Paint Protection Film on New 2025 PHEV

Essentially. Yeah rain, shine, etc. But my shop asked to come again just for a courtesy inspection and free car wash. Wheeeee!!!! But good wishes!!! Hope others will get their money's worth!!!

 

There was a lady on my old street in the LA Westside. I think she was from Eastern Europe and liked to stay fit. She only drove dark-blue Priuses. I would see her washing them regularly. She went through three generations of dark-blue Priuses while I was there.

 

I drove a 1985 Light-Blue Metallic Toyota Corolla LE for many years. Light blue was a staple color of the 1980s. I really liked it.

The Blue Magnetism (aka Spirited Aqua Metallic in other countries) on my 2021 Prius Prime Limited is a spectacular color. With its ultraviolet glow and subtle green hint, it’s one of the best Toyota colors ever. They should have carried it over to Gen 5.

 

The Light Blue Metallic 1985 Toyota Corolla LE totalled in a hit-and-run in August 2019.

 

* A veritable greenhouse, sensible wheels and covers; those were the days. Looks like it still had bumpers too.

 

To each their own but no, I alternated and tried different colors. My first 2005 was blue though. But the 2025 color selections were... limited. I suppose they always were, but the 2013 prius persona i had in the black cherry was pretty. I almost went for that again lol. But ugh I didnt want years of ownership of another silver car.
Pictures of Past priis:
2005 Seaside Blue:


2008 Classic Silver Metallic:


2011 Classic Silver Metallic:
(Aftermarket Enkei RPF1 16x8 wheels)


2013 Persona Black Cherry Pearl:


2017 Sea Glass Pearl:


2025(oem cutting edge),
2025(wrapped)
(3m color ppf code)


LoL. So yeah more color options would be nice. But it IS supposedly an economy car? I don't usually go white, black, bright red or some of the past color options for personal or other various reasons. Hope you find the photos fun or funny. I had a used 1990 toyota camry and a used 1995 nissan maxima XLE prior. Hahaha going from the maxima to a 2005 prius was something else and now my 2025 prius has more Horsies than that 1995 160ish HP maxima.

 

That black cherry was an interesting very nice color!

You had an amazing Prius collection.

That emerald-green PPF looks great on the silver Gen 5! And @daisy555 spent two years looking to replace her silver Gen 2 with none other than a silver Gen 5. LOL

 

I also spent a "small fortune" to PPF the entire front of my 2024 Prime along with the entire body Ceramic coating. Almost a year later, wish I would have done the windows but I'll be seeing my local guy in a month or two anyways (he's super busy and is scheduling a month in advance) and may see about the windows then too. With another local guy recommended by the PPF/Ceramic guy, I also did a kind of similar ceramic protective undercoating instead of other traditional protective undercoating methods. I think others here have mentioned doing something similar to this too. I do consider both of these good investments especially living in Michigan.

 

Thank you. Well, two silvers down and more to go for USER=138599]@daisy555[/USER]. But as I said to each their own. And a complete color change ppf can cost more than a new paint job. LoL. Now I need a new set of bronze or dark/burnished gold 17" wheels. Some matching badges... etc. LoL

-Cal

 

Salt belt... even worse than NY. Good luck there! Yeah, had my 2013, and 2017 ppf'd on the front and it worked wonders compared to my poor 2008 and 2011; the hood and front bumper were full of paint chips and dings from road salts and rocks and things. I hope your under carriage will cover what you hope it will. Make sure the coating is going on the right places and not just on the under carriage shielding.
My front brakes on my 2017 suffered rust jacking in the pads just after 3.5 years. Caused gauges on the rotors too. Was pretty mad and asked the dealership if I could see only because I never had that problem on previous models. The brakes usually last like forever! ooops turned into a bit of a salt belt rant. Best wishes on your ceramic endeavors! Gotta look into it further.

 

OMG!!! Hugs! Wish I could give this another like just because blast from the past!!!
No, unfortunately I was not big on evidence pictures, I mean memorable pictures back then especially my old camry. Sigh. I do have a snow covered one of my 1995 Maxima and 2008 prius (thank you Hammersmith for the correction/confirm. The fog light thingy on the 3rd gen) respectively. LET IT SNOW!!! And it confused me until Hammersmith pointed out the black of the fog lights thingy on the 3rd gens.

 

Just to be clear, you're asking what Prius gen is the car in the second picture? If so, it has to be a gen2. It's absolutely not a gen3 of any type(pre or post facelift). The gen3 has a dark gray plastic segment in the lower corners for the turn signal and fog lights(if equipped). The car in the picture doesn't have them.

 

Ahhh thanks. So my original picture comment was correct. There was a date mismatch in the photo info too. Yeah the headlights kinda made me wonder much too much snow lol.

Hah! Thanks. 2008 then. Total mismatch on the dates. Yeah the fog light thingy. Much obliged.