BMW Frozen paint on E30s

[amcink]

Anyone done a frozen type of paint on the E30?

[bmw325csi]

Just call it what it is, a satin paint job

[amcink]

Just call it what it is, a satin paint job

I think is call a matt finish.

[kronus]

no it isn't! the word is matte goddammit

anyway e30s are not curvy enough to make it look good.

[theTBLACK]

Frozen?

How about this.

[amcink]

^^^^^^that looks awsome! I want it!

[broach328]

Frozen?

How about this.

judging by the heavy coats and the fact that most people in the picture have their hands in their pockets, this could possibly be frozen?

[lambo]

Only someone with like an S85 in an E30 M3 is going to deal with true "Frozen" Paint. Shit's expensive iirc and pretty maintenance heavy. Not many here could afford to nor would want to.

[bmwstephen]

What makes the bmw brand so expensive. Last time i check they are much less durable and more maintenance intensive and sensitive than other matte jobs

[broach328]

[oliver.r]

What makes the bmw brand so expensive. Last time i check they are much less durable and more maintenance intensive and sensitive than other matte jobs

%100
you pay for the novelty
I think Mercedes has it on their "black" editions
its like 4k extra for a shittier paint

[broach328]

not sure if the video I embedded is working but it is the BMW paint guy explaining frozen paint. If they called it matte finish, customers would see it as lessening the vehicles value. By giving it a more dignifying name, the person who buys it will feel they have something unique and "greater" than the other m3s. The people who drive the cars and enjoy them, the real BMW enthusiast, the enthusiast required to maintain the paint finish, will likely not be the people who buy these.

Rather than spray a matte finish and call it a more valuable car, why didn't BMW do another csl inspired package? Strip an m3 down a little, give it a bit more power, more aggressive suspension? That way your targeting the enthusiasts who enjoy driving the car and it becomes MORE of a drivers car rather than less? A day at the track, an autocross, or a few hundred miles on the interstate and your gonna be sending the bumper off to be painted.

[bmwstephen]

%100
you pay for the novelty
I think Mercedes has it on their "black" editions
its like 4k extra for a shittier paint

has your shopped been trained to repair this type of pain? looks like a pain in the ass

[oliver.r]

not sure if the video I embedded is working but it is the BMW paint guy explaining frozen paint. If they called it matte finish, customers would see it as lessening the vehicles value. By giving it a more dignifying name, the person who buys it will feel they have something unique and "greater" than the other m3s. The people who drive the cars and enjoy them, the real BMW enthusiast, the enthusiast required to maintain the paint finish, will likely not be the people who buy these.

Rather than spray a matte finish and call it a more valuable car, why didn't BMW do another csl inspired package? Strip an m3 down a little, give it a bit more power, more aggressive suspension? That way your targeting the enthusiasts who enjoy driving the car and it becomes MORE of a drivers car rather than less? A day at the track, an autocross, or a few hundred miles on the interstate and your gonna be sending the bumper off to be painted.

they have that, its the limerock edition

[oliver.r]

has your shopped been trained to repair this type of pain? looks like a pain in the ass

we have gotten repair procedures for it but we avoid it as much as possible, its not worth the headache