[Ezra168]

Originally Posted by CJ421

I've been told to do the 2-day school at their Thermal, CA location since it's a better facility. I may start a thread here when I go to get a group going.
BTW, I think the 2-day M school is about $4,000. I got it for $3,300 when BMW was running a sale.

Seriously, the $ spent on this car ...I've been driving BMW's for 13 years. The M car is absolutely the ///Most expensive. I've spent about $5,200 over the car's purchase price to get PPF and all the little things (oil cooler guard, floor mats, alignment, mud flaps, detailing supplies).

My joke is when you see someone that has an M, you might be tempted to think they have money ...truth is, they HAD money.

Charles

For real…. 🤣
How did you catch the sale? If you see it again let me know!

[GolfCoyote]

Originally Posted by Ezra168

For real…. 🤣
How did you catch the sale? If you see it again let me know!

I just saw on the BMW app the other day they were advertising a BOGO deal for track days

[CJ421]

Originally Posted by Ezra168

For real…. 🤣
How did you catch the sale? If you see it again let me know!

I bought mine when I did the 1-day M school. They had 20% off if you bought another one right then. I couldn't just walk out like someone financially responsible ... (And then I went home and ordered an M3. )

But the sales seem to be frequent enough ...keep an eye on BMW's site. The voucher you buy is good indefinitely, you can schedule the class at your leisure.

Charles

[Ezra168]

Originally Posted by CJ421

I bought mine when I did the 1-day M school. They had 20% off if you bought another one right then. I couldn't just walk out like someone financially responsible ... (And then I went home and ordered an M3. )

But the sales seem to be frequent enough ...keep an eye on BMW's site. The voucher you buy is good indefinitely, you can schedule the class at your leisure.

Charles

🤣 I would have done the same

[GolfCoyote]

I’m an idiot and totally screwed my paint up in a couple spots using an orbital buffer today. I think the edge of it hit the paint, I didn’t realize until after I was buffing everything out. Pretty disappointed.

[jbirb305]

why were you buffing a brand new car

[GolfCoyote]

Originally Posted by jbirb305

why were you buffing a brand new car

Just because it’s brand new doesn’t mean the paint is perfect. The cars sit in shipping yards for weeks at a time and are shipped across the world over a 2 month period. Plus dealerships are notorious for doing mediocre detailing.

I washed, clayed, and polished the car in preparation for PPF and ceramic this week.

[Ezra168]

Originally Posted by GolfCoyote

I’m an idiot and totally screwed my paint up in a couple spots using an orbital buffer today. I think the edge of it hit the paint, I didn’t realize until after I was buffing everything out. Pretty disappointed.

Well you know I can commiserate with my scratched frozen paint 😂

[GolfCoyote]

Originally Posted by Ezra168

Well you know I can commiserate with my scratched frozen paint 😂

Ugh I know man.
I think I’m going to reschedule my PPF and try to fix it with some touch up paint so it will at least be slightly less noticeable.

[GolfCoyote]

Well I may have messed my paint up in a few spots, but atleast I made the car look better overall (in my opinion)

[Limegrntaln]

Originally Posted by GolfCoyote

I’m an idiot and totally screwed my paint up in a couple spots using an orbital buffer today. I think the edge of it hit the paint, I didn’t realize until after I was buffing everything out. Pretty disappointed.

What the hell kind of Orbital did you use? Holy hell, and worse, you munched the paint, and kept going.

[CJ421]

GolfCoyote I think it's worth getting a quote from a body shop on touching that up before you do PPF ...my experience with touch-up paint is that it's kinda hard to do right.

Charles

[GolfCoyote]

Originally Posted by CJ421

GolfCoyote I think it's worth getting a quote from a body shop on touching that up before you do PPF ...my experience with touch-up paint is that it's kinda hard to do right.

Charles

The spots near the side skirt have already been repaired with touch up paint, it’s like 90% fixed on those spots.

I’m dropping the car off at the PPF shop today and they are going to take a look at the spot near the front emblem and see what they can do. We’ll see what happens.

[CJ421]

The shop where I got PPF up some amazing pics of my car: https://g80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...&postcount=245

Charles

[Ezra168]

Originally Posted by CJ421

The shop where I got PPF up some amazing pics of my car: https://g80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...&postcount=245

Charles

Beautiful! Love it!



Also…….was driving home from work this morning, I happened to ask the car to take me home (which I don’t usually do being as I know the way), and it told me “I hope you have a ‘fun’ drive home.” Is that its way of learning that I love to drive it ever so slightly above the posted speed limit on the way home from work? 🤣

[GolfCoyote]

While I still feel dumb about damaging my paint I feel a little less dumb after talking to the PPF shop. They were saying that these newer cars all use water based paints and its super easy to burn through it with an orbital. Expensive lesson to learn, but now I know. I'll only be polishing and waxing this car by hand from now on.

I pick it up from PPF/tint tomorrow. Barely had a chance to drive it since I was installing all those parts last weekend and its been in the shop most of this week. Only 308 miles on it, and thats after a 2025 mile drive from the dealership lol

[Ezra168]

Originally Posted by GolfCoyote

While I still feel dumb about damaging my paint I feel a little less dumb after talking to the PPF shop. They were saying that these newer cars all use water based paints and its super easy to burn through it with an orbital. Expensive lesson to learn, but now I know. I'll only be polishing and waxing this car by hand from now on.

I pick it up from PPF/tint tomorrow. Barely had a chance to drive it since I was installing all those parts last weekend and its been in the shop most of this week. Only 308 miles on it, and thats after a 2025 mile drive from the dealership lol

Did I miss something? That math doesn’t add up? 😂

[GolfCoyote]

Originally Posted by Ezra168

Did I miss something? That math doesn’t add up? 😂

lol stupid phone auto corrected the miles to a year I think. I meant 225 mile drive from the dealer.

[GolfCoyote]

Back from PPF and tint, looking good!

[Ezra168]

Originally Posted by GolfCoyote

Back from PPF and tint, looking good!

Looks great bro!!!

Where they able to help fix your scratch?

[GolfCoyote]

Originally Posted by Ezra168

Looks great bro!!!

Where they able to help fix your scratch?

No unfortunately not. I’ll just get it properly repaired down the road, later this year maybe.

[Straykiwi]

The RORO vessel has finally arrived at Auckland NZ, she's at anchor at the mouth of the shipping channel awaiting the arrival of a pilot to guide her in. According to the tracking page it's due to dock in about 10 hours time. Then apparently the real waiting begins!

UPDATE: Dealer phoned me, the car should be ready for collection in about 3 weeks as long as it wasn't seriously damaged in transit. I've waited this long, another 3 weeks is nothing.