My car clothing was pasted in April last year, and it has been used for almost 15 months now, and I have experienced scratching of the car clothing, repairing the car clothing, and observing the changes of the car clothing for more than a year.
The above 5 pictures were taken by me this weekend, and on the second day of washing the car, you can see that the brightening effect of the car coat on the paint surface is still very obvious, the car coat protects the paint surface from being scratched and maintains the luster, and the color of the paint surface has also been relatively well protected. It realizes my original need to wear car clothing, which is to make the car look good every day.
But in the process of using the car clothing, I have definitely encountered 3 problems that seem to be pits, not pits, and can be taken out to discuss. Some of the station shared, I looked at it purely to promote their products, not at all the specific experience of using the "IQ tax" product of the car clothing, these three details, I see all the accounts that sell car clothing, are avoided to talk about.
Let's start with 3 questions:
- There is a high probability that the basic clothing will affect the use of millimeter-wave radar in the vehicle, which will make the radar false alarm. However, cutting the radar part of the car coat is likely to cause bubbles in the car coat structure. It may only be a pure visual solution like the new Tesla, which is a perfect fit for the car clothing.
- The car clothing has a certain anti-scratch ability, but once the paint surface is damaged while the car clothing is scratched, and it is the responsibility of the owner, then it is necessary to repair the paint surface, but also to re-attach the car clothing, and the money investment in repairing the car clothing is generally higher than that of the repair shop to make a paint.
- The car clothing from last year, the price I observed this year, has been reducing the price, this year 618 also once dived and cleared, and the development trend is to take the route of raw material localization, the price will continue to fall. In the past, everyone would think that a price was a good price, but with the development, if it does not fall, it will become a normal price or even a pit price.
Let's talk about the approximate price, function, and purchase ideas of the car clothing from my experience and purchase experience.
The price of the invisible car livery
First of all, let's talk about the unit of measurement of the invisible car clothing, generally a set is called 1, the complete size of 1 is 15m×1.524m, and the size of the entire MPV is sufficient, so the price of the invisible car clothing, for the cost of materials, any car should be charged 1 price.
As an industrial product, invisible car clothing naturally has different levels and different price points, mainly according to the clothing brand, imported or domestic, clothing thickness, and clothing particle materials to be priced. From the retail price, at present, 1 unbranded domestic car clothing is 1000-2000 yuan; 1 representative product of domestic brands with bulk positioning (represented by high-sales film Xiaoer, KDX, and Tuhu Ace) is 2000-3000 yuan; Domestic brands and fake foreign brands with boutique positioning, such as Yika and Rolilips. Even imported brands with a relatively long history, such as Dragon Film, Weigu, and XPEL, will bind product sales and construction depth, and there are few A to buy products and B to buy construction.
Then there is the construction man-hour cost, the price can not be reduced, the B-end platform quotation is 1200 for small cars, and 1800 for conventional cars. Generally, the store is based on the size of the car, depending on the person to cook, and the minimum size of the regular size can be about 1500, but it is still necessary to take into account the influence of the store environment and the master's craftsmanship.
Therefore, at present, the lowest price of a set of car clothing is 1500+1000 yuan, and there is no brand car clothing, and it is pasted within 3000.
Some new brands and miscellaneous brands are essentially OEM's unbranded. The so-called brands that have been in business for many years have now reduced the price and superimposed the e-commerce promotion within 4000, and some advanced models have also been reduced to 5000. According to the continuous progress of new products and localization, I am optimistic that in the future, the car clothing will be close to 3000 yuan to buy the entry model of brand goods, and about 4000 yuan to buy the advanced model of brand goods.
Functions and parameters of invisible car clothing
The invisible car coat is colorless and transparent, a layer of protective film attached to the paint surface plays a role in the scratching buffer, the inside of the car coat is glue, used to fix with the car, and the outside is coated, this coating is similar to the coating on the car paint, water repellent, brightened, so that the car in a clean state is more shiny. The core function is to prevent scratches, brighten the paint, improve the texture, and resist stains.
Anti-scratching is to look at the thickness and material of the car clothing. The thicker the coat, the thicker the armor, and the upper limit of scratch resistance is also increased.
In terms of materials, TPH and aromatic TPU are meaningless old calendars, and now they can't buy products made of these things.
In terms of thickness parameters, the current mainstream thickness is between 6.5mil-8mil, and the protection capacity in this interval is OK, and it is cost-effective, easy to construct, and the general store can wrap the edge paste. Although the upper limit of protection of 9mil-10mil clothing is higher, the construction cost, price, and construction difficulty of the clothing are greatly improved, so the cost performance is not good.
At present, all the car coatings on sale are basically aliphatic TPU particles (thermoplastic polyurethane) as raw materials, which are processed into films in the manufacturer, that is, car coatings, and the types of raw materials can not be differentiated. There are many articles about this kind of concept of masterbatch, and I was stunned.
When I bought the car jacket last year, I also believed in this set, but after 15 months of use, and after consulting with a classmate who works at BASF and specializes in polyurethane technology, I found that the concept was not completely correct.
In fact, any chemical giant can provide hundreds of different aliphatic polyurethanes, so this thing can't say who is good or bad with a brand at all, and the manufacturer's name is used as a product endorsement, so I don't think the choice of car clothing should be decided by a certain particle at present. The above is Lubrizol's TPU, the 2000 series are suitable for car clothing, but the parameters are different, the price is not the same, the technical data is not the same, there are high-end and low-end. Naturally, the low-end Lubrizol can't make high-end car clothing.
