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Carbon Transparent
$2,499.00
Description
What is Carbon Transparent PPF?
Apterix CLR Carbon Transparent is a ceramic-infused clear paint protection film (PPF) with an embossed carbon fiber weave texture on its surface. Unlike color PPF, it does not change the vehicle's base paint color — the film is optically clear, allowing the original finish to show through completely. What it adds is a subtle, tactile carbon fiber pattern visible across the paint surface, giving the vehicle a high-tech, motorsport-influenced appearance without wrapping, repainting, or modifying the underlying color.
Key features:
- Finish: Clear with embossed carbon fiber weave texture — color-preserving, not color-changing
- Optical clarity: Original paint color, depth, and gloss remain fully visible beneath the film
- Texture: Uniform carbon fiber weave pattern across the installed surface
- Self-healing coating: Minor surface scratches disappear with heat exposure, maintaining the texture's integrity
- Hydrophobic surface: Repels water, road grime, brake dust, and environmental contaminants for low-effort maintenance
- UV resistance: Protects original paint from UV fading and oxidation beneath the film
- Flexible wrap material: Conforms to body curves, panel edges, and complex contours without lifting or distortion
- Ceramic infusion: Hard, impact-resistant base layer protecting against rock chips and abrasion
- Technology base: Apterix CLR Color PPF platform
What vehicles is it best for?
Carbon Transparent suits luxury vehicles, performance cars, and sports builds where the owner wants to retain the original factory color — or a custom paint investment — while adding a distinctive textured surface detail. It is particularly effective on black, dark grey, or dark blue vehicles, where the carbon fiber texture reads most clearly against the base color. It also works as a functional complement to genuine carbon fiber body panels, extending the carbon aesthetic across painted surfaces without adding visual weight.
What problem does it solve?
Carbon fiber wraps and vinyl overlays add a carbon look but provide no surface protection — and they completely obscure the original paint. Genuine carbon fiber body panel replacement is permanent, expensive, and alters the vehicle's factory specification. Standard clear PPF protects paint but adds nothing visually. Apterix CLR Carbon Transparent occupies a distinct position: it protects original paint from chips, UV degradation, and contamination while simultaneously adding a factory-grade carbon fiber texture across the surface — one installation, two outcomes, zero color alteration.
Where is it available?
Installed by Supreme Wraps at locations in Dallas/Frisco TX, Orlando FL, Scottsdale AZ, and Orange County CA. Reservation-based scheduling with panel-off installation for seamless, edge-to-edge coverage and a factory-quality result.
Description
What is Carbon Transparent PPF?
Apterix CLR Carbon Transparent is a ceramic-infused clear paint protection film (PPF) with an embossed carbon fiber weave texture on its surface. Unlike color PPF, it does not change the vehicle's base paint color — the film is optically clear, allowing the original finish to show through completely. What it adds is a subtle, tactile carbon fiber pattern visible across the paint surface, giving the vehicle a high-tech, motorsport-influenced appearance without wrapping, repainting, or modifying the underlying color.
Key features:
- Finish: Clear with embossed carbon fiber weave texture — color-preserving, not color-changing
- Optical clarity: Original paint color, depth, and gloss remain fully visible beneath the film
- Texture: Uniform carbon fiber weave pattern across the installed surface
- Self-healing coating: Minor surface scratches disappear with heat exposure, maintaining the texture's integrity
- Hydrophobic surface: Repels water, road grime, brake dust, and environmental contaminants for low-effort maintenance
- UV resistance: Protects original paint from UV fading and oxidation beneath the film
- Flexible wrap material: Conforms to body curves, panel edges, and complex contours without lifting or distortion
- Ceramic infusion: Hard, impact-resistant base layer protecting against rock chips and abrasion
- Technology base: Apterix CLR Color PPF platform
What vehicles is it best for?
Carbon Transparent suits luxury vehicles, performance cars, and sports builds where the owner wants to retain the original factory color — or a custom paint investment — while adding a distinctive textured surface detail. It is particularly effective on black, dark grey, or dark blue vehicles, where the carbon fiber texture reads most clearly against the base color. It also works as a functional complement to genuine carbon fiber body panels, extending the carbon aesthetic across painted surfaces without adding visual weight.
What problem does it solve?
Carbon fiber wraps and vinyl overlays add a carbon look but provide no surface protection — and they completely obscure the original paint. Genuine carbon fiber body panel replacement is permanent, expensive, and alters the vehicle's factory specification. Standard clear PPF protects paint but adds nothing visually. Apterix CLR Carbon Transparent occupies a distinct position: it protects original paint from chips, UV degradation, and contamination while simultaneously adding a factory-grade carbon fiber texture across the surface — one installation, two outcomes, zero color alteration.
