[betty02]

Does this cover ALL parts?

The bonnet has all started to carrode on the front lip, mainly blisters and some scabby rusty bits, possibly from stone chips? Also jy passengers side wheel arach has the same. What's the chanes of getting these parts repalced under thei warranty or will they not accept parts in these locations like some other manufactorers?

Simple proces of just booking it in with the local stealers?

[sensible]

Originally Posted by betty02

Does this cover ALL parts?

The bonnet has all started to carrode on the front lip, mainly blisters and some scabby rusty bits, possibly from stone chips? Also jy passengers side wheel arach has the same. What's the chanes of getting these parts repalced under thei warranty or will they not accept parts in these locations like some other manufactorers?

Simple proces of just booking it in with the local stealers?

Isn't it a perforation warranty only....not just rust.

[sensible]

Further to the above, just found this on the Internet. ...
"All new BMW cars registered from 1st January 2004 are covered by a 12-year anti-corrosion warranty against perforation by rust. ... The warranty does not cover corrosion caused by neglect, accident damage, stone chips or other external influences."

[betty02]

Hmm stone chips! Think is, it's right on the lip where it meets with the bumoer, can't really see a stone hitting exactly where that is and all the way along! I will get it in and see what they say!

[betty02]

Here's the main area in question!

[Wills2]

That looks a right mess, that shouldn't happen on a well looked after car, is it well looked after? As they will apply that to the decision I would have thought.

[Lincoln61]

That looks shocking.....Never seen that on a BMW before. Have you been washing it with brine?

[shoestring]

Hate to say it and I may be wrong, but judging from the pics the orange peel on that paint finish doesn't look like it is BMW original paint. I suspect it has been poorly re-painted sometime in the past.

[betty02]

It's not mistreated by anymeans. I drive a fair whack, good few thousand a week, but it's washed each weekend no matter what the wetaher be it by me, by a quick hand car wash etc. All other paint work on the car is absolutely spot on just the bonnet. It horrendous.

If it is cheap paint and not BMW just seams weird that area of the car has been affected.

I know full well I will have a case on my hands fighting this! But worth a shot before I just end up paying to get it done as I can't stand it much more!

[RoShambolt]

Do you use a lot of hand car washes?
They use some pretty caustic traffic film cleaner pre clean spray, if that gets under any chips I've seen is blister like crazy. My mates mrs came home with the 10p size blisters from the same thing. They knew the chips were there, the only recent change.....they became too busy to wash their cars so used road side car wash places. Avoid them like the plague, people say "they do a great job, always looks shinny"
But they don't know why their nut caps are getting bleached white, their stone chips start blistering and the list goes on.

Also I don't think I've ever seen them change out water and they do the wheels with the same water.

It may not be this, but I would put my money on it being a build up of chips and TF cleaner attack.

[betty02]

Not really, try to avoid them best I can. One every 3 months maybe?

Sounds semi plausable I guess! I might just bite the bullit and get it repsrayed, from all my mileage my front bumper could di with a flcik to be honest!

[Kendo67]

Originally Posted by shoestring

Hate to say it and I may be wrong, but judging from the pics the orange peel on that paint finish doesn't look like it is BMW original paint. I suspect it has been poorly re-painted sometime in the past.

That was my exact thoughts , too much orange peel to be a factory finish.

Having said that some of the new Audi`s and MB`s have a shocking paint finish.

Kenny

[Wills2]

That hasn't just happened overnight, you'd have noticed that issue developing some time ago I would have thought.

When I recently swapped from my 90,000 mile M3 to a 27,000 mile 7 series I was amazed at how poorly the cars paint had been looked after, took me 4 days to clean polish and wax the paintwork to remove all the stuff stuck to the surface and remove the swirls and bring the paint back to life, looked like a different car afterwards, my M3s paint was in far better condition despite doing over 3 times the mileage and being older.

It's important to clean your cars paint (not just wash but clean with iron fallout remover and a clay bar and have decent layer of protection on it) at least once or twice a year.

[MashinBenzin]

Originally Posted by Wills2

.... 7 series...
....took me 4 days to clean polish and wax the paintwork...

Sounds about right for something with the surface area of the Ark Royal, Wills

betty02 That looks awful, I'd be tempted with cutting losses and effort and searching out a replacement bonnet from a new-ish rear-end write off.

[Mr Whippy]

Had car from new? Previous damage/repair?

How many miles?

Did you see it coming earlier? It looks like it’s been active at least a year.

I doubt you’ll have any luck now.

But had it been clearly perforated without associated chips (impossible to tell now), you may have had luck.

PS, I had corrosion perforation work done under warranty at 10yrs on my Z4, and they didn’t do a great job.
The match was awesome, the finish etc, but it was coming back after 2yrs!
New panel is only real solution.

[Wills2]

Originally Posted by MashinBenzin

Sounds about right for something with the surface area of the Ark Royal, Wills

It was awful everything seems supersized, the polishing is the pain even with a DA polisher and the paint is hard, used a yellow medium foam pad and Menzerna 2200 as that has some cut but also leaves a nice finish as I couldn't be arsed then having to do another stage with a soft waffle pad and some 3800.

[thescouselander]

Originally Posted by Kendo67

That was my exact thoughts , too much orange peel to be a factory finish.

Having said that some of the new Audi`s and MB`s have a shocking paint finish.

Kenny

I agree - looks like a re-spray to me. The finish on the bumper looks different to bonnet so it's clearly not factory.

[ashenfie]

Originally Posted by thescouselander

I agree - looks like a re-spray to me. The finish on the bumper looks different to bonnet so it's clearly not factory.

Totally agree, that paint looks shocking could never image it to be original

[StuyMac]

BMW Will only cover a repair if the paint is original (or if repairs have previously been carried out, they have been done by an approved bodyshop), and is undamaged, ie not from stone chips.

As already mentioned that looks like its been repaired in the past, and had a very thin coat of paint. As its thin, the leading edge looks like it has had minimal paint, and rusted, and also further up from the edge, the rust "spots" had been started by stone chips, possibly down to thin paint.

Ive had a bootlid repalced on my old E91 in the past, but I think you will be very lucky to get that repaired under warranty