Hope you find this useful. This was a VentureShield paint protection installation I had done today By AutoArmor in Bakersfield, CA. Here’s the link to the product and the folks who did the install in my garage. Overall I’m very pleased with the service which include a lifetime guarantee and took about 4 hours. I’ve attached a photo story below which covers the fairing, front fender, saddle bag, and gas tank. I also had the headlight, cowbells and headlight nacelle but ran out of battery power – sorry.
“The king has no clothes!” or so the story goes since the challenge of a photo story on paint protection is you can’t see anything – or that’s the hope and goal at the end. Before and after pictures are indistinguishable. The film protection can only be seen upfront and personal. The best I can tell you on what it looks like is that film protection under the stock seat and the top of the side panels just below the edge of the seat.
Some quick notes:
- The installer/dealer pre-ordered the kit in advance but the kit is an SG and not SESG so you custom cutting of film is required during installation.
- The kit comes with 3 pieces for the fairing: top, lower left and lower right. It also has 2 options for these lowers (must be for various fairing designs).
- Kit also comes with saddle bag side top and front face. Since the SESG has longer bags, installation was improvised to cover the lower portion of the bags
- Not sure if the kit came with the front fender protection, but he installed one never-the less. It may be that the kit comes with a rectangular piece to customize – which he had to do.
- The gas tank does not come as a kit and I had him protect 1/3 of the tank from the seat forward on both sides. He had to improvise and cut this on the fly.
- The Kit comes with a headlight and 2 passing lamp film. I don’t have passing lamps and the headlight film was too small. The dealer improvised by cutting a custom one however.
- The dealer noted that since the cowbells and nacelle is painted, he cut some film to protect them as well.
- All in, his finesse with a razor blade and installation was great.
- There are a few bubbles, but due to a solution mix, it will evaporate and eliminate the bubbles.
- Hard to tell if the film is on since it is crystal clear and can only see the edges if the light catches the edge just so.
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