Where is it available?
Installed by Supreme Wraps at locations in Dallas/Frisco TX, Orlando FL, Scottsdale AZ, and Orange County CA. Reservation-based scheduling with panel-off installation for seamless, edge-to-edge coverage and a factory-quality result.
Delivery & Returns
For in stock items, orders placed before 12pm CST will be processed and shipped the same day. Please expect fulfillment to shipping to take 4-7 business days.
We are not responsible for carrier delays.
Returns: All sales are final. No returns are allowed.
Delivery & Returns
For in stock items, orders placed before 12pm CST will be processed and shipped the same day. Please expect fulfillment to shipping to take 4-7 business days.
We are not responsible for carrier delays.
Returns: All sales are final. No returns are allowed.
Warranty
APTERIX warrants to the Original Owner only that, during the applicable Warranty Period, the Registered Product will be free from qualifying manufacturing defects, subject to all terms, conditions, limitations, and exclusions in this Limited Product Warranty.
Applicable Warranty Periods:
- APTERIX: PRO — Fifteen (15) years
- APTERIX: EVO — Fifteen (15) years
- APTERIX: CLR — Ten (10) years
- APTERIX: WPF — Three (3) years
- APTERIX: AQUA — Three (3) years, above the water line only
- APTERIX: SLR — Lifetime, for as long as the Original Owner owns the vehicle in which the Registered Product was originally installed
For complete warranty details Visit: APTERIX WARRANTY PAGE
Warranty
APTERIX warrants to the Original Owner only that, during the applicable Warranty Period, the Registered Product will be free from qualifying manufacturing defects, subject to all terms, conditions, limitations, and exclusions in this Limited Product Warranty.
Applicable Warranty Periods:
- APTERIX: PRO — Fifteen (15) years
- APTERIX: EVO — Fifteen (15) years
- APTERIX: CLR — Ten (10) years
- APTERIX: WPF — Three (3) years
- APTERIX: AQUA — Three (3) years, above the water line only
- APTERIX: SLR — Lifetime, for as long as the Original Owner owns the vehicle in which the Registered Product was originally installed
For complete warranty details Visit: APTERIX WARRANTY PAGE
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to common questions about our dealer program and products.
Still have questions?
What are the requirements to become an APTERIX dealer?
APTERIX dealers are carefully selected, not mass-enrolled. We partner only with established automotive service businesses that demonstrate proven installation expertise, professional facilities, and an uncompromising commitment to quality. Our network is intentionally limited to elite detailers, wrap shops, and specialty automotive centers capable of meeting APTERIX installation and brand standards.
Shops with existing experience installing premium PPF systems—particularly current XPEL or SunTek dealers—are prioritized, as they already understand the technical precision and discipline required at this level. Not every shop qualifies, and that is by design. APTERIX is represented only by installers who can protect the integrity, performance, and reputation of the product.
What are the requirements to become an APTERIX dealer?
APTERIX dealers are carefully selected, not mass-enrolled. We partner only with established automotive service businesses that demonstrate proven installation expertise, professional facilities, and an uncompromising commitment to quality. Our network is intentionally limited to elite detailers, wrap shops, and specialty automotive centers capable of meeting APTERIX installation and brand standards.
Shops with existing experience installing premium PPF systems—particularly current XPEL or SunTek dealers—are prioritized, as they already understand the technical precision and discipline required at this level. Not every shop qualifies, and that is by design. APTERIX is represented only by installers who can protect the integrity, performance, and reputation of the product.
What kind of training and support do you provide?
APTERIX training is built in partnership with The Wrap Institute, the industry’s leading education platform for professional wrap, PPF, and tint installers worldwide. With thousands of certified installers and a reputation for setting the standard in installation best practices, The Wrap Institute brings deep technical credibility and proven curriculum to our program.
Together, we offer APTERIX-specific hands-on installation training, certification pathways, and ongoing product education, ensuring installers are fully equipped to work with our films at the highest level. Dealers also receive direct access to our technical support team, along with marketing materials, co-branded assets, and our dealer portal—packed with resources, documentation, and best practices to help grow and scale their business.
What kind of training and support do you provide?
APTERIX training is built in partnership with The Wrap Institute, the industry’s leading education platform for professional wrap, PPF, and tint installers worldwide. With thousands of certified installers and a reputation for setting the standard in installation best practices, The Wrap Institute brings deep technical credibility and proven curriculum to our program.
Together, we offer APTERIX-specific hands-on installation training, certification pathways, and ongoing product education, ensuring installers are fully equipped to work with our films at the highest level. Dealers also receive direct access to our technical support team, along with marketing materials, co-branded assets, and our dealer portal—packed with resources, documentation, and best practices to help grow and scale their business.
