Quote:
Does anyone have any experience pulling the clear bra off? Just wonder if there will be any discoloration with protected and nonprotected paint?
Well, I'm on my first clearbra, but I believe that my experience with my black 1996 993 can suffice as a fairly valid test...
The material Porsche uses for protection on the front of your rear wheel arches (I call them stone guards) is the same exact 3M material, it's just not quite as thick. When I purchased my 993 as a used car in the summer of 2003, it had the original stone guards on it, and they were pretty-much thrashed. The rest of the car was a well-cared-for, 43,000 mile beauty. So I decided that it was a MUST-DO to remove the old original stone guards, and install new. I removed the old ones myself. Once removed, I wiped the area with a citrus-based paint-safe adhesive remover to remove all the residual adhesive, and then I polished the area with Meguiars #7 cleaner/glaze. After 7 years of being on the car, there was zero discoloration, zero shadow or shrink-line around the perimeter. It was perfect. I then had the local 3M authorized installer come out to put my new pieces on. He's the one who clued me in about the clearbra. The nose of my 993 wasn't bad, but it was chipped and touched-up to the point that investing in a clearbra on it was pointless. But when I got my new 997, I had him put it on right away.
