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Originally Posted by Djhumvee
car washes don't remove paint dude. It's not only rock chips, it's the smaller particles that sandblast a windshield over time, that's why the edges of doors get wore down as well as the top pinch weld above the glass. go to a body shop and ask them if its from a car wash.
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In the case of the F15... the car washes cause the paint to come off. You can speculate whether there was some small original paint chip or whatever there before hand if you like. Ultimately, the car wash is what makes it look like what the OP pictured.
I am only going off the photo evidence I have, and experience working the auto industry. For ~85000 miles the paint up there looked fine. And <30000 miles later it looks as pictured after having used automated car washes pretty regularly.
Knowing what I know now, I would never have use an auto car wash on any vehicle that does not have a complete coverage windshield trim/gasket above the windshield. BMW made a stupid decision to change to this design.