VPS done to my e70

[leonz]

Somebody once told me that good fathers make good sons. Well I’ve made the best. Leonard took my e70 and not only re-sprayed the whole front end; he covered the whole front end with a VPS paint protection film. No more stone chips for me. Must say I was shocked when I walked through his shop the other day and saw my car stripped. Bonnet, fenders, grill, wheels, bumper, side mirrors I mean everything that could be stone chipped was removed and re-sprayed.
Need now to take the X5 to the bush to test the film against surface scratches. I must agree with Confucius.
He said – Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
Thank you my son.
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[beezo003]

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[zaleonardz]

My dads X5 was in very good condition, except for the fact that it got blasted at some point with really tiny stone chips.

We originally tried the repair while painting on the car, in other words, not stripping anything, and just "masking"

This was a total disaster, the shape of the X5 nose is so complex, that you cannot mask it properly.

Either you have primer collecting at the edge of the spotlights, or around the headlights, or around the gazzilion pieces of plastic that makes up the front bumper...

The only answer, and we really did not want to do this, but did eventually, was strip off the entire nose of the car in order to paint it properly.

This involved about 9 hours of dissasembly, and about 13 hours to refit, just in terms of strip and assemble, oh and about R800 worth of clips which are not reusable, it was a frikken joke.

Here is what you have to do to fix stone chips on an X5















For you folks with new or newish X5/X6's please consider doing some VPS to it up front before the damage occurs.

This entire process took us about 3 weeks to do... versus 1 day to do VPS.

 

[sash]

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[SP33DYV]

raise:raise:raise:
Excellent job LZ