The wrap has an adhesive on it. I've just clear wrapped (dry, not wet application) some of the wear-prone areas on my spyders panels (around the ignition lock, access panels & knee contact areas) and once it's squeegee'd (is that a word?) down it stays put.
OK, in high-volume contact areas like a button it may eventually move, in which case you just replace it.
A tad off topic, but where'd you get it, TheM?? :dontknow:
I've got a recently purchased new Bitsamissin Outlander, and our first longish trip in it revealed that the leading edge of the roof at the top of the windscreen is somewhat prone to damage from high-velocity bug splatter (No, I'm not sayin' who or what was travelling at high velocity, just that it happened!
) I immediately thought of that stick-on Clear Protective Wrap, as we've used it previously with great success, only it's proving a bit hard to find a supplier up here in the Hills, so I might hafta head down into the big smoke...
Interestingly (at least to me!
) the last car but one had a 'bonnet protector' very much like that we've now got on the Bitsa, and it too suffered from 'high-velocity bug splatter damage' up there; but the car in between that & the Bitsa
DIDN'T have a bonnet protector and it has no signs of such damage on the roof, not even after almost twice the milage as the first... but it does have a little 'leading edge of the bonnet damage' from the bugs & road debris! :sour: So I wonder if the bonnet protectors are simply changing the air (& bug) flow over the bonnet such that their first point of contact with the car body is the leading edge of the roof instead of the bonnet?! :dontknow:
Back ON-topic, as mentioned, we've used that 3M Clear Protective Wrap on many of our 'off road' & 'on water' machines very successfully - on body panels; 'windows'; and suspension components that were getting sand-blasted over time. Sure, we had to replace it occasionally, but doing that was a whole lot easier, quicker, & cheaper than painting &/or otherwise resurfacing those things! And we found that it worked very well on the dash too!! Initially just covering the exposed bits, but it wasn't long before mud & water & other crap got into the switches & gauges etc, so we covered them all with the wrap, stopping all that stuff from getting in & doing any damage. We hadta replace that every season (or when we changed/fixed anything on the dash) but it really worked a treat!
So Allen, if our experience with that ^ is anything to go by, I really doubt that you'd have too much hassle with it 'slipping off' - especially if you used the 3M Clear Protective Wrap... at least not that you couldn't resolve by replacing it once a year or so! :thumbup:
pps: AUD$32 delivered for a 1000 x 1500 sheet. I'm sure it's not the best you can buy & I only applied it to fairly 2D surfaces (no fancy 3D contours requiring heat and/or stretching) but so far, so good. PM me if you'd like to know the seller details.
