Hey,

Just wondered if you guys/gals suffer with many stone chips on your magic black paint? I know it depends on your day-to-day driving but I've got a few on the front and a couple of chips on the front two wings.

I drove back from work the other night, went past a lorry and heard a thud. I now have a chip on my passenger rear quarter! Its annoying me so much. The Car was/is in fantastic condition - I know it can't be helped and if I showed most people they would say its nothing.

ahhhh rant over!

Mark

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Surprisingly, no! Not from what I have seen so far anyway. It gets driven hard too.

Yes, the paint is hard but it seems to be brittle, so it chips easily. I use the Chipex kit to touch mine in, then clearcoat it with clear from Halfords. When I finally find the bottle I'll wet-sand them flat, but even so most of them are virtually invisible now.

With the condition of the UK roads the way they are then you cannot avoid stone chips.

It is frustrating when you look after your car and then have lorries etc flicking up stones.

I'm going to touch the worst of mine up in the spring. Clean out the chip and then mix some basecoat with clearcoat and as said above wet sand so the repair is flat and polish.

Mine is riddled with stone chips, and it looks like somebody splashed brake fiuld on bits of the roof as well. Full respray in the time for the summer.

Even my yellow one has stone chips. On pillars etc lol.

one of those things, they are going to happen, there is no way to prevent this completely but there are companys out there who will wrap the car/open areas in a clear plastic, so the stones hit that and not the paint.

like a screen protector on your phone, or that armour sheild for the whole phone. but it can be ££££

companies like chips away are supposed to be good and cost effective? why not get them to come and sort out the most noticeable ones?

one of those things, they are going to happen, there is no way to prevent this completely but there are companys out there who will wrap the car/open areas in a clear plastic, so the stones hit that and not the paint.

like a screen protector on your phone, or that armour sheild for the whole phone. but it can be ££££

3M do the clear heli-tape

companies like chips away are supposed to be good and cost effective? why not get them to come and sort out the most noticeable ones?

All ChipsAway do is what you'd do yourself. Splodge some touch-up paint in the chip. They did tell me that was all they would do, but even so, I was very much unimpressed and I did a better job myself to be honest.

All ChipsAway do is what you'd do yourself. Splodge some touch-up paint in the chip. They did tell me that was all they would do, but even so, I was very much unimpressed and I did a better job myself to be honest.

Really? Iv always read good reviews and whilst it almost had to be a case of touching it up, I was on the understanding they did a much better job of it to the point where as you cant tell it was chipped initially?

Really? Iv always read good reviews and whilst it almost had to be a case of touching it up, I was on the understanding they did a much better job of it to the point where as you cant tell it was chipped initially?

They are a franchise IIRC soo it is dependant on your area.

i would only really use them for the big things like key scratches, or big door knocks.

Im not too bad with doing things with cars, but bodywork is an area I know absolutely nothing about, just how to clean it. So I wouldnt do any touching up etc. lol.

Really? Iv always read good reviews and whilst it almost had to be a case of touching it up, I was on the understanding they did a much better job of it to the point where as you cant tell it was chipped initially?

The people who did mine (Milton Keynes East franchise) were very nice, but their work on individual stone chips was poor -> satisfactory.

They did have a good system for real cases of road rash where they literally sprayed the whole of the front of the car then wiped off the excess paint then dried it with a big hair drier and finally polished it smooth but they didn't clearcoat it so it still looked visibly duller than the area of paint around it. You really do need to touch-in the colour then fill the hole with clearcoat and then wet-sand it back. I was using my local bodyshop to do this, but it's so easy (apart from the wet-sanding) that I just do it myself now. Once I've saved up enough small marks I'll take it in to the bodyshop to be spot-sanded and polished.

With the condition of the UK roads the way they are then you cannot avoid stone chips.

Agreed - mine's not black (silver), but I've had a fair few stone chips, and they're almost all up the driver's side (wing & doors). :(

Im not too bad with doing things with cars, but bodywork is an area I know absolutely nothing about, just how to clean it. So I wouldnt do any touching up etc. lol.

There's a tutorial on DetailingWorld, but it's quite easy - the key is getting the chip clean, and keeping the paint thin when applying it to the chip. Also, use a 000 paintbrush instead of the supplied one, and make sure the finish is flat/level.

Agreed - mine's not black (silver), but I've had a fair few stone chips, and they're almost all up the driver's side (wing & doors). :(

There's a tutorial on DetailingWorld, but it's quite easy - the key is getting the chip clean, and keeping the paint thin when applying it to the chip. Also, use a 000 paintbrush instead of the supplied one, and make sure the finish is flat/level.

Thanks for the link, that makes it look a doddle, but somehow I dont think id make such a good job without some practise lol....im a bit heavy handed shall we say...

My bonnet is aweful, but thats how i bought it and knew at the time. looks good when polished, and the car was cheaper becasue of that so i dont mind, gonna get it resprayed for next summer anyway, that and the boot/bumper hopefully, thats if i stumble over some cash lol

My bonnet is aweful, but thats how i bought it and knew at the time. looks good when polished, and the car was cheaper becasue of that so i dont mind, gonna get it resprayed for next summer anyway, that and the boot/bumper hopefully, thats if i stumble over some cash lol

if you stumble over some cash, can you point me to where u did it so i can repeatedly stumble on this cash, many times, until I'm so rich i cant walk right from all the stumbling.

A pikey job. Turtle Colour Magic is what I've been using, comes with a wax stick that you can rub into the chip and fill the hole, then use the polish. It's a cheap and easy way of protecting the bare metal over the winter as a temp. solution until you can have the permanent paint job done.

mine has them because of the ba*t*rd audi drives that just sit in the f-ing fast lane plodding along that don't want to move !

not that i tail gate to all the miserable gits on here !

Every panel on my car has them except the rear quarter panels.

As someone else said, it made the car cheaper which seeing as it's mechanically fantasic is something I can live with.

There's loads of bodged repairs on mine where previous owner splodged on the chip repair paint and lacquer. Need to try tidy it up at some point.

Just fitted mudflaps front and back hopefully that will help prevent stones getting kicked up onto the car from my own tyres and protect the wheel arches.

Edited 9 November, 201015 yr by anewman

if you stumble over some cash, can you point me to where u did it so i can repeatedly stumble on this cash, many times, until I'm so rich i cant walk right from all the stumbling.

Il let you know and then we can both repeatedly stumble over cash and then my expensive fabia modification dreams may become reality, or maybe il buy a bugatti

Take it to a body shop and ask for a touch up and mop. They take out stone chips with the black magic mixed ready then mop it to blend it in with the old paint. And mopped cars look stunning!