If you have a car that you take to the track often, you know how hard it is to remove the rolled-up rubber marks you get on the exterior. They don’t often damage the paint, they just require some intense polishing to remove. And that’s the risk: If you aren’t careful with the polishing, you may burn or damage the paint elsewhere when you’re concentrated on removing each mark.
This BMW M2 had both paint protection film and a ceramic coating. With this combo, about 70% of the marks came off just with a good washing. Another 10-15% came off with a clay-bar application. The rest come off with a single stage polish. Compared to another car with no PPF or coatings I worked on recently, this one cleaned up in about half the time. The PPF provided a sacrificial layer of protection against rock chips. The ceramic coating offered an additional protective layer against contamination and UV damage.
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Taken together, it’s an expensive package, but will pay off in 10 years when removed to sell the car and it doesn’t require repainting. In the near-term, it makes clean-up a breeze. Check out the video below to see how easy it was to remove these rubber stains.