What did you do to your M3/M4 today?

TrentMeister · 06-17-2021, 12:08 AM

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Got my first rock chip! 80 miles in, staying away from everything on the road, max speed of like mph and I noticed it as soon as I got off the phone w/ the PPF/Ceramic place. Loud cursing followed.

So, I then ordered up some Dr. ColorChip.

Sorry to hear. Rock chips that appear shortly after purchase are scathing.

For the anti-grille crew….

….here's number 10 today.

I have seen 4 G8X's too.

Have you seen 4?

I haven't seen any rollin yet.

Four today. On average I see two a day.

Wow that's crazy, where are you located?

Sedan_Clan · 06-17-2021, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by LBbluem2

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Originally Posted by LBbluem2

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Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

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Originally Posted by mattssi

Got my first rock chip! 80 miles in, staying away from everything on the road, max speed of like mph and I noticed it as soon as I got off the phone w/ the PPF/Ceramic place. Loud cursing followed.

So, I then ordered up some Dr. ColorChip.

Sorry to hear. Rock chips that appear shortly after purchase are scathing.

For the anti-grille crew….

….here's number 10 today.

I have seen 4 G8X's too.

Have you seen 4?

I haven't seen any rollin yet.

Four today. On average I see two a day.

Wow that's crazy, where are you located?

SoCal. I work in the greater L.A. area.

jonahk · 06-17-2021, 01:11 AM

I unboxed my IND painted front reflectors, sent my PPF guy a deposit, and started a timer to count down the minutes until the 23rd when my car gets to the dealership.

barryc365 · 06-17-2021, 05:06 AM

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Fitted a Uniden R7 via mirror tap. Pretty clean and out of sight and no wires coming down to the cigarette lighter which is nice. It was pretty easy to do

Also booked the car in for PPF, Ceramic and Tints. I wasn't going to go all out with PPF but given the labor involved in polishing for ceramic it really became more cost efficient to do both and I Got a great package deal doing everything at once.

what type of PPF are you doing? full car? what's it going to cost? I'm planning on going SunTek or maybe something else. I've had both XPEL and SunTek and I felt like SunTek was a bit better overall

Just the Full Front end XPEL PPF including the grills, mirrors and side rocker panels, rear luggage loading area etc, 50% ceramic tints all around, Opti ceramic coating all over including the wheels. $3k all in. He's doing a paint correction before doing the work

A lot of places were giving me a base quote of $2200 for front end PPF and then jacking up the price when they said 'if it needs a correction it'll be another $800' so I feel like I'm getting tints and ceramic thrown in at a decent price

TrentMeister · 06-17-2021, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by barryc365

Fitted a Uniden R7 via mirror tap. Pretty clean and out of sight and no wires coming down to the cigarette lighter which is nice. It was pretty easy to do

Also booked the car in for PPF, Ceramic and Tints. I wasn't going to go all out with PPF but given the labor involved in polishing for ceramic it really became more cost efficient to do both and I Got a great package deal doing everything at once.

what type of PPF are you doing? full car? what's it going to cost? I'm planning on going SunTek or maybe something else. I've had both XPEL and SunTek and I felt like SunTek was a bit better overall

Just the Full Front end XPEL PPF including the grills, mirrors and side rocker panels, rear luggage loading area etc, 50% ceramic tints all around, Opti ceramic coating all over including the wheels. $3k all in. He's doing a paint correction before doing the work

A lot of places were giving me a base quote of $2200 for front end PPF and then jacking up the price when they said 'if it needs a correction it'll be another $800' so I feel like I'm getting tints and ceramic thrown in at a decent price

Yeah that dude undervalued himself pretty drastically.

Definitely won't be in business long giving everything away like that.

barryc365 · 06-17-2021, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by barryc365

Fitted a Uniden R7 via mirror tap. Pretty clean and out of sight and no wires coming down to the cigarette lighter which is nice. It was pretty easy to do

Also booked the car in for PPF, Ceramic and Tints. I wasn't going to go all out with PPF but given the labor involved in polishing for ceramic it really became more cost efficient to do both and I Got a great package deal doing everything at once.

what type of PPF are you doing? full car? what's it going to cost? I'm planning on going SunTek or maybe something else. I've had both XPEL and SunTek and I felt like SunTek was a bit better overall

Just the Full Front end XPEL PPF including the grills, mirrors and side rocker panels, rear luggage loading area etc, 50% ceramic tints all around, Opti ceramic coating all over including the wheels. $3k all in. He's doing a paint correction before doing the work

A lot of places were giving me a base quote of $2200 for front end PPF and then jacking up the price when they said 'if it needs a correction it'll be another $800' so I feel like I'm getting tints and ceramic thrown in at a decent price

Yeah that dude undervalued himself pretty drastically.

Definitely won't be in business long giving everything away like that.

