Following my trip to Scotland & back I've found a couple of deep chips in the paint on the bonnet & on the offside door under the mirror mounting. The paint also seems to scuff easily. Is this peculiar to Silver Leaf or common to all Citigo's? Eight years of Hyundai did not produce similar chipping . . .

 

I don't have any in 2 years.

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My bonnet has three stone chips. The passenger door also got the supermarket Pratt ding. The paint does appear soft.

Is it any softer than any paint now days? Can't say I've had an issue with stone chips in my 2 years and 17k (mainly town car). But I would agree that the paint is soft and easy to mark.

My bonnet has three stone chips. The passenger door also got the supermarket Pratt ding. The paint does appear soft.

What gets me about those damn supermarket trolleys is ,if they can afford to spend £250+ each ,buying them,then why can't the supermarkets spend an extra £5 per trolley and put a rubberised bumper strip round each one??

 

 Any supermarket chiefs out there ?  You can have that idea for free.

Door opened on next car, bang, on mine. They couldn't understand why I was upset even though my paint damaged. They left and apparently their car also suffered damage.

People think it's only a car and so what. No respect.

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I've got a 2.5 y/o Toyota with 20k on the clock, plenty of stone chips and scratches around where you grab the door handle, also a 15+ y/o Volvo with 160k on the clock, less stone chips, so I reckon the newer paints aren't as good.

Is it because the new paint is water based as opposed to the old cellulose paint/two pack?

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Probably doesn't help that current small car design tropes seem to favour a blunter-shaped front-end that presents a larger cross-section for chips.

Edited 14 April, 201511 yr by ettlz

Probably a bit of both, in my case the Toyota has a flatter nose than the Volvo.

I had the front of my Citigo, headlamps, fog lamps, door sills, mirror caps and boot lip covered with Ventureshield protective film.  40,000 miles and no chips.

Unless you know it's there its almost undetectable.

See my gallery for pics. 

It looks good, I take it basically its a clear wrap?, how much did it cost if you don't mind me asking?, also like your rear sunshades.

Can't recall the exact price but less than £300 for sure. Yes, its a clear wrap using 3M film.  UV neutral so no worries of paintwork fading at different rates, and you treat it just like paint re washing and waxing. 

The sunblinds are great, giving lots of shade and privacy, and they clipped in with no tools in about 5 mins. Didn't take more than a couple of days to train my brain to see past them either!