film on you own cars whose cars do you test on? I use my car because it is used and abused on a daily basis, when it is washed it's taken through the local 'hand car wash' with all the associated chemicals and old wash mits and if the film stands up to this I am pretty confident to offer it to my customers. If you are not even willing to try these things we would still be putting helicopter tape on our cars.
 
Steve

Installs very similar to Suntek, maybe a bit more bite to the adhesive. You can certainly feel the hydrophobic qualities, stretches as well as Suntek, maybe a bit more tear resistance than Suntek. I have dropped neat alcohol, meths, brake cleaner, brake fluid and paint thinners on the film and the thinners was the only thing to mark it where as the Suntek held up against everything with a slight outline where the thinners was allowed to sit. I have had it on my car for a few months now and when I applied it I polished the surrounding panels at the same time, since then mother nature has provided the only wash and the film definitely feels a lot slicker.
The backing sheet could be a bit stiffer for a bit more piece of mind when plotting 60" rolls, but that's just a personal observation. 
 
Steve

Nope, I am also in the UK and was paying Xpel a monthly access fee plus meterage, the first I knew about it was when I went to access DAP and found I could no longer get in, no phone call, letter or email explaining the situation just pulled the plug on me. I can see why, they are haemorrhaging dealers to other films and want to tie them in to their film by the software. This is why I learnt to design my own patterns, I can pick and choose what film I want to use and the company with the best customer service and although Xpel film is good I believe Suntek is just as good if not better with less orange peel but easier to install, Premiumshield is as good but with far superior customer service with them bending over backwards to help the dealer rather than expect the dealer to come to them cap in hand and beg to use their product. I would rather work with a supplier than for one. I hasten to add these are my experiences of the UK PPF scene.
 
Where are you in the UK AWS50M?
 
Steve

Installs very similar to Suntek, maybe a bit more bite to the adhesive. You can certainly feel the hydrophobic qualities, stretches as well as Suntek, maybe a bit more tear resistance than Suntek. I have dropped neat alcohol, meths, brake cleaner, brake fluid and paint thinners on the film and the thinners was the only thing to mark it where as the Suntek held up against everything with a slight outline where the thinners was allowed to sit. I have had it on my car for a few months now and when I applied it I polished the surrounding panels at the same time, since then mother nature has provided the only wash and the film definitely feels a lot slicker.
The backing sheet could be a bit stiffer for a bit more piece of mind when plotting 60" rolls, but that's just a personal observation. 
 
Steve

Well I didn't mean anything bad by my question, nor my response. I was just curious. Maybe my phone did glitch.
To respond to he quote, you won't get much help calling us "dopes" and thinking we know less than you do. Maybe you know more than some, maybe not. But making derogatory comments won't get you any help

I'm getting better...Told the customer it needs to settle   they seemed ok with that...
 
 
Steve

I'm getting better...Told the customer it needs to settle   they seemed ok with that...
 
 
Steve