Having set about the 2 days of cleaning the car the last time it was nice out, one thing that stood out was how bad the wheel arches are from stone chipping. Really letting the car down after all that work.
While I have added mudguards since, I thought I would have a go at tidying up the rash using a Chipex kit.
What we are starting with - for info it's a 2019 M3P with around 39K miles on the clock.
This is the bare truth - washed, has been clayed, dried and wiped down with Bilt Hamber cleanser fluid to start the job:
Applied the Chipex paint using the included microfibre cloth - which starts to make it look messy, but making it look worse using my detailing light here:
Left to dry for a good 10 to 15 minutes while I did some other paint chips on the front end of the car.
Wiped with their paint levelling solution:
Finished up with a hand polish (which was included in the kit - though it felt more like a filler polish that cutting as very little if any cutting action) and then a coat of Gyeon wax:
All in all, better with one pass, perfect - far from it. At certain angles they still catch the light and doesn't look much better than when I started. May give it another pass over when I have some time as I didn't do the other side yet anyway.
On the stone chips on the front end though, was largely a waste of time. You have to build up in layers allowing it to dry and it pretty much just pulled back out of the chips with one pass of the levelling/blending solution with minimal pressure.
While I have added mudguards since, I thought I would have a go at tidying up the rash using a Chipex kit.
What we are starting with - for info it's a 2019 M3P with around 39K miles on the clock.
This is the bare truth - washed, has been clayed, dried and wiped down with Bilt Hamber cleanser fluid to start the job:
Applied the Chipex paint using the included microfibre cloth - which starts to make it look messy, but making it look worse using my detailing light here:
Left to dry for a good 10 to 15 minutes while I did some other paint chips on the front end of the car.
Wiped with their paint levelling solution:
Finished up with a hand polish (which was included in the kit - though it felt more like a filler polish that cutting as very little if any cutting action) and then a coat of Gyeon wax:
All in all, better with one pass, perfect - far from it. At certain angles they still catch the light and doesn't look much better than when I started. May give it another pass over when I have some time as I didn't do the other side yet anyway.
On the stone chips on the front end though, was largely a waste of time. You have to build up in layers allowing it to dry and it pretty much just pulled back out of the chips with one pass of the levelling/blending solution with minimal pressure.
