Anyone put PPF on their car and end up regretting it?

I’m going to be retroactively putting it on the front after a year, getting some rock chips fixed and putting on PPF from a reputable shop. Just wondering if I will, for some unforeseen reason, end up regretting putting PPF on, like it ruining the paint when eventually replacing. The PPF has a 12 year warranty for stuff like yellowing. But not sure if it’s common to remove/change it sooner than that? Any things to look out for?

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My only regret is doing the front clip rather than the whole car.

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Yeah instead of my car depreciating 50k it depreciated 57.5k and I had to get the front one replaced cause a minor scratch ruined it

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It’s a waste on normal cars. $100k+ it might be worth it if you have model with really particular buyers, ex 911

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Put it on a car that I street parked in Boston (people use their bumpers). It looked like trash in a couple years and I removed. Ending up moving to the burbs shortly after and selling the car. Not sure it did that much to prevent nicks to the paint, wouldn’t do it again

I have put front clip PPF on my family haulers and full PPF on my fun cars. I used to get so many rock chips on my cars and the PPF definitely helped mitigate a lot of that. Did I get my money out of it when I sold the car? Maybe some of it, because my cars looked pristine, but maybe not the full amount. Would I do it again? Absolutely, because I hate rock chips lol.

One thing to consider — are you planning to keep the car long term? PPF usually makes more sense if you’re holding onto it for a few years.

I did it on my higher end F150 just the lower front bc it’s painted not steel bumper. It was $700 and I will never get that money back, but the front on a previous truck got eaten up by highway rock chips so I don’t regret it, but I don’t think I’ll ever get much value back out of it.

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