How close do you
dare sit?
Every stone chip on your bonnet arrived while you were following someone. Here is that bet as a game — hold to close the gap, and find out what the paintwork costs at the end of it.
Hold anywhere on the road — or the space bar — to close the gap. You cover ground faster up close and collect a great deal more damage. Grit chips and scratches paint; a rock dents the panel underneath. Film stops the first two outright and heals its own scuffs — it does not stop a rock moving metal, and the bill will say so.
Stones do not land evenly.
Almost everything the road throws at you arrives at the front of the car: the bumper, the leading edge of the bonnet, the guards, the headlights and the mirrors. That is why the packages are built the way they are — full front covers the panels that actually collect chips, and full body exists for people who spend their lives on gravel.
TRACKDAY film is roughly 8 mil of urethane with a self-healing top coat: light scuffing lifts out with heat, and the film takes the hit the paint would have. It carries a ten-year warranty and comes off without touching the factory finish. The other half of the job is the glass.