Why Would you do This??

[adonuff]

Hi took a pic of this the other day and still wondering why anyone would bother, The head, parking and indicators wouldn't work all that well the no. plate is not visable, the grill was half covered and the dirt and grit would have to get in between the cover and the paint and shurly scratch the paint.
Suppose it might be good for speed camera's??

Andrew

[dullbird]

protects the car against stone chips on the paint........or perhaps its a concept car :lol2: if it had a roll down flap over the radiator it would be used for wading;)

[adonuff]

There was what looked like splatters of wet sandy stuff all over the bonnet and bull bar dissapearing under the cover, cant be a good thing for the paitwork?

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Waste of time and money. The paint will be wrecked by the abrasion of the "protector".

[Hymie]

I believe the modern politically correct term for having such a set up would be "owner-operator".
Us older ones would use the non-PC term of "******".

[Grockle]

They come from the US were they are called 'hood bras',bit pointless on an off roader I would have thought, but each to there own.

[djam1]

Do you mean drive a Toyota or have meshthing of the front of your Toyota,
I think in the world of tools it is supposed to stop damage from stone chips etc.
The beauty of a Land Rover is this is the last thing you are concerned about lol

[Chucaro]

.....Us older ones would use the non-PC term of "******".
Or....."Pajero" :D

[alien]

Might not see well at night, He can live with that.
Might hold moisture but, He can't see it's so it not a problem.
No. plate covered but hey, He owns a 4wd/I mean the road so doesn't care.
But atleast theres no stone chips, He couldn't live with that.


Mate off mine used to wash his Nissan by hand after every trip and could tell me how many stone chips he had and which trip they were from.

Cheers.

[d@rk51d3]

Obstruction of the number plate might be an issue too.

[robzilla]

most car bra's are pretty useful, that one looks like an exceptionally poor fit though.

I'd consider one if had a new car and was doing a long distance trip, help save a few stone chips etc.

Allthough leaving them on all the time doesn't ruin your paint as such, but the paint under the bra doesn't fade from the elements, so when you take it off you can find yourself a two-tone bonnet :o

[spudboy]

In a previous life I had a 911 (which has a huge amount of frontal paintwork) which the previous owner had fitted with an "invisible bra" film. Stuck on. Could almost not see it. Stopped normal stone chips from country driving. About 1000% less obvious than the one in the photo :o

[subasurf]

I pride my Forester on being covered in scrapes and scratches and dings from offroading and the dent on the side from my silly sort of roll over :p

[Captain_Rightfoot]

In a previous life I had a 911 (which has a huge amount of frontal paintwork) which the previous owner had fitted with an "invisible bra" film. Stuck on. Could almost not see it. Stopped normal stone chips from country driving. About 1000% less obvious than the one in the photo :o

Those are a far far better option than those stupid "bras". I had the honor (??) of crashing an elise once (well maybe more of a minor off) and the only damage was that it had one of those stupid bra's on and it got pulled and where the clips were it damaged the bodywork :(

Those bras are only for people that don't understand that paint is made of plastic, and that plastic is not far up on Mohs scale of hardness, unlike all that other minerals that will inevitably get stuck between the bra and the paintwork.

[Shonky]

WOFTAM! :angel: