[iifymbro]

Originally Posted by joebootch

Hello - I am new to the forum so apologies if this has been covered extensively (I am trying to get through historical postings as fast as I can).

I am planning to order a G90 and live in the northeast (just outside NYC) and considering Frozen Deep Grey. That said, was hoping to get perspective on how practical this is to maintain. I have 3 little kids so not a lot of time time to consistently tend to it.

Conversely, if I went non-frozen color, I was leaning towards Brooklyn Grey but then put myself in a mental pretzel trying to figure out the "real world" difference between that, Storm Bay, Dark Graphite, etc. Has anyone found a good resource that compares these colors (have been currently looking at dealer spec videos on youtube to try and decipher differences).

I acknowledge these are fairly basic questions but hoping to get up to speed as quickly as possible so I can begin contributing back to the forum.

Appreciate anyone's feedback and perspective. Thank you.

If you don't full PPF the car you'll need to hand wash frozen paint with specific matte PH neutral soap (Dr. Beaselys makes good stuff for frozen), can't drive it through car washes or take it to wash places in general cause of the soap they use and general lack of care taken vs what you would do at home to mitigate using contaminated sponges/towels on it.

When it's all covered in plastic PPF your options expand in terms of cleaning it but that'll cost another 8k or whatever it is to get full coverage and the self healing properties of the films doesn't last forever and in general the PPF needs to be replaced after X amount of years.

I've only put dr beaselys ceramic coat on my frozen G87 with no PPF and it's not a big deal overall vs gloss paint. Couple tiny rock chips on the front end, hand wash it every once in awhile.

[STi from DSM]

Frozen paint looks amazing but would be a pain to take care of.

[cubanbimmer3]

I have frozen dark grey ordered on my wagon, but still considering going with an individual metallic paint for ease of maintenance. I have never had a frozen paint, but I am not too concerned about maintaining it given that I only hand wash my own cars anyways. Having seen it in person, it really does look incredible on this car. My G80 is skyscraper grey, which is my favorite color car that I have ever had. I’ve even considered ordering it on the M5 touring, but feels dumb to not get something more “individual” if going that route. I saw thunder metallic on this G80 that looked like an interesting skyscraper-esque choice. After seeing that Maldives blue M3 on the home page, I’ve considered that as well, but I think dark colors look great on the G90.