Painted Lip

rmedeir1 · 08-20-2015, 09:53 AM

I went to my dealer's auto body shop to get an estimate on painting the front lip of the car. Their response was that they tried it before and given the lip's material he has had flaking occur as early as someone driving off of the lot.

For those of you that have painted did you do anything special to prevent flaking/wearing? Need advice. Powdercoating won't work to my understanding but are you truly painting, plasti dipping, etc.?

AM4ZING · 08-20-2015, 10:40 AM

Sand, primer, paint... It will stick like white on rice

Status Gruppe MNF · 08-20-2015, 10:49 AM

Adhesion promoter and you will be good.

e90-4aj · 08-20-2015, 11:51 AM

A reputable body shop should have no problem painting it. You should definitely not have issues with flacking

AIRHEIR · 08-20-2015, 11:59 AM

Done it. See pic.

RocketBoots · 08-20-2015, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by AM4ZING

Sand, primer, paint... It will stick like white on rice

You mean like brown on rice? All these damn organic, free roaming, vegan fed, tree huggin Californians; they don't even have white rice here anymore

AM4ZING · 08-20-2015, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by RocketBoots

You mean like brown on rice? All these damn organic, free roaming, vegan fed, tree huggin Californians; they don't even have white rice here anymore

hahaa i feel you

TheDiddy · 08-20-2015, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by AIRHEIR

Done it. See pic.

Damn that looks nice!

AIRHEIR · 08-20-2015, 12:30 PM

Thanks man

dmk08 · 08-20-2015, 12:57 PM

Mine is painted Mineral Grey. No issues. Cost me $75.

Ryan@IND · 08-20-2015, 01:31 PM

As long as the piece is prepped properly, then there are no issues.

rmedeir1 · 08-20-2015, 02:04 PM

Thank you for reaffirming...looks like BMW 's auto bodyshop (on dealer's premise) just gave me the grin-fuck.

lsturbointeg · 08-20-2015, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by AIRHEIR

Done it. See pic.

Nice!

x.shell · 08-20-2015, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by rmedeir1

I went to my dealer's auto body shop to get an estimate on painting the front lip of the car. Their response was that they tried it before and given the lip's material he has had flaking occur as early as someone driving off of the lot.

For those of you that have painted did you do anything special to prevent flaking/wearing? Need advice. Powdercoating won't work to my understanding but are you truly painting, plasti dipping, etc.?

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Originally Posted by Status Gruppe MNF

Adhesion promoter and you will be good.

+1. They should use an adhesion promoter... it's the same thing they'd use on your urethane bumper. I understand the hesitation of the shop as the lip is low to the ground and is bound to get scraped and flex a lot. But there are literally a thousand shops out there that will paint the lip. I'd rather take it to one of them than try to talk a shop, that doesn't want to do it, into doing it.

Gac101177 · 08-20-2015, 05:28 PM

I had mine painted gloss black and the CF splitters painted AY.

cays · 08-20-2015, 05:52 PM

I've done it twice. The first time the paint ended up chipping fairly quickly. The second time I had the lip Xpeled a week after we left it in the hot sun to finish curing after painting for a week. Bingo - still looks perfect. Don't think I'd ever paint a lip w/o factoring a film treatment into the equation. But all of the above posts apply.

to_riffic · 08-21-2015, 12:14 AM

another ymb for reference...

Denso · 08-21-2015, 12:39 AM

Mine is painted in BSM, no issues and looks beautiful, I also painted the side skirts with no issues too.

Denso

danniexi · 08-21-2015, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by RocketBoots

You mean like brown on rice? All these damn organic, free roaming, vegan fed, tree huggin Californians; they don't even have white rice here anymore

uh... do you even Asian?

lpphreakx06 · 08-21-2015, 04:17 PM

Need adhesion promoter as well.

Throttleday · 08-21-2015, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Gac101177

I had mine painted gloss black and the CF splitters painted AY.

Interesting - I have to ask, why would you paint the CF splitters? Weren't the originals already AY? Seems to me it would be cheaper to 1. remove the CF splitters, or 2. not put them on in the first place.

We must get to the bottom of this mystery...

///Machiavelli · 08-21-2015, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Throttleday

Interesting - I have to ask, why would you paint the CF splitters? Weren't the originals already AY? Seems to me it would be cheaper to 1. remove the CF splitters, or 2. not put them on in the first place.

We must get to the bottom of this mystery...

You can't have the MPerf lip without the CF splitters.

08-20-2015, 09:53 AM	#1
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e90-4aj Colonel 279 Rep 2,144 Posts Drives: E46-M3, F80-M3, 970 GTS Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: So-Cal iTrader: (8)	A reputable body shop should have no problem painting it. You should definitely not have issues with flacking
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08-20-2015, 11:59 AM	#5
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08-20-2015, 12:57 PM	#10
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rmedeir1 First Lieutenant 132 Rep 370 Posts Drives: BMW MW M4 - MPE, CCBs, all CF Join Date: May 2014 Location: windermere, FL iTrader: (0)	Thank you for reaffirming...looks like BMW 's auto bodyshop (on dealer's premise) just gave me the grin-fuck.
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08-20-2015, 05:28 PM	#15
Gac101177 M4-SAHD 512 Rep 611 Posts Drives: M3 Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Jacksonville iTrader: (0) Garage List 2015 BMW M4 [10.00]	I had mine painted gloss black and the CF splitters painted AY. Attached Images
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cays Private First Class 143 Rep 155 Posts Drives: 3 Germans Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: USA iTrader: (0)	I've done it twice. The first time the paint ended up chipping fairly quickly. The second time I had the lip Xpeled a week after we left it in the hot sun to finish curing after painting for a week. Bingo - still looks perfect. Don't think I'd ever paint a lip w/o factoring a film treatment into the equation. But all of the above posts apply.
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08-21-2015, 12:14 AM	#17
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