Rockers look sandblasted

[SabrToothSqrl]

This is not the reflection of the ground. With only 3000 miles my car looks like it's been through war...

anyone else having this issue? lots of missing paint. I haven't engaged in any rally sport... or off roading... ever with this car!

I was thinking I'd try to buff it at least smoother then plasti dip this area...

I wanted to clear bra it, but it was 10 degrees outside when I bought the car. Most cars have a 90 degree angle here for good reason. My S was a 90 at the bottom, and had black plastic here... The 3 has zero protection from the road...

 

[flashflooder]

I've got some damage in that area on my car, too. One of the many reasons i'm glad I chose white... this kind of stuff doesn't show up as readily.

 

[Atari2600]

Glad I had XPEL added on the rockers. It was a last minute add-on as well.

 

[voip-ninja]

This is not the reflection of the ground. With only 3000 miles my car looks like it's been through war...

anyone else having this issue? lots of missing paint. I haven't engaged in any rally sport... or off roading... ever with this car!

I was thinking I'd try to buff it at least smoother then plasti dip this area...

I wanted to clear bra it, but it was 10 degrees outside when I bought the car. Most cars have a 90 degree angle here for good reason. My S was a 90 at the bottom, and had black plastic here... The 3 has zero protection from the road...

Yeah, most cars have features like mini mud flaps hidden under the rockers to minimize that kind of thing.

You could try a very light polish on that with a random orbital followed by application of Dr. Color Chip... then after it's dried you could ceramic or PPF it.

 

[MP3Mike]

@SabrToothSqrl What does it look like if you wash the muck off of that area?

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

Maybe these pics will be bigger.
I usually msg myself pics so I can upload from my PC.

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

Driver side.

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

But you aren't wrong I guess, in appearance it just looks like the car is 'dirty' in that area... but it's not. and I work hard to keep it nice... so this is rather frustrating.

 

[voip-ninja]

But you aren't wrong I guess, in appearance it just looks like the car is 'dirty' in that area... but it's not. and I work hard to keep it nice... so this is rather frustrating.

Dr. Color Chip is made for this kind of thing. Black is easy to match.

The only other option really would be to pay a body shop to re-spray it.

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

i checked the website, is that dr. color chip thing legit? does it work well?

 

[wdskuk]

I'm going to buy a kit from Dr. Color Chip as people that have used it says it works pretty well. I'm trying to find out where I can get mudguards for this car. And actually have them in stock.

 

[voip-ninja]

i checked the website, is that dr. color chip thing legit? does it work well?

Dr. Color chip has very solid reviews in the BMW enthusiast community. Before PPF was a thing it was pretty typical for people to use this to touch up rock chips from the front end of their cars after track days.

I can't personally recommend it as I've never needed it for my cars but I have friends who have used it and the results are quite good.

 

[03DSG]

Maybe have the rockers resprayed and the then cover them after a month with PPF. The risk comes later when you remove the PPF. I currently have full frontal PPF and am going to get a quote for both rockers. Its that or putting the California edition of these on. If I get these I'll only put them on the front:

Garde-Boues Tesla Model 3 (California Edition) *** En production, prévoir 4-5 semaines d'attente *** - Antirouille Bolduc

Quebec so translate.

 

[Glamisduner]

That is crazy with only 3k miles on it. Paint defect?

 

[tracksyde]

Isnt the lower half of that rocker panel covered in some kind of PPF from the factory?

Rocker Panels built-in "PPF"

Although from the pics it looks like it may extend above that "line"

 

[jkoya]

Wow - looks like it was hit with a sandblaster.....I've used Dr. Colorchip in the past quite successfully, although not for an area that big with so much road rash. I guess thats why Dr. Colorchip has a squeegee application tool.

 

[wokuku]

My rocker panels also look like they got sandblasted. The factory ppf doesn’t help much as they are way too low. Are there any pre-made ppf just to cover the rocker section?

 

[EV-lutioin]

Same thing happened to my Model X, so both my cars are wrapped with XPEL now.

 

[Lucky13]

I wonder if we could make a black vinyl patch look good like the old porsche turbos used to have.I am going to find an image brb

 

[Lucky13]

Something like this might look decent if done properly or maybe not...lol can't make top my mind. Anybody here think the can do a rendering on this.