Are Octavia's prone to stone chips ?

I don't think that are Any worse than any other car All cars get stone chips.

Ours has rather a lot, and it's not driven fast or close.  A wax crayon, slightly darker than the paint, is the easiest solution.

yes they are, when I bought my Octavia with 1500 miles on clock it had more stone chips on front then my 9yr old Audi did! was a bit disappointed..

30,000 miles up and hardly any.........that's with silver paint, some colours do tend to be more prone than others

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Juan

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I think this is so open to the treatment of the previous owner as to be difficult to say? Do they do motorway or deserted country road driving, do they live in a city where the council do those awful bitumen and gravel fixes. Does the driver follow cars closely or sit back etc etc. Mine is a 10 plate and has no chips.

I was thinking about this. my 7 year old Subaru had none. My brand new Octavia got one on the bonnet in the first couple of days. Had both cars from new, but the Subaru was a metallic blue and octavia is black.

The front under the grill gets a lot of stone chips. I put some touch up (matched paint) about 6months ago which hid them all and there's quite a few more since I've had that done.

 

To be honest they're hardly noticeable unless you're looking at them lying on the floor!

Pre FL can have issues on the sills, stone chip paint isn't high enough.

 

On the front they do get them but no worse than any other car I've had.

My bonnet covered in small chips + front bumper + lower side rear bumper (have mudflaps all round too)  + 5 chips on rear spoiler! Going to buy a chip ex paint kit . Windscreen looks like it has been shot blasted.  Never had problems like this before, I blame the state of the roads now.

 

Shame car did not get Ventureshield treatment from new. Had warranty issues that took 12 months to fix, that put me off spending the money till I was sure all fixed.