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Originally Posted by Desertnate
I've used this a couple times on other cars for both road trips and autocross events and it's worked out pretty well.
My one tip for a long road trip is to make sure to take your time and ensure the ends of each strip of material is smooth and is firmly adhered to the painted surface.
Anything that comes loose will start to flap in the wind and will actually cause marring on the paint from the impact. Nothing you can't polish out easily, but not great nonetheless.
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This is 100% correct. I had to rush to put it on the car and this is exactly what happened. I ran out of time so I couldn't put a final "sealing" layer on some of the edges so there weren't any wind facing edges. Even though I had that problem, it still protected my car way better than nothing. I was caught in a sand storm in southern California on the trip back. I thought about putting more on after driving 7 hours but I didn't want to stick sand into the paint. I will post some pictures later when I have a chance to take some after pictures. This was the best $50 I have spent to temporarily protect a car. I have a whole new level of respect for people that know how to wrap cars. Granted I was working with 6" strips, but man it took me 2 hours to cover the front end and it looked terrible!