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Originally Posted by Matticus91
Cheers man thanks! $700ish is about what I expected to hear for the paint correction. I'd probably source that and then do the coating myself. It's actually not a bad process, I have a ceramic coating on now that I did with a friend, it took us maybe an hour to do the whole car together. I really need to have it professionally corrected though because there's still swirls and some deeper scratches under the coating. I'd like to wait till I paint my CF hood though, so it can all be done at once.
I can definitely attest to the ceramic coatings though; I used CQuartz UK, a single coat, and the difference is dramatic. I often (at least monthly) do 400+ mile road trips and the car was holding up great for the first few months. Once it started getting nasty I just hosed it off with the foam gun and pressure washer and it looks fantastic. I highly recommend avoiding touching it when you can, touchless washes will do more than you expect and keep the coating at top condition for longer.
When it does come time to do a real wash, do a proper two-bucket wash and makes sure you only wash in straight lines. This will prevent you from ever getting swirls again. The fact of the matter is you can't completely avoid scratches from washing, if there's contact with the paint and movement, there will be scratches at some point. Moving in a straight line only guarantees that any scratches will be straight lines as well, which will only show up from very specific angles. Swirls are so obvious because the scratches are circular and have way more reflective angles to catch your eye and piss you off after all your hard work lol.
Your car looks FANTASTIC man. I'm in to see how long before you go FBO with e85 lol
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Thanks Matt!
The car already has a couple things that make it quick. I dont see myself doing E85
but I also said it was staying stock when I bought it.
I want to do a couple more things to the M2 so for now I am holding off on more mods to the 135!