[Evinrude1975]

Congrats. Beautiful color and terrific combo with the wheels. Great choice

[antzcrashing]

"this is sold right?"

Reading that line made my day.




Chalk is beautiful. Enjoy

[jri_21]

Lucky…lucky…LUCKY!!!
What a BEAUTY and Chalk is such an underrated color.
Enjoy it!!!
🤩🤩🤩🔥🔥🔥

[MichaelB1969]

Wow, lucky you! Timing is everything. Congrats, looks phenomenal.

I’m also in the Bay Area btw!

[KevinM]

Pretty crazy this was sitting on the lot. Congratulations! And MT for the win.

If it makes you feel any better, you didn't "lose" the seatbelt lottery; the M seatbelts only come with the Competition version. The MT is worth it!!

[dezzracer]

Congrats on the good timing. Love chalk. Love the whole car actually. It’s a fantastic well engineered platform. But personally I would not buy one because “does it stimulate me visually” is first thing on my decision list when choosing a car. The G80 just doesn’t do it for me so to quote Kevin O’Leary…. For that reason, I’m out.

[PLF69]

Originally Posted by dezzracer

Congrats on the good timing. Love chalk. Love the whole car actually. It’s a fantastic well engineered platform. But personally I would not buy one because “does it stimulate me visually” is first thing on my decision list when choosing a car. The G80 just doesn’t do it for me so to quote Kevin O’Leary…. For that reason, I’m out.

I agree at some point, chalk would not be one my choices for an individual order but If I would be looking to buy a G80 in a regular color and stumble upon a chalk car sitting in the showroom at a good price I'd be really tempted to take it now and skip the long wait of ordering.

[JJacksonIII]

Seeing these new builds in Chalk or Brooklyn Grey really gets my Dad vibes buzzing. I sit here with my coffee in my hand and shake my head saying, kids these days. Am I right in guessing that it's the millennials that want colorless cars? If so, does that mean when Gen Zers hit their mid thirties we're going to see some obnoxious swing the other way (like the skinny jeans to mom jeans thing), with pastel colors showing up everywhere? Oh wait, that's the new M2 I'm describing. I guess the Gen Zers are starting to come into the market.

[Cl0ud7]

I thought the individual paint program was axed/paused/whatever?

[geko29]

Originally Posted by Cl0ud7

I thought the individual paint program was axed/paused/whatever?

That was a separate program called "Individual Composition". It is a selection of specific custom options that was available on certain models, which never included M3/M4, at least in the US.

Individual paint has and is available, subject to ordering deadlines for MY changeovers--for example, the last day to order a 2023 M4 in an Individual color was back in December (the 9th if I remember right), to guarantee production by February.

But I remember the announcement you're referencing, and my individual paint request was approved by the factory about 2 weeks later.

[T0RM3NT]

Originally Posted by Cl0ud7

I thought the individual paint program was axed/paused/whatever?

Not sure if this link is still valid:

https://visualizer.bmw-individual.co...=en&dc=1-1#top

But if it is...

[jackaleyess]

Wdmixsuxnsxi

[geko29]

Originally Posted by jackaleyess

Wdmixsuxnsxi

I disagree.

[UpstateM3]

I love it, congrats! I’m going to order chalk if I can ever get an allocation for an individual paint.

[PabstBleuRibbon]

first mods, more are in the mail

MPHAS kit, TBD for install, probably get to this in April:



M Perf armrest, for a little interior color:



and ofc a proper plate frame:

[PabstBleuRibbon]

black badge looks right on this color IMO

[Limegrntaln]

Originally Posted by PabstBleuRibbon

black badge looks right on this color IMO

Congrats on the ride, PBR, you better come out to some local get togethers. Don't be depriving us of this stunner!!

I think the black badge definitely fits the color perfectly. The chrome badge is just an easy way to denote that its a manual. Drop me a DM with your insta, if youre interested in our Bay Area G8X Instagram chat. We have about 50 local G8X owners in it.

[skyline408]

Originally Posted by KevinM

Pretty crazy this was sitting on the lot. Congratulations! And MT for the win.

If it makes you feel any better, you didn't "lose" the seatbelt lottery; the M seatbelts only come with the Competition version. The MT is worth it!!

That's actually incorrect, BMW for some reason sprinkled in the M color seat belts on random 6MT cars. No rhyme or reason, some 6MT cars got it, most didn't. I think the current guess was they just happened to run out of regular belts during the build phase.

https://g80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1990098

[KevinM]

Originally Posted by skyline408

That's actually incorrect, BMW for some reason sprinkled in the M color seat belts on random 6MT cars. No rhyme or reason, some 6MT cars got it, most didn't. I think the current guess was they just happened to run out of regular belts during the build phase.

https://g80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1990098

Thanks for the correction - did not know.

[PabstBleuRibbon]

35% tint all around, and even more amazingly, the sun was out:

[PabstBleuRibbon]

had some H&R 12mm spacers laying around that worked so I threw them on:



And then this afternoon's project was a CSL replica grill, very nice quality for the most part and perfect fitment.

Biggest pain was getting the OEM grill out, I ended up busting one of the tabs, I hope I don't ever have to remove this one because those tabs do NOT want to release. The replica grill shipped with a really poor abs badge mount in plain matte black, so I decided to repurpose my OEM badge mount with the black IND M3 badge I had for the front. It took a bit of filing/sanding to get it to fit ok, I'm not 100% happy with it and it's just affixed with some double sided 3m tape for the moment, but it passes the 3ft rule for now.

[G80F90]

Originally Posted by PabstBleuRibbon

In a completely unplanned series of events, I picked up a M3 6MT in individual chalk yesterday, off the lot. Apparently the person that ordered the car had to back out, and it was released the day before. I might have spec'd a more colorful interior, but it has full black leather and is very, very nice inside.

Below are a couple of photos, the color changes character quite a bit depending on sun/angle. I usually prefer the G80 in darker colors, but I thought this one looked amazing. I think if it had been one of the lighter "stock" colors, I would have passed.

Had just picked up my car from service at a different dealer and was running errands in this part of town. I knew they had an IOMG/full kyalami car on the lot, and I wanted to see the interior in person. I walk in and the car in sitting in the showroom.

"this is sold right?"

"nope, just released yesterday"

It went as expected from there. I even won the tire lottery (but lost the m seatbelt version).

It even had a car bow lol:

That is absolutely stunning! Congratulations!