My G82 M4

[NBN]

Well taking my car as evidence, the car left with the old parts still in and new parts AWOL.

it's not AWOL....it's like BMWSA has learnt from our "Government Tendencies" where they claim money for things that were not delivered or in this case fitted!

 

[Yash2468]

Been a little quiet on here lately, so I thought I’d give an update.

The rally I did at the end of April was absolutely epic and worth every kilometre… but unfortunately, the car paid the price. 😅

A few hundred kilometres of spirited driving on less-than-perfect roads left the front looking like it had gone a few rounds with a sandblaster. Stone chips everywhere, a cracked windscreen, and even the front parking camera took a hit. The last two months have basically been spent sourcing replacement carbon bits, replacing the windscreen, fitting a new front camera, and getting everything back to showroom condition. Let’s just say it wasn’t the cheapest exercise I’ve ever undertaken.

Needless to say, the wife has officially banned me from doing any more rallies… at least for the rest of this year. 😂

The good news is the M Beast is finally back to its former glory, looking as it should. I was also lucky enough to have a proper shoot done recently, and I’m really happy with how it turned out.

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Looking forward to enjoying the car again… perhaps on slightly friendlier roads this time. 😉

 

[Quick///M]

Been a little quiet on here lately, so I thought I’d give an update.

The rally I did at the end of April was absolutely epic and worth every kilometre… but unfortunately, the car paid the price. 😅

A few hundred kilometres of spirited driving on less-than-perfect roads left the front looking like it had gone a few rounds with a sandblaster. Stone chips everywhere, a cracked windscreen, and even the front parking camera took a hit. The last two months have basically been spent sourcing replacement carbon bits, replacing the windscreen, fitting a new front camera, and getting everything back to showroom condition. Let’s just say it wasn’t the cheapest exercise I’ve ever undertaken.

Needless to say, the wife has officially banned me from doing any more rallies… at least for the rest of this year. 😂

The good news is the M Beast is finally back to its former glory, looking as it should. I was also lucky enough to have a proper shoot done recently, and I’m really happy with how it turned out.

Instagram:

View this content on Instagram

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Looking forward to enjoying the car again… perhaps on slightly friendlier roads this time. 😉

Nice one enjoyment always comes at a slight price... But glad you enjoyed driving it... Consider PPF if you have not already, it does help to some extent.

 

[TurboLlew]

Nice one enjoyment always comes at a slight price... But glad you enjoyed driving it... Consider PPF if you have not already, it does help to some extent.

For these runs I've found that the PPF does help but will either also become sandblasted and need replacement OR the rock chips make their way through anyway. You're at such high speeds that there is no way to avoid the bigger hits causing damage. You also can't always PPF the lights. My M lights are PPFed but Porsches have some unobtanium coating that makes it impossible to PPF them.

I am at this crossroads as well now having to redo the PPF on my 4C and I've been looking at what made its way through the protection. Will post a few pics later. Better to have it than not, and it is great in regular traffic until you're on a run with 20 other cars that are also kicking things around at high speeds.

If I look at my M5, the 'serious' chips vs. what made it through the 4C's PPF are probably about the same.

 

[Yash2468]

Nice one enjoyment always comes at a slight price... But glad you enjoyed driving it... Consider PPF if you have not already, it does help to some extent.

Thankfully the car does have PPF. It was just the carbon bits and still kicking myself for not having it over the front park camera. Needless to say all the new bits have had PPF applied.

 

[Quick///M]

For these runs I've found that the PPF does help but will either also become sandblasted and need replacement OR the rock chips make their way through anyway. You're at such high speeds that there is no way to avoid the bigger hits causing damage. You also can't always PPF the lights. My M lights are PPFed but Porsches have some unobtanium coating that makes it impossible to PPF them.

I am at this crossroads as well now having to redo the PPF on my 4C and I've been looking at what made its way through the protection. Will post a few pics later. Better to have it than not, and it is great in regular traffic until you're on a run with 20 other cars that are also kicking things around at high speeds.

If I look at my M5, the 'serious' chips vs. what made it through the 4C's PPF are probably about the same.

The tough ones will get but through trust me but its still worth it to get PPF, there are also to many clueless drivers around especially in parking zones. My brother had a trolley ram/side swipe his fender (it rolled towards the car) thanks to PPF for taking most of the damage, when they pulled it off the paint was perfect, I just hate paint jobs trying to match does not always work out, then there is the whole story of taking it to ARC in the case where its not a simple touch up.

As for stone chips depends those are inevitable but it will take longer on car with PPF in regular driving vs 1 with out PPF. I cringed after 20 000km on my m340i because I did not do PPF.

 

[Yash2468]

For these runs I've found that the PPF does help but will either also become sandblasted and need replacement OR the rock chips make their way through anyway. You're at such high speeds that there is no way to avoid the bigger hits causing damage. You also can't always PPF the lights. My M lights are PPFed but Porsches have some unobtanium coating that makes it impossible to PPF them.

I am at this crossroads as well now having to redo the PPF on my 4C and I've been looking at what made its way through the protection. Will post a few pics later. Better to have it than not, and it is great in regular traffic until you're on a run with 20 other cars that are also kicking things around at high speeds.

If I look at my M5, the 'serious' chips vs. what made it through the 4C's PPF are probably about the same.

Totally agree here. While the PPF did its job. I still need to redo the bumper as you can see it is not looking that great anymore and for good measure might just redo the bonnet. The headlights also have PPF but the one side needs to be applied again 🤦‍♂️