Stone Guard™ Door Edge Protection

Stone Guard™: Door Edge Paint Protection

When it comes to vehicle paint damage there are two main areas that are the most heavily affected. The first is the front of the vehicle, because it is the most exposed to road debris, and the second is the door edges, because city street parking and parking lots leave little room for entering and exiting your vehicle. When your door hits a nearby vehicle, telephone poll, parking meter,  or high curb, the paint easily chips around the door-edge pinch welds. With a simple strip of protective film this is easily avoided, and is one of the least expensive applications we offer at the shop.

At Diversity Auto Films we offer a range of extremely durable but completely transparent paint protection films that can be applied to your vehicle’s door edges. The protection package outlined here is a two door edge package that covers the complete passenger door edges of your vehicle. Read on to see how we do it, and click through to contact us with any questions or to make an appointment.

What is involved
How we do it and why.

To complete a paint protection package we need to make sure the door panels being protected are impeccably clean and that we have factory cut films specific to your vehicle’s make and model.

To prep the paint surface we start by washing and drying all of the surfaces that will have protection films applied. In this case, each of the four door sills. We then clay bar the areas to remove any imperfections or contaminants like wax, grease, dirt, or industrial fallout from pollution.

When the vehicle is perfectly clean, the films are cut specifically for the vehicle’s make and model. We do not have to order any paint protection films for our clients, instead, we are able to print films that are pre-cut for the proper size and dimensions of every make and model of car in the world.  By manufacturing the films on site, we save you time and money, create less waste, can perform a “knife-less” installation, and achieve a fit and finish that will go way beyond your expectations.

With a clean vehicle and custom films ready, we apply a slippery solution to the vehicle so we can easily centre the film on the panel. When it is perfectly aligned, we squeegee the remaining solution out from underneath, setting it in place. We allow the edges of the film wrap around the bottom of the hood to make a seamless install that is invisible to the naked eye from almost any distance.

To permanently set the film, it goes under infrared lights, similar to what we use for windows, for about 15 mins per panel to cure the adhesive. IR light penetrates the film to cure the adhesive, and we favour this method over using heat guns that just heat the surface and cause discolouration and can damage the material.

Once the panels are set, the vehicle is ready to be returned to the owner with a rock hard paint protection unrivalled in the industry.

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