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well you said it yourself. You have ceramic and ppf protection and that's what they are supposed to do, to protect the paint.
So the condition of your paintwork is attributed to the ceramic and ppf protection that you have on your car, and not due to automatic carwash not damaging the paintwork.
the escalade didn't have ceramic, just the ppf upfront. the defender has the ceramic and ppf.
So after getting my winter wheel and tire combo installed. Went to the auto car wash. I have been using it since my defender was new. After unloading the old wheel/tire, I noticed the passenger rear view mirror was missing the cover. It’s a good thing it wasn’t a busy night. The cover was unscathed. It had ppf film too.
That’s a lot of force. I pulled the mirror bezels off to install the Dynamic directional indicators from PowerfulUK and it took quite a bit of wrenching to remove the cover you are showing in the pics. Can’t imagine how the car wash could accomplish that. Mine will never see an automatic car wash. Or be parked by a valet while we’re on the subject. Anywhere that posts a sign saying: ‘NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE OR LOST ITEMS’ is enough for me.
That’s a lot of force. I pulled the mirror bezels off to install the Dynamic directional indicators from PowerfulUK and it took quite a bit of wrenching to remove the cover you are showing in the pics. Can’t imagine how the car wash could accomplish that. Mine will never see an automatic car wash. Or be parked by a valet while we’re on the subject. Anywhere that posts a sign saying: ‘NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE OR LOST ITEMS’ is enough for me.
I think it is probably because I folded the mirrors in? maybe I shouldn't be folding the mirrors?
Wow these a lot of hardware inside that mirror casing.
The mirrors for my old Defender cost £15 complete (around $18)
l imagine it would cost a bit more to replace one of these.
Back in the 90's I was living in Kenya. My company decided to buy a house in Sandwich England. Why, well we had to go to Brussels all the time for meetings, since many of our contracts where EU based. Now really, there is no good reason to spend any time in Brussels, ergo the selection for England as a base, hop the ferry over do the meeting come back and escape the Belgics. My partner figured he wanted to have his own car there and bought a new Rover sedan. He really had not had any experience with automatic car washes, living in Kenya. There, an automatic car wash is your driver as soon as you got home. He decides to try it out. Little did he realize he had pulled the boot release handle somehow. So it just popped up an inch. The car wash proceeded to completely rip off the boot lid of his new car.
His other comic back in UK experience was. Since he was a British Citizen, we put the house in his name. He promptly gets a tax bill from the council. Living overseas for nearly forever, he had never paid English taxes in a coon's age. He rushes down to the council office in a huff. He proceeds to explain he lives in Kenya and does not have to pay UK taxes. The very patient clerk asks, very nicely, "Does your house live in Kenya?" This all happened in a week, so his return to UK was not a great memory for him.
BTW, the comment about how cheap the mirror were on old Series and Defenders is so true. While I lived in Catania, there was this terrible tunnel under a railway that was really one car at a time in one direction only. Sicilians, the perhaps most patient people in the world, always decided they could squeeze past my Series III. I replaced over a dozen mirrors from them slapping the other car, almost monthly.
I hope you have a low deductible on your insurance. That beast cannot be cheap.
