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I just didn't think the new paint is so fragile that a few hundred miles would have already damaged the paint.
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Glasurit makes all their aftermarket paint (repair paint) for BMW approved repair centres worldwide. ( Standox/Spies Hecker are approved, but not the official line) Standox (currently a Dupont company) makes paint for many of their factories. The South African 3 Series factory (70% of which cars go to the USA) gets its waterbased paint from the local Dupont joint venture using Standox Technology (Same factory makes the factory paint for the local Mercedes C Class factory ) Standox made all the paint for the BMW F1 team Remember there is a large difference between factory paint and aftermarket paint repair shops use. Glasurit = BASF Standox/Spies Hecker = Dupont
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you have a white m3 and you notice all the chips? please guy, it's not bad on light colored cars. It is more noticeable on black etc. If you dont like chips, stay your ass off the highway, very simple. Or drive 30mph. The paint will last, you guys are over-reacting, take care of it. How often do you guys see cases of OE clearcoat peeling, delaminating etc.? jeez. |
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I could replace my front bumper and hood maybe even rear bumper with NEW ones for less than 5k. A local (BMW) shop is offering respray for $400 of the front bumper... Check this out...(aka come back to reality) http://www.bmwoffairfax.com/specials/bodyshop.htm |
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08-25-2011, 01:29 PM | #29 |
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Anyone test the paint on a 2008 car? Just wondering if this is only on the newer cars?
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Let me get this straight... You are swapping out parts designed by some of the top engineers in the world because some guys sponsored by a company told you it's "better??" But when you ask the same guy about tracking, "oh no, I have a kid now" or "I just detailed my car." or "i just got new tires."
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So, I am guessing then you must be familiar with Pathways and Ultramate right?
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And 400 bucks to respray the nose is a subpar job, period, end of story. Or perhaps you would like to share with us how much time you have with Ultramte or Pathways, or that 99.9999% of the shops out there can't match paints and have to blend. But please, do tell.
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The irony of someone commenting on another person having too much free time seemed to have escaped you.
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You know what's funny about car forums? People who have no idea about certain topic spouting off like they know something about it. A proper respray in a shop that can properly match color without blending adjacent panel is incredibly expensive. Why? Because if you re-use the current panels, there is no way to strip the paint without also stripping the ecoat, which is not to be confused with the primer. So, you start out with an imperfectly cleansed piece of metal, and you wonder how well the end result is going to look like. Did I mention that most shops don't even positively and negatively charge the paint and the panel for better adhesion like they do in the factory? Or that even a really good painter can't do factory thickness, so in this day of cheap and widely available paint meters, people are going to right away classify your car as a story car the second the paint meter hits the painted surface of your car. And then, you have to break the paint on all the bolted parts on the hood, the fenders, which would mean that somehow you have to find someone good enough to redo that so you don't have obviously worked on bolted right under your hood or in the door hinge well. As far as bumper resprays go, that's even worse. Most shops just sand down the existing paint a little, then paint it over with questionable flex additive mixture. And those little nicks and scratches? Oh, the bad ones get epoxied then sanded down, and what happens when someone lightly tapped you? Oh that's right, the whole epoxied area will crease up. Properly refinish plastic bumpers is a big job, which is why most good shops don't bother refinishing the plastic bumpers, but get new ones. So, all this intensive labor process adds up very quickly, especially when you are talking about removing a whole lot of panels and clean and process it as best as non factory can. And in the end, your car is still a story car with respray that many people will simply pass over.
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You obviously aren't close to the geniuses at IND (who are the best and I'm sure aren't 5k).
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So the way I see it you can:
1. Build a shrine to your M, encase it in a plastic box, walk around and gaze at it in awe 2. Drive it, accept that driving and enjoying your M will cause some "damage" By the way, my May 09 delivery M3 has 5400 miles on it, so it's not like I don't "care" about my car. Ask my wife...she thinks I'm "overly protective"...whatever that means. C'mon, BMW doesn't build a perfect car, but it does build a fun to drive car. Relax |
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I have been chip free since E46 M3.
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Define "best."
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I am there too, just have to find the time to take the car in. Didn't think the paint couldn't even handle 200 miles.
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how do you do this portion on the front bumper?
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Bumpers are painted separately. That is also why you can order color coded bumper from BMW, no painting required.
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