As some others have pointed out, the article wasn't as flat as I would have liked. I pressed it under a couple of books for a day and it helped. I think the strap that comes with it is too narrow. It's a good band, but it's not enough. I ended up using all of these plus something else I had. In summary it worked well to hide some of the clear coat issues on my old 328i so I'm glad I bought it. But out of the box it wasn't well presented.