I think the first time I met Jim Beech was on November 19, 2022. We met in his front parking lot. I told him I was only interested in the matte Kavaca and Xpel, and saw that he was an installer of Kavaca, and I had already gotten an estimate for Xpel. I told him my search for Kavaca locally came up with GNJ and SoCal, and he said we are all one big company and he pointed down to your building. He then gave me a verbal quote for $4,600 on a full PPF Kavaca wrap and then took me through his shop, first showing me his Ceramic Pro Kavaca IR ceramic window tint display and then some cars he was working on. We made an appointment that day to bring my Bronco in on November 28, 2022. He kept it for over a week before getting started and I finally got it back on December 22. The hood's bug deflector was on crooked, my gas lid release mechanism was missing, one of my interior door panels had multiple scratches, and wide gaps showing shiny paint were in several locations. I was not happy but told them I needed it for awhile and would come back for warranty work. Instead of $4,600 they charged me almost $6,200, and then asked if I wanted to give my installer a tip... I told them let's see if the repairs would fix it and maybe then I would tip cash.
After getting my Bronco home and really looking at it closely I found dark particles stuck behind the PPF and thinned areas on my hood.I made an appointment to meet with Jim Beech and my installer, Caleb, to complain about everything I found. Jim was late and Caleb wasn't there. We stayed in the parking lot and Jim was getting heated. He tried to intimidate me by saying their work is as good as anybody's in the area, and he would consider dropping me altogether if I didn't stop saying their work was crap. He settled down and said I could bring it in anytime for the PPF replacement.
I wanted to wait awhile before taking it back in for warranty work because it was winter and it needed warm sunny days to get bubbles out. I took it back in on April 11, 2023, and gave them a list of what I wanted them to fix. I told them I got an email from Nanoshine that said I needed to have a Ceramic Pro installer verify the thinned areas on my hood and they would pay to replace it. When I picked up on April 18, they had not replaced the PPF on my hood, which is clearly thinned by stretching, and two of the areas with PPF replacement (front right door, and the lower strip under my grill) were cut in place, with a razor knife, and not around the perimeter. Jim said that since he could not see the thinning on the hood from 3 feet away, and only could see it in certain light, that it's not approved for warranty replacement - this he said in front of my wife and Caleb. I couldn't leave it there any longer because I entered my Bronco in the Bronco Super Celebration East to be in the show field. That is where I met Steven Annis, and saw the job you guys did on his front end Kavaca wrap. I told him his looked perfect with no pieced-together sections, and then showed him mine. I asked where he had his installed and he said SoCal in Knoxville. I told him that was part of the same company where I had mine installed, and that's when he showed me the companies had different owners.
Since then I've asked for an itemized invoice and my Kavaca warranty card, and I brought my Bronco to SoCal for inspection and a sample replacement of the section under my grill, which revealed the paint is scratched where the PPF was cut by Caleb at GNJ. Billy sprayed water on my hood and determined the PPF is not hydrophobic and you did a puncture test with a pen on the removed section and compared it to a puncture test with the same pen on SoCal's Kavaca and determined my PPF to be an inferior product. read more