Pinnacle of Protection - Divo at Topaz Detailing

Pinnacle of Protection

When you own one of the world’s priciest new cars, it’s safe to say you want it to stay that way. Topaz Detailing run us through protecting an member’s $6 million Bugatti Divo.

Written by: Topaz Detailing

At Topaz, we pride ourselves on often being the first to work on some of the world’s greatest cars. The Bugatti Divo is, without doubt, one of those cars and we had the pleasure of having the first customer car in the world, ‘DVO 1’, in our workshop. The car in question not only belongs to a good customer of ours, but also a long-standing Supercar Driver member. In fact, the owner has such a good relationship with Bugatti that not only did he have the first Divo on the road, but also the first Chiron!

This Divo came to us directly from the Bugatti factory for our Level 2 Enhancement Detail, followed by full paint protection film coverage. For those of you who are new to paint protection film (PPF), it’s an invisible shield, like a wrap (but more advanced), that protects the paintwork on your car. PPF guards against stone chips, scratches, swirl marks and minor scuffs.

PPF needs to be cut to fit perfectly on each panel of the car. At Topaz, we are very careful that this never happens on the car. We use state of the art plotters which can precut every section from our digital database of designs. Given that this was the first Divo in the world, there weren’t any PPF designs already on our database or anywhere in the world, unsurprisingly. This means that before we could start protecting the car, our technicians patterned every panel, allowing them to be digitised and uploaded to our database in-house.

Due to the unique design of the Divo, we actually had to use two kinds of PPF on the car. Gloss and Stealth films do the same job, however they have different finishes. Gloss PPF, as the name suggests, gives a gloss finish, and is used to protect gloss paintwork and carbon fibre. Stealth PPF on the other hand gives a satin finish, and is used to protect satin paintwork, or even convert gloss paint to a satin finish. This particular car has a mixture of satin blue paint and exposed blue carbon fibre, which we protected with our Stealth and Gloss films respectively. Since protecting the world’s first Divo, we’ve actually been fortunate to work on two more of these $6 million hypercars, and hopefully we’ll see several more of the 40 that are to be made.

Scan the QR code below to watch the full PPF process for this very car! @topazdetailing