The brightening function of the car clothing is that the film and coating work together to make the paint reflective. At the same time, the car clothing will definitely yellow over time, even if the aliphatic polymer material will break the carbon chain aging, there will be a slight color difference, but the color difference is not large, for example, the electronic warranty is to ensure that the color difference value ΔE≤2, it is not yellowing. So my personal experience is that the car livery is not very suitable for pure white, and the dark car paint is even more promoting, even if there is a slight color change in the car livery will not be seen.
The essence of anti-fouling is to rely on the surface coating, the coating is equivalent to a layer of special substances that form a surface film, and the actual measurement, the position of the rain that is violently washed, the coating weakens after about half a year, and fails after a year. Not the vertical angle of the rain pounding, the coating is still there after 15 months. However, this coating can be used on the car coat through the coating agent and car wax, and there is no need to use any car coat curing agent, these are all a class of products. Coatings can be very cheap, and car coat care can be very cheap.
Protective effect and maintenance cost of invisible car clothing
In the scratches I actually encountered, the protective effect of the car clothing is still very good, but it is limited to the car clothing is not penetrating, if the bottom is penetrating, then it must be repaired with paint and clothing.
If it is a two-car accident, the other party is fully responsible, and the car clothing can help get a lot of cash compensation. If a bicycle accident, the insurance is not compensated, take the KDX I pasted as an example, the retail price of a set of pure car clothing is 3000, and the maintenance is generally cut 3 meters × 1.524 meters, so that 1 can make up two sides, that is, about 300 yuan can buy a surface scraping material, and then repair manually, remove the old and paste the new, 1 face 200-300, that is, I am such an entry-level domestic brand, repair the car clothing at my own expense 500-600 yuan. If it is a higher-grade car livery , there will be more expensive repair costs.
Therefore, the maintenance cost of the car clothing is high, and the bicycle clothing is more expensive than the repair shop to repair the paint, not to mention the accident of injuring the car clothing with the car paint. The car coat protects the car paint, breaks the car paint, and helps the car owner save money, which is essentially a false proposition, don't stick the car coat for such a reason.
The price reduction and development trend of invisible car clothing
Invisible car clothing has been getting cheaper and cheaper recently, on the one hand, there are more and more car clothing brands established, and the price is getting more and more rolling, most small factories have given more than 3000 prices with construction, like the KDX shield armor Pro I pasted, which belongs to the KDX6.7mil car film.
KDX 盾甲 Pro=金鳞甲=四相 Air=6.7mil 车膜。
Last year, it was 3100 to buy the film, 1700 to pay for the construction, 4800 to paste the whole car, and the PDD dealership to buy it. In 618 this year, Taobao directly gave the price of 3780-4180 (according to the model, the model is expensive, my car is 4180), and PDD's KDX flagship store gave the price of 3580, so the price of car film has dropped across the board this year.
And the price of stealth will be lower in the future, like domestic chemical giants, generally have TPU masterbatches that can be used for car coatings, and the domestic Wanhua Chemical has been supplied to domestic manufacturers, and the invisible car coats using Wanhua masterbatch are currently in stock.
In the context of a higher degree of localization, the main products of the brand in the future are bound to be concentrated in the 3000-3500 range.
Product recommendations for car clothing
I have shared before that the cheapest car clothing at present is still 1688 to buy unbranded TPU invisible car clothing, and then find construction by yourself, but this kind of purchase method is not enough after-sales, warranty, and brand trust. If you stick this kind of post, you generally contact the local auto parts city of the car owner through the reviews, and through the beauty shop in the auto parts city, you can choose the cheapest price of 3000 yuan in the store to contract labor and materials, and the after-sales service can be guaranteed through the store.
Then it is concentrated in the 4000-5000 price point, the future probability of further probing to the 3000-4000 price of domestic brand models, the current market is about the product history brand of 6.5mil-7mil clothing 4000 or so with construction is a reasonable price, 7.5mil-8mil clothing 4500-5000 with construction is a reasonable price. The way to find a store is similar to that of the car film, and the offline agent in your own city is to negotiate the price through the review, and to search for the source of the car clothing that can be guaranteed by electronic quality assurance through PDD or a fish, and then compare the price.
The reasonable price of this product basically depends on the offline store, how much profit the dealer is willing to make, how much discount is given, and there is basically no situation where it is more cost-effective to buy online. The budget is over 10,000 to see imports, and it is recommended to look at the domestic ones that are very expensive, and the domestic clothes that sell very expensive, my personal opinion is that it is of little significance, and the clothes are not like home appliances, high-end domestic brands can also install P, and the clothes are pasted, and they do not have the function of installing P.
How to look at the invisible car clothing product and purchase experience
I'll summarize it again:
- In actual use, the role of the car clothing is reflected in brightening, anti-fouling, and anti-scratching; If you are used to waxing and plating, you can consider buying a car coat, which is suitable for the appearance party. If it is decided to keep the value of the car and save money on car repair, then don't buy it, the car clothing is a product that can't be done.
- I don't think the car clothing is an IQ tax, it has a role, but it is not a practical role, it is not a rigid need, it is not cost-effective, but as long as it is not expensive, it is not an IQ tax.
- The price of car clothing continues to decrease, but the cost of working hours cannot be reduced, so it will be cheaper to paste car clothing in the future, but how it is also more than 2,000 things, which is a big expenditure in the automotive aftermarket.
- In fact, most riders are still willing to buy a brand with a car coat and seek stability. I think you can buy a domestic brand that has been in operation for many years, and it is a big brand with high quality and is fully imported, which is a more popular choice in the two budget stages.
- A new particle coat, try not to be the first batch of mice, for example, Wanhua Chemical Granules coat, this is new this year, cheaper than imports. If you want to stick this product, wait for 2 years and then observe, there are no examples of rollovers, and it will definitely be cheaper after 2 years, which is my advice.
Above, I hope it can help you.