armourfend or paintshield

Prior to taking delivery of my Exige in March, I want to get the stonechip prone areas protected - my VXT I had armourfended and then following an accident where the front had to be resprayed, Specialised Paintwork in Reading recommended Paintshield.

I understand Armourfend are back on the scene and that also from doing a search there is a Lotus solution as well.

So, as a bewildered buyer, does anyone have any view on what is best/best value. What have people paid and for what i.e. just front, side sills etc?

Cheers

Fish

It all looks bad after a period of time, so unless you are the type of person that has plastic roll on your carpet and plastic covers on your sofa, I wouldn’t bother.

Why pay so much for distressed jeans and then worry about a few stonechips?

Mine is quite heavily stonechipped in certainareas but i see it that the paint is a consumable part on the car - nothing that a respray won’t fix and in the meantime i treat thenm as badges of honour.

I am going for http://www.ventureshield.com/

tbh, I was really impressed with the plastic on my silver vxt. You couldn’t tell it was there from any distance and didn’t discolour. Also, I reckon it saved some damage when a car in front’s numberplate fell off and whacked the clam - nothing other than some small scratches.

I’m not overly precious with my cars but I know i’d soon get hacked off with a pock marked front, no matter how much of a badge of honour

cheers

fish

i had armourfend on my old exige, very good it was too. Could hardly tell it was there, didnt deteriorate over the 18 months i had it, and did a good job of protecting the paintwork

however, it came with the car, and i will not be paying for it to be added to the new one - make of that what you will!!

i had armourfend on my old exige, very good it was too. Could hardly tell it was there, didnt deteriorate over the > [color:“red”] 18 months [/color] > i had it, and did a good job of protecting the paintwork

look at the same product that’s been on a car a bit longer

Lotus do their own which I have on mine and it is only about �120ish fitted. The others are about �400plus and do the same job…

Fish,

I had Sinclairs put ventureshield on mine, your welcome to have a look at mine next time your over Bro’s.

Cheers
Mark