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I agree- but I was already in for a fully custom 1 of 1 build with new paint, bodywork etc...
in your case it makes complete sense. I’m wavering due to questions about reliability and if I’ll keep the truck. Would never get the expense back if I let it go.
Thanks for the info - just put in a build for carpathian and was considering the satin wrap but passed. Looked at one in the dealership and wasnt impressed for $4500 that they quoted me. It looked sloppy and I don't even have a keen eye for this stuff!!
One of the easiest ways to keep wrap prices down is to have a black vehicle. For any other color, the wrap team has to be extra hyper-focused to keep the color from showing on the wrapped edges. For example, wrap the door around to the inside and molding. Precision cutting is needed for a great job. When you have a black vehicle you get more freedom as ppl assume it's molding or part of the seal.
Due to a lack of information from Land Rover and the dealer at time of ordering, the decision to order the satin ppf over Eiger Gray was a crap shoot.
the pricing of $4900 for a “full’ body wrap seemed reasonable here in California. My preferred wrap guy, after looking at it said pricing wasn’t bad for the coverage but quality of wrap was poor. I agree. Here are my observations.
The look is great. Satin over dark gray has a nice ominous look to it. At first glance the quality looks fine.
But, the factory does a very labor friendly wrap after the build is complete. Obviously using pattern cut pieces and not removing any parts like door handles, etc.
Since they didn’t remove handles, their pattern leaves the door handle cups uncovered. Serious deficiency as this is one of the most likely areas to get scratched by finger nails, keys, etc. They also did not wrap the handles themselves. This results in some visible glossy gray and some satin.
I didn’t order the color matched spare tire cover, but be forewarned they won’t wrap that at factory if you do order it.
The used two pieces of ppf to wrap the rear quarters with a poorly butted seam on the corner edge. A quality installer would never do that. They didn’t remove any trim to wrap underneath, just butted up near those parts
Overall quality in other areas is okay.
As it’s a satin wrap I never expected LR to wrap the gloss black bumpers, rocker covers, mirrors, roof and grill trim pieces. Many of which have exposure to scratches, rock chips and cargo loading in rear. No complaint on LR here, but a heads up that if you want paint protection on gloss black, you’ll be spending some money.
My Defender is sitting in the shop today getting handle cups wrapped in stealth ppf, door handles in black vinyl and front bumper (ex-panel with a zillion holes on it), rear bumper, rockers, grill trim pieces and mirrors wrapped in clear ppf. $1700 to complete the job. I didn’t do the roof due to additional time (with expedition rack removal), money and the fact that no one will ever see up there under the rack.
in summary, if I had it to do over I would not have ordered the satin wrap, opting instead to have the satin wrap done by aftermarket installer along with the clear on gloss black. Would have cost about the same with a much cleaner and higher quality install.
Thanks for the writeup and pics. When they did the front bumper, with all the holes, does the computer program the cutting machine to cut out all the holes, or do they do that manually?
