In the next month or so I want to freshen up the car by re-painting the front and rear bumpers and get rid of all those stone chips and bumps from other cars.

My dilemma is... should I paint the diffusor the same color as the body or not?

 

paintshop springs to mind, i say try it with red first

if you are doing the spraying yourself it would be easier to paint bumper and diffuser as no masking,

 

if someone else is spraying it, up to you

I say leave as it is because it's one less thing to worry about being chipped by stones

I'd say do it the same colour as your alloys

Do the same colours as the favia badge update press pictures... front spoiler in red, side moulds in red and red single stripe from badge to badge down the middle of the car :-)

Leave it. You'll get even more stone chips on that area, simply because it's closer to the road and in the firing line of stones spitting out of the tyres.

Just for comparison, after 11,000 miles in my fabia se with the standard bumper, iv got absolutely no stone chips in that area.

I dont think yours would be any more prone to them, would it?

Thanks guys for the ideas! Getting chips at the lower parts of the bumper is very rare. I don't have any in my case either so painting it will not prove problematic in the future.

The front though is a completely different matter - it is like a magnet for stones. 

Yep. Thats my experience too aha.

The front though is a completely different matter - it is like a magnet for stones. 

Someone been tailgating too much?

I haven't seen a single chip on my front bumper, plenty on the bonnet, but not on the bumper.

Paint it!

Someone been tailgating too much?

I haven't seen a single chip on my front bumper, plenty on the bonnet, but not on the bumper.

More down to the clowns in company cars that overtake on freshly resurfaced gravely roads and chip em all up.

But thats for a different thread perhaps haha.

There are some roads I frequently travel that whatever your distance and speed sooner or later will send rocks to your car. Especially after a rainy day, water moves plenty of rocks and next dry day you got more chances to get hit. Twice while waiting at traffic lights rocks hit my windscreen coming from the bridge above. Talk about ****ty luck.

Just a risk of motoring i guess. It cant really be helped, its just bloody annoying