Gave it a clean this AM, can see some rash, the area around the rear wheel next to that intake takes an absolute beating, so if anyone decides to get into one of these, that and the front bumper/lights are the #1 areas to get PPF'd (fortunately I have PPF on that rear arch). I also have a lekker stone ding on my a pillar, which is not PPF'd "
that and a nice chip in the windscreen.
The paint overall though still looks great, I'm *OBVIOUSLY* immensely bias, but Gentian is by a distance my favourite colour of the non-PTS colours. If I had *much* more money I'd have likely ended up with quite a different spec (a brown interior would have been the dream). But of course I'm not just printing the stuff, sadly!
Nearing the 3yr mark now and I can't see a world where I sell the car in the short term. When it's finished it's multiple extensions of plan (I bought it with 5yrs, and you're allowed to extend to 12), then I might need to think differently, but it's very hard to plan *CARS* a decade ahead. A decade ago I was just joining the forum and starting to ask questions about Z4 3.0Si's (I still actually rate these!), I ended up with a bit of extra cash and a Z4M, and the GT4 feels like a very natural progression, a similarly focused car, but *more* in pretty much every way. With a baby in house and plans to do house projects more over the near future car stuff is taking a back seat for now. With Android auto in the car (my biggest bugbear before getting the carlinkit) I don't foresee any mods. A decent exhaust is a R100k+ job, and if you want to go childish make it more like R250k. There are cool looking intake mods but those also cost ungodly sums (probably like R400k+ landed). So for now I doubt there are any mods on the way. This run was one of the first ones where buckets would have made a material difference in comfort - sadly there's almost no universe where I can justify that money either!
Anyway, safely parked and we await good weather, quieter roads and 2026.
