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Went on a road trip. Car earned some badges of honor. Gotta get a windshield chip repaired. :(. Hope they can repair it. Definitely gonna get the windshield film. The PPF on the paint did an amazing job. Glad I went with the thicker 10mil for the front end, a-pillars, and roof. 330 miles. Some...

Man. This annoys the hell out of me. I don’t think it’s a bunch so much as a failure for the infotainment UI guys. It frustrates me so much that I can’t touch and drag maps in car play. My 2017 Focus could do it. Instead you have to try and move it with arrow buttons. This has to be a...

If I don't like it then maybe in the next year or two I'll have the film removed and do a bulk PPF install so there are zero seams anywhere.

Sad, they already started applying it and it has the cut-outs around the badges. I'll just have to live with it. Because of timelines for a cruise, I originally told them to do the cut-outs because I didn't know if they were bolted in from the back.

For everyone who had full body PPF. I am trying to find out for sure. Are the badges bolted in? Or just stuck on with double sided sticky tape? Reason being, if they are sticky taped, then I'll have the PPF guys remove the badges and then have no seams around the badges. Then just put them...

Part of me wants to just remove the plastic engine cover completely. And let the engine be completely exposed. The only reason I don't is it really doesn't save that much weight, and it does keep water that comes in from the lid from splashing down on everything. I want my car back lol. I...

Hah, I also went for some Ice Cream too. Local place makes it in house, so good. I try to go once a month.

Dropped it off for a full body PPF since I intend to drive the crap out of it and don't want to worry about rock chips and other damage just from driving. Full Body PPF. XPEL ULTIMATE PLUS 10 on all forward facing parts and roof. Regular XPEL ULTIMATE PLUS on the rest of the car. I won't see...

I saw that, but even though it says "OEM Replacement" I wasn't sure if its as actually the OEM part.

Welp, better or worse, it's at the detailer to have full XPEL 10mil installed for the bumper, hood, fenders, a-pillars, mirror caps, and roof. And regular XPEL ultimate for all other panels. 70% front windshield tint, and ceramic coating after PPF on the body and wheels. ouch. $$$$. I do...

I paid $500 for this skid plate for my Focus RS, and I can tell you a hell of a lot more design and material went into this one. The OEM Ford plate was a POS fabric based one. And would scoop up snow/ice during the winter, which caused it to deform and sit lower, scooping up yet again MORE...

Yeah, I tried sanding it by using a hole punch on some sand paper and gluing the end to the eraser end of a pencil.

Sad news. Went to wet-sand it, and before I even got there, I went to wipe the panel down with a bit of soapy water and a microfibre towel to remove anything on the paint and the touch-up wasn't adhering, peeled right off in some spots. :( I spent like 20m prepping the filler and surrounding...

That is still a possibility. I did consider instead of ppf on the mirrors having them wrapped in a CF wrap.

This is where I'm leaving it for the night, the touch-up needs to cure fully before I can try and level it out. I'm not happy with the 2nd hole from the left. I think it's raised up too much, and I might have too much primer in there. If I do then when I go to level it out tomorrow, I'll...

24hrs later, holes look pretty filled. Feel pretty solid. I did notice a bit of crowning in the light reflection, so I might lose a bit of paint when I sand the area after adding the touch-up.

Totally didn't even think of plastic screws. Might have had to drill the heads off though since not sure I could get them cut down flush enough. Oh well, too late. Maybe if I have to fix it again in the next few days. The bumper is pretty thin there, so there isn't much for a screw to grab...

Okay, 2nd application is done, just needs to cure now. I don't think it will sink much further. I'm gonna leave it here and then use a layer of primer, then touch-up Seneca Blue, and slowly layer that up, and finish with clear on top. Then I should be able to wet sand it smooth and buff. And...

I'll be honest, even if I were to apply the touch-up paint to a dip in the paint, it would look better than bumper plugs sticking up, and causing the PPF to bubble around them.

Application #2 waiting to set so I can remove the tape and see how much more I need to fill. I may get to a point where I can't use the tape and will have to very quickly fill, then wipe off the excess. We'll see how it looks after the 2nd application. Might need a 3rd, or 4th to get to a...

Then, I put a layer of painters tape down, I ended up putting a different layer down later on to completely cover the lip when I saw how messy the filler was going to be. After I put the new layer down, I added another layer to the splitter. Because this stuff is goopy and I could see it...

Well, still waiting on the touch-up paint, but I didn't want to wait since the filler needs 24hrs to dry. I should have done this yesterday, but life happened. So, I started off by using a VERY sharp exacto blade to trim the crown. You know how the story goes, I'll be careful. Ugh. It was...

I am really disappointed with the audio system in the Lotus. The fact that the upgraded KEF lacks tweeters is mind boggling. It has no stereo imaging because of that lack, and the bass muddy as can be and only gets worse the more you turn it up. The Sony system in my Focus RS was better (and...

Well, I called around to a few paint shops, and detail shops to see if they had any interest in trying to take care of this without repainting the entire bumper. I'm afraid they'd never match it properly and it would always be a slightly different color. So, since the worst I can do is make it...