I dunno about that. He's a one man show so limited over head. Most of the cost is labor, materials are not that expensive. Pretty nice money for a few days of work. I think it's a fair price. Some other places that charge more probably are just paying away the excess on additional staff and over head

TrentMeister · 06-17-2021, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by barryc365

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Originally Posted by LBbluem2

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Originally Posted by barryc365

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Originally Posted by AndroidRobot

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Originally Posted by barryc365

Fitted a Uniden R7 via mirror tap. Pretty clean and out of sight and no wires coming down to the cigarette lighter which is nice. It was pretty easy to do

Also booked the car in for PPF, Ceramic and Tints. I wasn't going to go all out with PPF but given the labor involved in polishing for ceramic it really became more cost efficient to do both and I Got a great package deal doing everything at once.

what type of PPF are you doing? full car? what's it going to cost? I'm planning on going SunTek or maybe something else. I've had both XPEL and SunTek and I felt like SunTek was a bit better overall

Just the Full Front end XPEL PPF including the grills, mirrors and side rocker panels, rear luggage loading area etc, 50% ceramic tints all around, Opti ceramic coating all over including the wheels. $3k all in. He's doing a paint correction before doing the work

A lot of places were giving me a base quote of $2200 for front end PPF and then jacking up the price when they said 'if it needs a correction it'll be another $800' so I feel like I'm getting tints and ceramic thrown in at a decent price

Yeah that dude undervalued himself pretty drastically.

Definitely won't be in business long giving everything away like that.

I dunno about that. He's a one man show so limited over head. Most of the cost is labor, materials are not that expensive. Pretty nice money for a few days of work. I think it's a fair price. Some other places that charge more probably are just paying away the excess on additional staff and over head

Maybe you're right.

I'm not in that business, what do I really know.

Ximian · 06-17-2021, 11:31 AM

Got some better pictures of the car.

G80BSM · 06-17-2021, 02:07 PM

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Four today. On average I see two a day.

I haven’t seen any other G80 on the road yet but saw an M4 a couple of weeks ago.

calibro9 · 06-17-2021, 05:05 PM

Tinted it. 30% all around 70% windshield. Detailed too

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G80BSM · 06-17-2021, 09:12 PM

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Tinted it. 30% all around 70% windshield. Detailed too

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Can you post some close up pictures of the windscreen. I’m thinking of doing the same.

BrooklynGreyM3 · 06-18-2021, 02:38 PM

Got my BMW mperformance front spoiler/lip installed today. I love the look of the front even better.

Der_Wolf · 06-18-2021, 02:45 PM

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Got my BMW mperformance front spoiler/lip installed today. I love the look of the front even better.

geil!

BrooklynGreyM3 · 06-18-2021, 03:26 PM

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geil!

Danke schön!

vetteflier · 06-18-2021, 03:57 PM

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I haven’t seen any other G80 on the road yet but saw an M4 a couple of weeks ago.

Haven't seen any around here, and have only seen--from a distance, 1 C8 Corvette. Did see a McLaren 670 at Walmart, of all places. And there are 2 Ferraris around here, 430 and 360 Stradale. Tons of Porsches, but have only seen 2 Boxster Spyders, no GT4 Cayman. One Spyder was purple--a color I generally dislike, but it was gorgeous. Paint by sample, obviously. The NA 4 liter sounds great. The turbo 4s sound like crap.

MarineRaider · 06-18-2021, 06:35 PM

Little something for the couch seats....

Der_Wolf · 06-19-2021, 07:34 PM

Did my break-in service today. I feel like I bought a new car haha. It feels so great taking the car to redline

G80BSM · 06-19-2021, 09:55 PM

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Did my break-in service today. I feel like I bought a new car haha. It feels so great taking the car to redline

Nice! Did mine yesterday and used launch control right away. The initial bite/push is no where as crazy as my 2018 S63 but after 20-30km’s it really moves!

G80BSM · 06-19-2021, 10:00 PM

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Haven't seen any around here, and have only seen--from a distance, 1 C8 Corvette. Did see a McLaren 670 at Walmart, of all places. And there are 2 Ferraris around here, 430 and 360 Stradale. Tons of Porsches, but have only seen 2 Boxster Spyders, no GT4 Cayman. One Spyder was purple--a color I generally dislike, but it was gorgeous. Paint by sample, obviously. The NA 4 liter sounds great. The turbo 4s sound like crap.

I see tons of GT4’s and GT3’s here. It’s the M’s that are not that common for some reason. I had my M2C for almost 2 and a half years and saw maybe 10 others during time (minus the M2 that we had).
I was really contemplating getting the new inline 6 Cayman GTS but even the bare bones PDK was reaching 110K CAD so I passed for now.

bimmermann88 · 06-20-2021, 06:56 AM

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Res delete, x pipe, and valves fixed open.

Recorded on potato

Any CEL with the x pipe and did you do both resonators? How much did It cost you?

MKParris · 06-20-2021, 07:46 AM

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Little something for the couch seats....

Can you post a vertical pic of the whole seatback.

MarineRaider · 06-20-2021, 08:42 AM

Here you go.

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