[dirtydarthdub]

Rubbish drive back from a funeral there - bloomin gritter joined a dual carraigeway as we were all in full flow. I would normally hang back and go by with a wide berth but had to pass this one....fracking serious chip right down to the metal in the middle of the middle of bonnet.

What the hell?

Is our paint that thin, or are the councils still putting dodgy amounts of crushed brick in the grit mix??

What's my best plan of action here for repair?

Take it to BMW?

Order a touch up kit - from where?

Seriously miffed after washing it and using dodo juice red mist on it, well pampered.

And to top it off the west coast is super mild just now, 5degrees showing on the car wtf!

[Dr Dave]

All you can really do apart from repainting the entire panel is to touch it in......I've sufered the same recently too.

[bounty78]

Yes Le Mans Blue is nice to look at but they pick up stone chips so easily..i have gone beyond the point of looking for them now, haha

[Billyray911]

This is what you need.Comes with a pot of paint and pot of lacquer (both 12ml) and applicator brushes on the lids of each.
Part number is 51 91 0 302 138.
Can't remember how much but discount available via Anneka and Sytner.

[parapaul]

If I ever get round to buying front splitters for mine, I'm going to have the whole front end resprayed - it's got 100k worth of stone chips

[Boyd1963]

If Anneka reads this I also need some touch up paint in Mineral White.

[dirtydarthdub]

muchos grassyarse for the info, will update with photos when i give it a go. still seething but at least been able to be quite efficient this weekend and kill 2 birds with one stone when drowning the sorrows....gritchips and scotland in the 6 nations.