Paint Protection Film - Which looks best?

Any consensus as to which paint protection film (3M, Ventureshield or XPEL) looks best and least noticeable on a 2012 Prius? We are getting a blizzard pearl one if that makes a difference. So far it seems like most places around here use 3M, but I feel that I've heard that has more of an orange peel look. Also, how much should I expect to pay for the full hood, bumpers, fenders, and whatever else might be necessary? I tried to call one place but they won't give me a price because I don't have the car yet and the dealer offers the service, which I thought was ridiculous since I have no intention of going through the dealer.

 

We are definitely looking into other installers. I almost hung up on the guy who wouldn't give me a price. My feeling is if I'm calling before I have the car, I clearly have no intention of going through the dealer. I have asked the dealer to look into it, just to see, but the salesman keeps trying to push Simoniz on me and I really can't see any benefit to that. He also doesn't really seem to know what he's talking about. We are having leather and heated seats installed and they weren't going to replace the door panels or center console with leather and thought it was odd that I had heard this is a common thing to do. I would have been livid if I got the car back and they weren't done. Anyway, I called the Lexus dealership in town about PPF and they install it themselves, so I'm not sure if I'm crazy about taking it there because I don't know how much experience they have. The Porsche and Mercedes dealerships didn't pick up when I called and I feel a little silly calling the even higher end dealerships in town, but we'll see.

 

I'm pretty sure the guy I called who wouldn't give me the price does all the after market leather installation for the Toyota dealers in CT, so I would think that he would be the subcontractor for the PPF as well. Lexus uses the 3M film, so would it be correct to assume the warranty is that provided by 3M? That's my main concern with the Lexus place, I have no clue what the installer's skill would be like and they are not listed on 3M's website as an installer. I'm just not sure how common it is to have this done to begin with and I would be shocked if they had installed it on more than one Prius, if any.

 

I've looked on both 3M's website and Xpel's. There are not that many places too close to me. With Xpel, I called one of the few that had the 4 symbol's indicating the volume that they install and they told me that they use 3M, so I don't know how reliable the website is.