Attitudes to stone-chips... yes it's a bit of an odd question but I would like to know your thoughts on this issue. 

Driving home last sunday from a car show and unfortunately picked up another stone-chip on the bonnet which now comes to the grand total of 2 stone-chips. But as I am a perfectionist they tend to p1ss me off. I do know the whole way of filling them in and working at them to get them nearly hidden but at the end of the day they're still there.

I know there's 1 or 2 members on this forum that claim that their paint work is blemish free with no swirl marks, stone chips or imperfections but I live in the real world and when I travel 40 mile a day for work i'm bound to pick up the odd blemish.

But how far would you let your paintwork go with stone chips until you take it to the paint shop or is it a mind over matter thing?

I shan't tell you how bad my van is then

Absolutely covered in the things but due to the mileage it does there is no point in repairing as they'll just be straight back

All my stone chips are from the previous owner.

As are all the swirl marks, that funny squiggle scratch on the bonnet, the chip in the drivers door and the shed load of scratches on all the windows.

If the car didn't have all the other marks on it and I knew the paint would be exactly the same and unnoticeable then I'd get it done now. There's about 4 or 5  chips as far as I can remember, they aren't noticeable from a distance, I try not to notice them and I try not to care.

At the end of the day would you rather have a couple of little stone chips, or a couple of hundred pounds?

A couple of hundred pounds would come in handy come trade in time, and if you lean on the bonnet the dealer won't notice the chips

I think stone chips are ba$tards. 

I hate them spoil the moment after a good clean when you step back microfiber in hand and go ahhhhhh.

Rest of the time ignore them.

Touched the bad ones up twice in 18 months, in a very amature but acceptable way.

Got a stinker of a stone chip on the chrome grille. That will be with me for life! Or a new grille

Filling the chips in and then flatting the paint back with sandpaper and finally polishing is extremely satisfying when it goes well.

Of course would be nice not to have to do this

Blimey!...the very thought of sandpaper coming anywhere near my car gives me an acute attack of the willies and heebie jeebies!

I wouldn't pick an '11 plate Jag XJ as my practice car

Yeh folks when you spend hours detailing your pride + joy, stand back and admire all you can see is stone chips not the great work you've done.

 

It really must be a mind over matter thing, the "joys" of driving Ehh . Knowing my luck i would take my car to the

body shop to get the bonnet sprayed, call to collect the car drive home and get a stone chip on the bonnet FFS. Where do ya stop.?

Me neither, Mark!