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Don’t have any products to suggest, just putting my 2 cents. I didn’t build it bought the 25’ g80 in frozen brilliant white because it was sitting so gorgeously in the showroom floor of my dealership. Before buying the OEM frozen paint I’ve already heard about the cons of owning one in regards to maintenance. In my 3 plus months of owning it, I’ve racked over 3k miles on it while it isn’t meant to be my daily car but I couldn’t help having fun with it. I’ve done freeway and local, long and short distances. I’ve taken it to car wash with hand wash no track only. In the recent so cal fire event, my family and I escaped (not evacuated because how close we were to the fire) in the m3 where I drove in the streets full of fallen trees and branches. I kept hearing the bang bang sounds from both the bottom front and top of cf roof. But it was the last thing on mind to care about the car at that time. Fortunately we were one of the lucky ones that our house survived the fire. Since the fire, I’ve been driving my x5m. Last week, I remembered to check on the m3. I thoroughly and closely checked the entire body including the cf roof. I was surprised there was no damage at all. Not even a dot of chip. So the point of sharing this is that I realized the factory frozen paint maybe in my case is white, is not as scary as most people said. In my case, it proved that it is perhaps more resilient than gloss finish because if it was gloss I’m 100% sure I would find chipping damage on the clear coat. While I think there’s nothing wrong with using top of line specific products and only hand washed ourselves, to me I’m ok with having someone else wash it as long as I know there’s no harsh chemicals in the soap. But if there is, doesn’t it get rainsed off right away anyway? Having said all, for peace of mind, the m3 is being ppfed this week for full front and roof (I was thinking full but changed my mind). If I can turn back time, I would have bought a gloss finish, drive it for some time until I’m itching for a change then stealth ppf it. I did this to my f95 and thought the investment was 100% worth it. I once just with limited resources, I rainsed it only and wiped it dry for a wash without any issues. But on the other hand, having to pay stealth ppf on already matte finished car that the result doesn’t yield any visual pleasure is difficult to accept.
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