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FlexiShield WSH — PPF Film With a 10-Year Warranty

FlexiShield WSH: a 203 µm PPF film with a 10-year manufacturer warranty. The middle step between the base and thickest films in the FlexiShield range.

Your car covers most of its miles on the motorway. A colleague who went with the base film ended up, after two years, with a bonnet and bumper full of small punched-through pits, and that's not a risk you want to run again. At the same time, you don't want to pay for the thickest film we offer when your car would never put all of it to use.

FlexiShield WSH is the thicker of the four films in our FlexiShield range: 203 µm of TPU material, with a heat-activated self-healing topcoat and haze below 1.0%, so what you see on the car stays the paint, not the film. The manufacturer backs it with a 10-year warranty. In the range it sits in the middle, between the base film and the thickest film we offer. We install FlexiShield film under a certification issued by the manufacturer abroad.

How it differs from its neighbouring lines

The base FlexiShield BHP is 191 µm with an 8-year manufacturer warranty – enough for a stone chip picked up around town, but on the motorway more gets through it. WSH adds 12 µm of thickness and two extra years of warranty, a difference that shows up first on a motorway-driven car. Above WSH sits FlexiShield WSH Pro, at 216 µm and a 12-year warranty – a further step in thickness for a car that covers gravel or unpaved roads, where every impact counts, not just the speed behind it. Between WSH and WSH Pro the gap is 13 µm, smaller than the gap between BHP and WSH, but noticeable on a hard-driven car. How motorway mileage should steer that choice of thickness is covered in a separate article, The car that mostly drives on the motorway.

Where it has a limit

Even a 203 µm film is a physical layer, not a shield. It stops the stone chip that would otherwise pit the paint, but a harder impact – a stone kicked up from gravel, say – can still punch through it, just less easily than through the thinner BHP. Whatever is already on the paint on the day of installation stays there: WSH doesn't cover up or polish out swirls or faded colour underneath it. The film also isn't fully invisible – it has thickness, and up close you can see where a panel's edge ends. The self-healing topcoat evens out wash marks and fine hairline scratches; it won't close a deeper scratch or a puncture. The 10-year warranty covers material defects over time, not impacts: for the work itself, we give our own two-year warranty. What a PPF film does and doesn't do in general is covered in What PPF film actually does – and doesn't.

When to choose a different route

Mostly city driving on a low annual mileage? The extra 12 microns over FlexiShield BHP won't show on a car like that – the base film is enough. Daily motorway miles, gravel, or an unpaved road out to a weekend place, and you're keeping the car for years? Look at FlexiShield WSH Pro instead. After a matte look rather than extra strength? That's a question of surface finish, not thickness – see FlexiShield BHP MAT. How much of the car to cover, and how the coverage options differ, is set out on PPF film and film for a single panel.