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Gloved hands draw a squeegee across a sheet of clear film laid over the hood of a black Porsche 911, in a dark studio with white light bars reflected down the paint.

Gloss · paint protection film

Defender

The thick clear film, for the driver asking how much stone a hood can take before it chips.

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What it is for

Why Defender.

You drive gravel roads and winter highways, and you want to know how much a hood can take before it chips. This is the clear gloss film with its thickness printed on the roll, so you and the shop are talking about the same number. It goes on the parts of the car that meet the road first, and it disappears over the paint.

Defender · Gloss

Same hood. One half protected.

Drag the line. One side is protected, the other is bare paint. A stone that reaches the film leaves its mark in the film, which is the part that can be replaced.

  • 8 mil ✓
  • ceramic infused ✓
  • 10 years ✓
  • 60 in × 50 ft ✓

As printed on the Defender roll label.

The same grey sports car hood and fender from the same spot, the paint now peppered with small rock chips along the front edge, swirl marks circling the light-bar reflections and a few hairline scratches.
A dark gunmetal grey sports car's long hood and front fender seen from above the front corner, the paint deep and unmarked, the studio's white light bars reflecting in long unbroken lines.
ProtectedBare paint

Data sheet

What we can put on the label.

Ticked rows are verified: printed on the roll label or confirmed by ARK. A bracketed row is waiting for a measurement or the construction sheet, and it stays a bracket until one exists.

Defender

Thickness
8 mil ✓
Base material
⟨ pending spec sheet ⟩
Top coat
⟨ pending spec sheet ⟩
Self-heal activation
⟨ pending measurement ⟩
Water contact angle
⟨ pending measurement ⟩
Gloss at 60°
⟨ pending measurement ⟩
Elongation at break
⟨ pending measurement ⟩
Warranty
10 years ✓

Warranty

Term
10 years ✓
Transfers with the car
Yes ✓

What a claim covers: replacement film, and the labour to take off the failed film and fit the new one.Registered online, claimed through the shop that installed it.

Limits

What it does, and what it doesn’t.

It does

  • Takes stone chips, scuffs and light scratches in the film instead of the paint.
  • Closes light swirls in the top coat with heat.
  • Comes off again, professionally, without taking the factory clear coat with it.

It doesn’t

  • Stop hail. Hail dents the metal underneath, and no film changes that.
  • Close a gouge. If you can catch it with a fingernail, assume it stays.
  • Stay on the car indefinitely. Film is a wear layer, and the site states no service life because none has been measured.

Questions

Asked about Defender.

It is the thick film in the range, which is why it suits cars that see gravel, sand and winter road treatment. A thicker film gives a stone more material to deform before the energy reaches the paint.

Defender is a clear gloss film. It is meant to disappear over paint: no haze, no texture, the reflections as they were.
A dark, near-empty workshop at night seen down its centre line: a single dark car parked at the far end under a warm ceiling light panel whose reflection runs the length of the polished floor, steel columns and cool strip lights along both side walls.

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