How does APTERIX PPF compare to other brands?
APTERIX is positioned at the absolute top end of the paint protection film market—built for customers and installers who refuse to compromise. While many brands focus on scale, volume, or flashy variety, APTERIX is engineered around one principle: maximum protection, longevity, and consistency across every film we produce.
Compared to XPEL, APTERIX clearly separates itself by prioritizing film performance and long-term ownership over mass distribution and software dependence. XPEL is widely used, but APTERIX goes further—delivering longer warranty coverage on its flagship clear films, tighter quality control, and a more refined product lineup designed for premium installations, not production-line throughput.
Against color-PPF brands like Inozetek and PurePPF, the difference is even more pronounced. Those brands emphasize color variety first; APTERIX starts with protection-grade engineering and then layers color on top. APTERIX:CLR is not vinyl-inspired color film with a protective label—it is true paint protection film that happens to be color-dialed, delivering real impact resistance, optical stability, and durability that lower-tier color PPFs simply do not match.
APTERIX doesn’t try to be everything to everyone. It is deliberately built for the top of the market—luxury vehicles, performance cars, and owners who expect their protection film to perform at the same level as the vehicles it’s installed on. The result is a cohesive, high-end PPF system—clear, matte, and color—that outperforms mass-market and color-only competitors in the areas that actually matter: protection, longevity, and confidence over time.
How does APTERIX PPF compare to other brands?
APTERIX is positioned at the absolute top end of the paint protection film market—built for customers and installers who refuse to compromise. While many brands focus on scale, volume, or flashy variety, APTERIX is engineered around one principle: maximum protection, longevity, and consistency across every film we produce.
Compared to XPEL, APTERIX clearly separates itself by prioritizing film performance and long-term ownership over mass distribution and software dependence. XPEL is widely used, but APTERIX goes further—delivering longer warranty coverage on its flagship clear films, tighter quality control, and a more refined product lineup designed for premium installations, not production-line throughput.
Against color-PPF brands like Inozetek and PurePPF, the difference is even more pronounced. Those brands emphasize color variety first; APTERIX starts with protection-grade engineering and then layers color on top. APTERIX:CLR is not vinyl-inspired color film with a protective label—it is true paint protection film that happens to be color-dialed, delivering real impact resistance, optical stability, and durability that lower-tier color PPFs simply do not match.
APTERIX doesn’t try to be everything to everyone. It is deliberately built for the top of the market—luxury vehicles, performance cars, and owners who expect their protection film to perform at the same level as the vehicles it’s installed on. The result is a cohesive, high-end PPF system—clear, matte, and color—that outperforms mass-market and color-only competitors in the areas that actually matter: protection, longevity, and confidence over time.
What warranty coverage do you offer?
APTERIX offers industry-leading warranty coverage across its entire film ecosystem.
Our gloss and satin/matte PPF lines (including PRO and EVO) are backed by a 15-year warranty, as is APTERIX Color PPF, covering defects such as yellowing, cracking, peeling, and delamination under normal use and proper installation. APTERIX window tint is protected by a lifetime warranty.
What warranty coverage do you offer?
APTERIX offers industry-leading warranty coverage across its entire film ecosystem.
Our gloss and satin/matte PPF lines (including PRO and EVO) are backed by a 15-year warranty, as is APTERIX Color PPF, covering defects such as yellowing, cracking, peeling, and delamination under normal use and proper installation. APTERIX window tint is protected by a lifetime warranty.
What are the minimum order requirements for dealers?
Initial dealer orders vary based on your market and business size. We work with each partner to establish appropriate inventory levels. Our dealer success team will discuss specific requirements during the application process.
What are the minimum order requirements for dealers?
Initial dealer orders vary based on your market and business size. We work with each partner to establish appropriate inventory levels. Our dealer success team will discuss specific requirements during the application process.
Do you offer exclusive territory protection?
Territory assignments are evaluated on a case-by-case basis depending on market density and dealer performance. We prioritize quality partnerships and ensure adequate market coverage while maintaining dealer profitability.
Do you offer exclusive territory protection?
Territory assignments are evaluated on a case-by-case basis depending on market density and dealer performance. We prioritize quality partnerships and ensure adequate market coverage while maintaining dealer profitability.
Awards & Recognition
Industry-leading innovation recognized by professionals worldwide.
2025
US Patent & Trademark
USPTO
2024
Multi-year Manufacturing & Development Contract
2023
$2 million USD invested in US engineering and development
2022
A New PPF Star is Born!
The APTERIX Story Begins!