Clear bra, vinyl wrap or good coat of wax?

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Let me put this in visual terms for you.
3M Protective Film Clear Bra Test - Automotive Articles .com Magazine

The clear bra kicks ***, and has already saved my 'vette from several chips. Get the leading portion of your fenders, hood, mirrors, the whole front-clip including lights, the leading edge of the roof, and the rockers and areas in front of the rear wheels done.

Every picture of cars chipped up that I have seen seems to concentrate the damage in these areas unless special circumstances occur. I can vouch that my car has been well protected so far given this level of coverage. I already have one area on my roofline that looks like that pellet-mark in the link I posted. Glad it's on a $50 piece than on my paint. Lots of people say that a custom install is best. Well, yeah, IF you don't get your paint cut up in the process, it does look better, however, you then have to re-do a LOT more than if you had just gotten a good pre-cut kit in the event that the wrap is damaged in a certain area and you want it replaced. With the kit, just replace that one piece. I got the kit, and it offers about 97% of the utility and look of the full-on custom wrap. With the added advantage of piece-meal replacement option.

I have Venturshield Ultra on my car, and it looks way better than 3M's product regarding the orange-peel and whatnot that you see in the car/test I liked you to. For example, here is the front of my car. The visible areas on the car with the wrap are 1/4 of the hood and fenders as well as the headlights and the whole front fascia.




In person, you can see a little line if you look close, but the texture/reflection doesn't show up nearly like it does on that S2000 with the 3M.