Front, hood, or no clear bra on M3?

[FC]

Of course it's pretty stupid for me to have waited this long to even consider it, but my ankle injury and other things got in the way when the car first arrived in the US.

I'm wondering if I should do a front-end wrap (hood+bumper+front quarter panels), just the hood, or nothing at all.

Currently the hood is in excellent shape except for a couple of tiny stone chips I can easily fix. Quarter panels in similar or even better shape. The bumper has a coupe of larger ship-like blemishes and a small scuff (~1" square at the very bottom corner right in front of the driver's wheel. I'm thinking of touching it up myself and hope for the best.

Par of me thinks maybe I should let the front bumper be and repaint it when it gets bad enough. The hood alone should be so easy to do I could even try it myself. There are no cuts at all. But maybe I should also protect the quarter panels, at which point, might as well do it all, no?

What are your thoughts on what if anything to clear bra?

[dan]

go naked

[John V]

I would fix the stone chips and wrap it. The clearbra materials just keep getting better and better and it really beats having stuff re-painted or constantly touching up stone chips.

[FC]

Originally Posted by John V

I would fix the stone chips and wrap it. The clearbra materials just keep getting better and better and it really beats having stuff re-painted or constantly touching up stone chips.

You think I should do whole front end plus mirrors?

[JST]

Originally Posted by FC

Of course it's pretty stupid for me to have waited this long to even consider it, but my ankle injury and other things got in the way when the car first arrived in the US.

I'm wondering if I should do a front-end wrap (hood+bumper+front quarter panels), just the hood, or nothing at all.

Currently the hood is in excellent shape except for a couple of tiny stone chips I can easily fix. Quarter panels in similar or even better shape. The bumper has a coupe of larger ship-like blemishes and a small scuff (~1" square at the very bottom corner right in front of the driver's wheel. I'm thinking of touching it up myself and hope for the best.

Par of me thinks maybe I should let the front bumper be and repaint it when it gets bad enough. The hood alone should be so easy to do I could even try it myself. There are no cuts at all. But maybe I should also protect the quarter panels, at which point, might as well do it all, no?

What are your thoughts on what if anything to clear bra?

One other thing to consider is the rear fender flares. After 36K miles mine are sandblasted with chips; there's a small amount of plastic protector on the leading edge, but it's not big enough. If I could own the car from new I would have put something more on those.

[John V]

Originally Posted by JST

One other thing to consider is the rear fender flares. After 36K miles mine are sandblasted with chips; there's a small amount of plastic protector on the leading edge, but it's not big enough. If I could own the car from new I would have put something more on those.

Yep, I agree. Rear fender leading edges, hood, front bumper, mirrors, and ideally the leading edge of the rear bumper / trailing edge of the front fenders.

[FC]

Originally Posted by JST

One other thing to consider is the rear fender flares. After 36K miles mine are sandblasted with chips; there's a small amount of plastic protector on the leading edge, but it's not big enough. If I could own the car from new I would have put something more on those.

Yes, I meant to add that too.

[Nick M3]

For what its worth, Dr. Colorchip, but polish the excess off rather than use the wiping compound works really well.