I called my local ppf shop today to schedule a time for my silver Lucid agt that I'll receive at the end of this month. They recommended 10 mils xpel on the very front and 8 mils elsewhere, and I' thinking only doing from the windshield and forward. I was surprised to hear them saying that you may want to replace the xpel at five years because if you keep it on for ten years and remove it, it'll for sure take some paint with it in some areas to the extent that you'll need to repaint. It sounded like just to repaint such areas or panels but not the entire car. I'm not sure it'll look good to partially repaint a ten-year-old car. Anyhow, and as comparison, I keep my silver 2014 Altima in the garage and at the airport I keep it in a (nice) parking garage that has soft padded dividers (hanging down from the ceiling) been the stalls, and the paint looks like new. It doesn't have any ppf, and I don't remember ever even vaxing it since I bought it new. It only has five or less ~1/32 diameter small rock chips in the front that I've just dotted a little touchup paint in. I wasn't aware of that xpel actually may long-term damage your paint when the xpel is removed. Does anyone know if this is true or how serious it is? Since the ppf shop told me about it I think I must believe it. Any thoughts?
In case the local weather matters for xpel, I'm in WA in the very northwest, and it's not often we have it in the mid 80s and above and in the winter it's seldom below freezing.
