Protecting your front lights with wrap?

[BigApple]

Does anyone have advice on how to best protect the top front lights. I wanted to wrap them to avoid possible rock chips ..as i think Ceramic wont really protect them. but then i was told that wrapping could damage them. not sure what to do now. thank you

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[Fun TC Driving]

I have read several brands besides Porsche suggest not to PPF wrap their lights. That might have been a relevant caution when the lights were pre-LED, e.g., the old bulbs that heated up. But just as I have wrapped many other expensive headlights (would be at least $1,500 replacement cost for a single errant rock chip) on our last four Corvettes, our iX M60, etc), I will similarly have my installer PPF protect both the DRL’s and the headlights on our Macan EV.

 

[BigApple]

I have read several brands besides Porsche suggest not to PPF wrap their lights. That might have been a relevant caution when the lights were pre-LED, e.g., the old bulbs that heated up. But just as I have wrapped many other expensive headlights (would be at least $1,500 replacement cost for a single errant rock chip) on our last four Corvettes, our iX M60, etc), I will similarly have my installer PPF protect both the DRL’s and the headlights on our Macan EV.

I had an already broken plastic Protection on the Passenger Low/high beam light and that was around 2.5K Parts + 2.5K install. Touching the Broken clear plastic showed that it was not glass. It had a 2" hole. Gotta protect them somehow. Anything is better than nothing it seems.

 

[Tacoman]

I had an already broken plastic Protection on the Passenger Low/high beam light and that was around 2.5K Parts + 2.5K install. Touching the Broken clear plastic showed that it was not glass. It had a 2" hole. Gotta protect them somehow. Anything is better than nothing it seems.

$5k!
Porsche tax...

PPF feels like it's worth the risk...

 

[someTimesJoe]

Saw your damage in the other thread. PPF probably wouldn't have protected it much with it being plastic. Best case, kept it all in intact but still shattered. PPF installers are told not to PPF them but they'll do it still if requested.

I'm having the DRL and headlights PPF'd. It'll help at least with pitting and making it easier to clean without creating swirls.

 

[BigApple]

Saw your damage in the other thread. PPF probably wouldn't have protected it much with it being plastic. Best case, kept it all in intact but still shattered. PPF installers are told not to PPF them but they'll do it still if requested.

I'm having the DRL and headlights PPF'd. It'll help at least with pitting and making it easier to clean without creating swirls.

I am adding an additional glass in front of it with a little space between. Hopefully to avoid things in the future. When i am done i will show a picture. Need to make sure it won't impact the light throw in any way.

 

[Fun TC Driving]

We have different perspectives. We have had 8 or 10 mm PPF installed on our last three vehicles including of course sections of body panels but also covering all front lights. Drove tens of thousands of miles to over 42 states and 6 Canadian provinces while owning them, and while sure when one close up looked at the PPF when detailing you could see on every vehicle sporadic rock impact marks, perhaps just lucky but in not even one case did those rocks penetrate the PPF and damage the paint, glass, or plastic lenses.

In the driving rain, we hit a wooden chair at 68 MPH that fell off a pickup truck right in front of us, and while that explosive impact sound left us sure front fascia had been cracked and the headlight destroyed, yet when we stopped we saw no damage underneath the PPF, including that the headlight upon which were the chair’s impact marks on its PPF — yet it still worked perfectly.

We will do the same PPF install on our Macan’s selective body panels and all of its front lights for those reasons.

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