[Ftpohyeah]

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It looks pretty bad. And i dont even have 2,000 miles yet

[Billy_BMW]

Yes. Fairly standard for a car with huge ducts for cooling. Doesn’t look the best but what can you do? Porsche offers much closer spaced mesh on the front of its GT2/3 cars. For us humble folk, we have to make do with large open grills for cooling purposes and inevitable rock chips that will pierce the radiator. Best of all, not covered by warranty!! 😒

[M Fifty]

Looks fine.

Try to avoid swarms of large insects.

Or tailgating...

[FalconUSAF]

I can't imagine what it will look like at 20k miles?!?! Time for BMW to send us a "fix." Will look at mine later tonight

[Greyzor]

You can get a radiator comb and address most of the little stuff.

I used it on my race bike but mostly to ensure proper cooling vs aesthetics.

[Ftpohyeah]

Im glad its "normal" and not because of.. whatever reason that i did.

The crazy thing is i drive like a grandpa 70% of the time!!! I am one of those on the road that you say why is it always the fast cars that drive so freaking slow. I am one of those guys.

How much to replace it?

[Billy_BMW]

Originally Posted by Ftpohyeah

Im glad its "normal" and not because of.. whatever reason that i did.

The crazy thing is i drive like a grandpa 70% of the time!!! I am one of those on the road that you say why is it always the fast cars that drive so freaking slow. I am one of those guys.

How much to replace it?

Same 🤣 - we’ve bought the wrong car.

Couple hundred each side. But no point replacing as it’ll happen again. Just like stone chips - you can only be so careful but they’ll keep happening.

[BlkSVT]

Originally Posted by Ftpohyeah

Im glad its "normal" and not because of.. whatever reason that i did.

The crazy thing is i drive like a grandpa 70% of the time!!! I am one of those on the road that you say why is it always the fast cars that drive so freaking slow. I am one of those guys.

How much to replace it?

Driving slow means there's always somebody in front of you kicking up shit
So....Mine looks fine

OK, OK, I'm j/k. Every car I've owned has looked like this, and with most cars being "bottom breathers", it's even worse. A radiator comb will fix some of that if it bothers you enough to warrant trying to get in there

[ContactPatch]

In the early days of the Cayman/Boxster the air intakes for the the front radiators would get all clogged up with cigarette butts and other road debris. The solution was to retrofit some fine mesh/screen in that area to stop the area from collecting garbage. I believe the same thing could be done here easily, and it would save the radiator and probably look better too!

[fullstack]

The radiator must be made of a really soft metal. I got a bent up groove from a big fly.

[alan7467]

Originally Posted by ContactPatch

In the early days of the Cayman/Boxster the air intakes for the the front radiators would get all clogged up with cigarette butts and other road debris. The solution was to retrofit some fine mesh/screen in that area to stop the area from collecting garbage. I believe the same thing could be done here easily, and it would save the radiator and probably look better too!

Porsche recently supplied mesh intake grills to all 2017 and I believe some 2018 718 Cayman/Boxster owners (if you go to the dealer of course). There's also aftermarket mesh inserts available for the front radiators on the 991.1/2 911's. Would be nice if something like that was made available for the M2/M2C.

Is anyone aware of any aftermarket solutions?

[msdss]

It happened all the time with the FMIC I had on my old car. I would comb it whenever it got too ugly.

Radiator guards are very common for motorcycles. You could always try and fashion something that looks good on your own.

Perhaps try to use something like this:
https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/...radiator-guard