I pick up the Z Thursday. To avoid rock chips to the front end, I asked a well respected body shop in Billings to apply the usual 3M clear material. The owner recommends a product that has been out for roughly one year: a spray-on application that has the same effect, with no concern for bubbles.

The front bumper assembly is removed and the clear finish slighly roughened. A primer is applied, followed by the plastic material. The finshed piece cures for 48 hours before re-installing the front.

Is anyone familiar with this new apporach to a 'clear bra'? I haven't found any mention of it on the Internet and the threads that turned up on a search for 'clear bra' and similar terms deal with the familiar film that is applied in pieces, usually from a pre-cut kit.

Thanks!

 

my clear bra has no bubbles.
don't know about that product

 

I would stick with the normal clear bra. Either that or look into that new method really deep, wouldnt want to do something you might regret later.

 

a company i get race car parts from called BSR products makes a spray on product made to keep decals and paint from damage on race cars... its suppozed to be simple application using a regular air compressed paint gun... just as if being painted...this is the link...

http://www.bsrproducts.com/product_i...oducts_id=2522
http://www.bsrproducts.com/product_i...oducts_id=2523

i have seen samples of this stuff at the BSR locations and its pretty cool... it doesnt seem to change the look of the color and it peels off in one piece...i know the owner of the company and if enough of you are intrested ill call them up and find out more about it....

 

Go with traditional clear bra. This was discussed a while back. I read a blurb in C&D about this stuff and it's basically crap. It's a pain to mask off areas and apply, it's meant as a temporary thing only, rain destroys it and makes a big mess and as far as they could tell, it didn't protect the paint worth a damn.

 

I've had a clear bra on my 04 Touring for 2.5 years and 27000 miles without any problems. Although my car is garaged, the clear bra has been great.

 

For the amount of work required to apply this spray-on, why not just leave it bare and repaint the front few years later when you collect enough chips? I think the body shop is try hard to sell it to you. I have a clear bra, no bubbles. You may want to ask how many people has bubbles in their clear bra as claimed before you believe that line.

 

Thanks guys.

The clear-bra has a history of satisfied customers. The spray-on alternative is endorsed by the body shop and a local dealership. I haven't found the C&D article but I'll accept that the highlight given above is correct.

I'll go with the clear-bra.

 

I had this product put on last year , because of the front bumper (Visage) a normal clear bra wouldn't work http://armorcoat.armorauto.com/
Worked well , covered the area I wanted and saved my paint .

 

Wait. So I am supposed to let them SCUFF up the area I am trying to protect to apply this spray? I assume then, this is irreversible.

No thanks.

 

+1, doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of a clear bra? Its removable so that is protects the ORIGINAL paint?

 

There are a couple of different products out there that are spray on. Debris shield and armor coat are two of a few out there. Debris shield is a spray on application that is temporary. It doesn't hold up to water at all It peels right off when your done with it unless it got wet and nasty. I suppose it's good if you're going on trip for a few days. The armorcoat stuff is nothing more, really, than a tougher and permanent clear coat on the paint. So, when it chips it chips and it's there to say. Okay, so they say its 4 times tougher than your paint. If you ask me that isn't very tough at all since your paint isn't tough to begin with...almost anything is tougher. Like I said, if you want to just add more clear coat than go for the armorcoat....or you can just respray every few years 'cause that's what you might need to do if have that armor coat stuff anyway....IMHO