My only experience with vinyl wrapping is with rally cars but from what I’ve seen the protection would be marginal. It would easily protect against the little scratches that mark the clear coat but are easily polished out. However anything that would properly scratch the paint would most likely tear the vinyl and still dig in to the paint. It also doesn’t offer much protection against stone chips. It would slow them down but I would bet one run down something like the Birdsville track would see the rear wheel arches on a D4 looking pretty ordinary.
As a Defender driver I don’t really give a stuff about paint protection (actually I didn’t really care when I had a Disco either). However I was impressed by the stuff that Scott (LRD414) was running on his Disco when we did the Simpson last year.
If you did it purely for protection I don’t think wrapping would be worth the expense. Ballpark figure for a vinyl wrap would be around $5k depending on what you do. Although the Disco has a lot of glass the panels are still pretty big. Also a big part of the cost of wrapping is the labour. To do it properly you need to pull things like indicators and trim off to wrap the vinyl underneath them which all takes time. Not doing a decent job on a Disco would just look terrible.
Cheers,
Jon
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