[ZuerstBMW]

Originally Posted by s4iscool

do you have the film? ive done it before and while it's somewhat "invisible" it definetely degrades the gloss of the paint and as you know, without doing the entire hood, the seam line is visible. Now I do understand the benefits and think they work great, if you are willing to live with its negatives. If one continues with your logic, then you should just get the entire car done...whats another few hundred while youre at it. Keep the plastic on your bed matress and sofa too. The install of this film is a PIA, and doing the long E90 hood would be $$$ due to labor IMO.

Just because we can buy a 40k car, doesnt mean we cant make rational decisions. To some, $500 to do just the front bumper and a third of the hood is a big deal. It is to me, and Id rather not do it at that price. Increase the price to do the full hood and it makes the deal less attractive.

Well, I got mine done for 375.00 and if you keep it waxed it doesnt degrade the gloss of the paint at all. It doesnt make sense to compare a sofa to a car. When is the last time you spent 40,000-50,000 on a sofa? But whatever floats your boat.

[vkk]

My dealer mentioned this as an option I can pay for when I pick up my car:

http://www.stongard.com/

What do you guys think about this?

[RichReg]

I found Stongard to be one of the more expensive lines of protective film.

You can get just as good film from Xpel or others for less money.
The real key is to get a good installer @ a reasonable price.

Did your dealer tell you how much?

[vkk]

Thanks for the info. No the dealer mentioned it's something we could discuss at time of redelivery since it would pointless putting it on if I already got a lot of chips on it in Europe.

[s4iscool]

Stongard is great, Ive only used them for headlight and foglight covers, but the stuff was much thicker than the other ones ive used. This might have been the case with their headlight covers only though. I think they are based in your region so they might be a good option

[ducati955]

hmmmm. well another option is to get the hood repanted after like 3-4 yrs? it will cost round 500$ no?

[ICALL]

Originally Posted by bavarian19

I yell at them in hopes of scaring them away...

LOL

I actually found this thread while looking to resolve my waterspot problem before Picus and others helped out (btw, washed again this weekend after 3 coats of klasse SG and now I know what DavidN meant in his sticky about water "sheeting". I've NEVER seen anything like that before. Absolutely awesome. Thanks guys)

Anyway, here's the thread on fixing scratches and chips using dealer paint and PC. Looks relatively easy. I was actually thinking about doing it on the wife's mini, but she's a chip/dent/scratch magnet and I'll only have to do it again on the same spot and others over the next 2 years.

http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32625

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