About Matte Paint Jobs

Matte paint is en vogue right now. Looks great, but it’s high maintenance because it’s a porous paint.

But it does broadcast the driver has a disposable income, to both purchase and maintain it.

Read it online here.

 Favourite line:

The car can only be washed by hand ,… and never again can the car be run through an automatic wash.

Below is BMW’s ‘Frozen’ paint.

So pretty, no touching.

Very few manufacturers offer a matte paint option. Mercedes also does a beautiful job.

And so does Hyundai!

The only manufacturer to offer a matte paint on a non-luxury car.

Available on the Veloster for $800-ish; that’s thousands less than the ones you see above.

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Painted Factory Rims HAHA

Pink on the rear, teal on the front, all are factory rims that have been painted.

Non-car nerds: coloured rims are loved by the tuner crowd.

Here’s a proper painted rim.

If you’re going to drive on coloured rims they need to be really nice, which is why painting factory ones is funny.

 

 

Eye Roll to the L

BMW 7 Series are already so big, why bigger?  What are you transporting that’s so large?

L stands for unnecessesary.

(L = long wheelbase)