Why You Should NEVER, EVER Wipe Dust Off Your Paint!

[Phillies8008]

Originally Posted by dcstep

Wow! How 'bout just driving the friggin' cars...!!!

Driving the car and not unnecessarily scratching it are not mutually exclusive.

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by Phillies8008

Driving the car and not unnecessarily scratching it are not mutually exclusive.

OCD is an illness, particularly when directed toward objects that are exposed to rain, snow and even DUST, heaven forbid...

Be reasonable, but put miles on. It's a CAR.

[tracer bullet]

Originally Posted by dcstep

Be reasonable, but put miles on. It's a CAR.

You're completely missing the point. We all know it's a car, and agree to drive them. The point being made is not to not drive it. The point is to not randomly scratch the crap out of the paint when you finally wash the thing, to not recklessly make it look like crap by how you care for it between drives.

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by tracer bullet

You're completely missing the point. We all know it's a car, and agree to drive them. The point being made is not to not drive it. The point is to not randomly scratch the crap out of the paint when you finally wash the thing, to not recklessly make it look like crap by how you care for it between drives.

Focus on things that matter.

[Phillies8008]

Originally Posted by dcstep

Focus on things that matter.

Spoiler: things that matter to you may not matter to others, and vice-versa. The world does not end at the tip of your nose.

Drag gravel across your hood if you want to – I don't particularly give a shit. But some people don't like their paint to get scratched. Crazy, I know. If you think that's silly, fine – again, I don't give a shit. But maybe STFU about it and move on?

[dcstep]

Wow! I guess I shouldn't be surprised when someone's panties get too tight in their crack.

[Phillies8008]

Originally Posted by dcstep

Wow! I guess I shouldn't be surprised when someone's panties get too tight in their crack.

Hilarious. Post condescending nonsense, act surprised when someone calls you on it. Classic Internet – five points!

[vansonrider]

I once dated a woman who thought she was being proactive with my 2018 M550. The car had been driven around for a week or two and was a little dirty. I was out of town and it rained. She pulled my car in the garage and thought it should be dried off since it was in the garage. She dried my wet car off that had two weeks of road grime on it. I know she was trying to be nice but WTF. She thought putting it in the garage wet was bad for it. I can't imagine how many scratches she put in my car.

[Yuille36]

The good thing is that you paint correct it, although it isn’t cheap but it is a solution to scratches.

[Phillies8008]

Originally Posted by vansonrider

I once dated a woman who thought she was being proactive with my 2018 M550. The car had been driven around for a week or two and was a little dirty. I was out of town and it rained. She pulled my car in the garage and thought it should be dried off since it was in the garage. She dried my wet car off that had two weeks of road grime on it. I know she was trying to be nice but WTF. She thought putting it in the garage wet was bad for it. I can't imagine how many scratches she put in my car.

lol, that's one of those "your heart was in the right place, but I want to kill you" moments. I guess maybe she thought that she was avoiding water spots? At least she was thinking about it at all – that's more than I can get my wife to do.

True story: I had just gotten my i4, like maybe a month in, and I walk out into the garage to find my wife spray painting something approximately four feet away from the car. You know, with paint that's by it's very nature aerosolized, floating through the air. I nearly had a freaking aneurysm.

Thankfully nothing got on the car, so I'm not posting this from prison.

[Westside Guy]

Originally Posted by Phillies8008

lol, that's one of those "your heart was in the right place, but I want to kill you" moments. I guess maybe she thought that she was avoiding water spots? At least she was thinking about it at all – that's more than I can get my wife to do.

True story: I had just gotten my i4, like maybe a month in, and I walk out into the garage to find my wife spray painting something approximately four feet away from the car. You know, with paint that's by it's very nature aerosolized, floating through the air. I nearly had a freaking aneurysm.

Thankfully nothing got on the car, so I'm not posting this from prison.

Something similar happened to a friend of mine who was having his garage door spray painted and the contractor started before he had a chance to pull his black 911 Targa 4 GTS out of harms way. He wasn't as lucky as you and it cost him a fortune to repair.

[Westside Guy]

Originally Posted by vansonrider

I once dated a woman who thought she was being proactive with my 2018 M550. The car had been driven around for a week or two and was a little dirty. I was out of town and it rained. She pulled my car in the garage and thought it should be dried off since it was in the garage. She dried my wet car off that had two weeks of road grime on it. I know she was trying to be nice but WTF. She thought putting it in the garage wet was bad for it. I can't imagine how many scratches she put in my car.

How was she when you showered together?

[vansonrider]

Originally Posted by Phillies8008

lol, that's one of those "your heart was in the right place, but I want to kill you" moments. I guess maybe she thought that she was avoiding water spots? At least she was thinking about it at all – that's more than I can get my wife to do.

True story: I had just gotten my i4, like maybe a month in, and I walk out into the garage to find my wife spray painting something approximately four feet away from the car. You know, with paint that's by it's very nature aerosolized, floating through the air. I nearly had a freaking aneurysm.

Thankfully nothing got on the car, so I'm not posting this from prison.

. That's crazy. Good thing you didn't get overspray.

[vansonrider]

Originally Posted by Westside Guy

How was she when you showered together?

. Well that's a different story.

[vansonrider]

Originally Posted by Westside Guy

Something similar happened to a friend of mine who was having his garage door spray painted and the contractor started before he had a chance to pull his black 911 Targa 4 GTS out of harms way. He wasn't as lucky as you and it cost him a fortune to repair.

. Ouch, that hurts.

[BigMike666]

Remembered a fella who'd big markers to write over any scratches on this starlet gt back in the day

[Equilibrandt]

Side note about waterless washes:

I've been using Adam's CS3 waterless wash on my '25 M340i. It works phenomenally on top of the Adam's Graphene ceramic coat I did; the CS3 supposedly has a lower concentration of the ceramic coat to "recharge" the coating. While I don't necessarily believe the effectiveness of that, the CS3 does a great job of not leaving swirls on a semi-dusty car. Probably only because the car's ceramic coated, not because the CS3 does a perfect "encapsulation" job.

A friend did dry-wipe a spot on my hood at a gas station, but the swirl really only touched the ceramic, apparently. Came out with a quick touch up with the Graphene.