Looks like they resprayed the chip guard during the repair. Aftermarket spray on chip guards are very hard to get the texture to match original. It often has a more "pebble" texture. You can have them redo it, but it may never be exactly the same. Another option is to have both side resprayed so they match.
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Does anyone have this on their driver side?
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Looks like they resprayed the chip guard during the repair. Aftermarket spray on chip guards are very hard to get the texture to match original. It often has a more "pebble" texture. You can have them redo it, but it may never be exactly the same. Another option is to have both side resprayed so they match.
Well yea. But knowing I have it only on one side bothers me.
This is what it looks zoomed out. Looks like all of your guys photos lol
If any of you guys can. Please take a closer up pic!
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Most of these products are under the base and clear. I think the texture has a lot to do with air pressure in the spray gun, and application technique as well as the actual brand. Sanding it wont make small bumps into large ones, it will flatten the "top" of the bump, and then there are scratches to get rid of.
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calidreamz808
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Yep, on my black m3 its very hard to see and i have to get on my knees to see it. That sounded funny.. but yes, my build is april 2019.
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Its definitely a raised area, but no bumps, seems to be almost as smooth as the rest of the paint
Hope it works out good. Now that they know you are looking there I bet they will make it right
calidreamz808
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I was wrong. I do not have that raised portion, but I remember cleaning that area before and noticing a raised portion for some reason. I believe I was thinking of the plastic piece that starts at the very bottom of the car along to the battery.
SammichLover
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Same here. I can’t take a direct picture because i’ve now got both a wrap & ppf layers over it but there’s still a little lip visible where it ends/begins.
Very weird it is one side but not the other. Since newer vehicles don’t seem to have it I’d guess Tesla engineering decided to cut it and let owners sort there own full ppf out. Rocks still ultimately cut through it, so probably for the best that it is obviously replaceable aftermarket stuff? Tesla likely decided it was providing value vs cost & ditched it to bring manufacturing costs down.
But Tesla being Tesla, there’d be a phase of transition on the live running line and yours happened midstream. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
edit> Oh, this was aftermarket bodywork on this side? Yeah that’s just the shop not matching exactly, it isn’t easy. It is common to have these on cars though, for rock protection. Because of no flaps and the shape of that rocker panel the 3 catch’s a lot of rock down there right in front of the rear wheel well.
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