CRAZY ? Contact film for scratch avoidance

Go to this site and get the scratch resistant film for cars. Better than anything else that you could put on.

http://www.4wdworld.com.au/products/scratchpro/index.htm

Willie,
I to have light colourd vehicle Champane is what Toyota call it. (goes with the price of Cruisers back in '92). My vehicle has done the odd trip and it does have a few marks but not that easy too see. I am trying to think of where in the desert that you might get scratches from branches.
I did see a Cruiser that had sheets of fride magnet stuff on the guards, but I think that it would scratch the body more putting the stuff on and off.
Once you have the first scratch and you learn to live with it, the following scratches don't hurt as much.

Wayne

Willie
I usally give mine a good wax and polish started doing this from new when your in the highcountry amongst the blackberrys you end up with heeps of scratchs when you get home you give it quick cut polish gets most of them out.

My car is a metalic red shows the scratchs even more compared to white.

Willie,
For what purpose did you buy a 4WD. It is hard to understand that if you venture off road you know you will get your vehicle scratched, and now you want to cover it in cotton wool.
Bob P
Qld. Member

Don't worry about them , our's is metallic blue & boy do's it show the scratches but I figure I brought it to go bush in so thats what you get & will worry about it when it's time to upgrade

Willie, scratches are like rinkles ya learn to live with them. I got both and not all on the car.

Baz.

Hi Willie,

I have just shelled out $60,000 for a gleaming 4WD. When I picked it up from the dealer I was scared to touch it in case I left a fingerprint such was the magnificence of the $1,000 wash that is sometimes called Dealer Delivery.

3 weeks on it is covered in dirt from the Finders Ranges and from Cape Jervis last week. I am now scared to wash it to reveal the scratches! Think I'll just leave the dirt on it.

Seriously though.. I paid alot of money for it but I certainly am not scared of scratching it. These vehicles are built for a purpose. I bought the Champagne brown colour because I liked the lighter interior but also because I think the sctaches don't show up quite as much as other colours, particularly darker colours. My mum's navy blue commodore showed EVERY little nick and scratch (also see comment above).

I had a Mazda MX-5 in Gold and would have nearly cried if that got scratched. I washed it constantly to keep it looking it's best (and enjoyed washing it as nearly as much as driving it!), but the Prado will only get a wash when it really needs it. It is a bush wagon. Appearance is less important.

If you find a good product that you can apply to protect the scraping of branches down the sides the best of luck to you. Personally I don't know if it is worth the hassle.

Each to their own!!!!!

Cheers
Steven

We all hate hearing scratching noises down the side of our vehicles, but if you use it for what it is built for this is going to happen.
We just head out & dont worry about it.......................have a good time & give it a good wash & polish when we get back home.
get in to it & enjoy what you have .............thats what its for.
PMK

some of the scratches we have had on our patrol have been awfull.
but then again, as everyone else has allready said, its a 4by, so dont worry about it.
i put one scratch down the left hand side ( from front to back, just below the mirror line) that for the life of me, i could not polish out.
took the patrol off to the local panel beater and forked out $160.
got it back in the arvo looking as good as new, even fully detailed inside.
then went out the following sunday and scratched it again :).
mate, its made for going off-road, so just use it.
worry about the scratches when you get home, then give it to a panel beater for a day. all fixed.

rick.

Ever tried getting a sticker off a car after its been on for a while. The film usually comes off pretty easily but then you spend the next 6 months trying to get all the glue off & all the dust & muck starts sticking to it. Go the Scratchpro or just get used to scratches.

After taking my mates gu111 Patrol and my gu111 Patrol down a track which at the end seemed to be a walking track and could not turn around i recon this is a good idea, because we both had tears by the end of the track which we now call the scratch track.I will try this out
cheers Tim

What is it with most of you guys that want to give me a lecture about how I should not worry about scratches .

I have owned a nasty Nissan , a rattling Landrover, a converted V8 TLC 60 series , an 80 Series petrol , an 80 series TD and now a 100 series TD . I have been up the Cape twice and through the center and the NT many times .I fished the tracks in the Snowy for twenty years .

I HAVE HAD PLENTY OF SCRATCHES - OK - yes PLENTY .

Why must I let my car get scratched when I don't bloody well want to . I am about to take a big trip and feel like protecting my investment .

Thanks for all those who gave me some constructive comments .

Willie