New (to me) CT4-V BW Sebring

[The Satch]

Pulled the trigger on a Sebring edition, bought from Sewell in Grapevine. Very excited to get it in my hands:

I've been looking around the forum a bit, @so 650 I'm hoping you're OK if I pick your brain a bit on care for the paint and how happy you've been with your PPF

 

[so 650]

Nice looking car! I bought mine at Sewell Dallas and had it trucked out to the Bay Area. Are you driving yours home?

Mine has a full wrap with Xpel Stealth, which I'm very happy with. Actually the glossy bits have glossy PPF, and I did get the front splitter re-wrapped after I scraped up the PPF more than I was happy about seeing. I've since put on SLIPLO skid thingies and I'm happy with those too.

@Sebring20 is a member of the forum too, and when I met him his car had just the front wrapped. In bright light you could see the difference, that the wrap dulls the frost point slightly. The flip side is that I have a few small rock dings in my PPF that I'm sure enough are not in the paint that it's not stressing me out. So as the guy I paid thousands of dollars to for the wrap said "it might look 10% less cool, but you'll feel a lot better".

Enjoy, and welcome!

 

[The Satch]

Nice looking car! I bought mine at Sewell Dallas and had it trucked out to the Bay Area. Are you driving yours home?

Mine has a full wrap with Xpel Stealth, which I'm very happy with. Actually the glossy bits have glossy PPF, and I did get the front splitter re-wrapped after I scraped up the PPF more than I was happy about seeing. I've since put on SLIPLO skid thingies and I'm happy with those too.

@Sebring20 is a member of the forum too, and when I met him his car had just the front wrapped. In bright light you could see the difference, that the wrap dulls the frost point slightly. The flip side is that I have a few small rock dings in my PPF that I'm sure enough are not in the paint that it's not stressing me out. So as the guy I paid thousands of dollars to for the wrap said "it might look 10% less cool, but you'll feel a lot better".

Enjoy, and welcome!

I'm shipping it, enclosed. Might have thought about open if it wasn't a matte paint, but didn't want to expose that paint to road grime on a trailer for 1700 miles. I would have entertained driving it back if it was June, but for similar reasons to shipping it enclosed, I didn't want to drive it through Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and eastern Oregon this time of year in a 3 day marathon of 12 hour days. Taking my time driving it back would be nice, but work calls right now, and I wanted to make a thoughtful decision on paint protection before putting significant miles on it.

Not sure I'll be able to wait for wrap once it gets here though, I'm itching to drive it

 

[RDATLTE]

Pulled the trigger on a Sebring edition, bought from Sewell in Grapevine. Very excited to get it in my hands:
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I've been looking around the forum a bit, @so 650 I'm hoping you're OK if I pick your brain a bit on care for the paint and how happy you've been with your PPF

New or CPO?

 

[The Satch]

New or CPO?

CPO, 39XX miles

 

[so 650]

CPO, 39XX miles

That's pretty fresh! I just hit 16000 in my daily driver. It'll be a great moment when it rolls off the truck at home! This was mine, almost exactly 2 years ago:

 

[gen8888]

Congrats the car looks great. Definitely get it PPF'd immediately, that paint looks amazing. Do you mind sharing how much you paid?

 

[The Satch]

Congrats the car looks great. Definitely get it PPF'd immediately, that paint looks amazing. Do you mind sharing how much you paid?

I will admit that I paid probably a little more than I should have(possibly? I found there doesn't seem to be much room to negotiate on the IMSA editions), but I justify that due to me requiring one with no sunroof, as I don't fit in either the CT4 or CT5 with the sunroof, and finding one without proved to be very difficult. Paid 68k.

 

[gen8888]

I will admit that I paid probably a little more than I should have(possibly? I found there doesn't seem to be much room to negotiate on the IMSA editions), but I justify that due to me requiring one with no sunroof, as I don't fit in either the CT4 or CT5 with the sunroof, and finding one without proved to be very difficult. Paid 68k.

No that is a pretty good price seeing the very low mileage and the MSRP on those special edition plus paint is almost touching 90k. Plus being certified warrantied you get that extra year.

 

[1Evil55]

I will admit that I paid probably a little more than I should have(possibly? I found there doesn't seem to be much room to negotiate on the IMSA editions), but I justify that due to me requiring one with no sunroof, as I don't fit in either the CT4 or CT5 with the sunroof, and finding one without proved to be very difficult. Paid 68k.

I wouldn't feel bad about it. When you're smoking the tires, the last thing on your mind will be what you spent. I bought my IMSA with the same mileage in July 2024 for just under 70.