Stone chip no.1  :'(

 

 

I knew it wouldn't last.

 

I'll be okay.... in a minute [sniff].

 

If only it'd been a couple of cm's up or down 

 

Gaz

Share your sadness, hit a pothole last night. Split my tyre ballpark £150 for a new one, only been on since end of June.

Hopefully you'll be able to touch it up easily.

Yeah, I know I'm being prissy and it'll touch up fairly easy.

 

Seem to remember George saying to use a cocktail stick instead of a paintbrush on small ones like this.

 

Gaz

I use a very fine modelling brush.

Ouch! that's a real belter.

 

Take your time on the touch up; perhaps bring it up slowly with a few layers as well. 

ouch

that's sort of stuff bring tears in my eyes.

Share your sadness, hit a pothole last night. Split my tyre ballpark £150 for a new one, only been on since end of June.

Hopefully you'll be able to touch it up easily.

Aren't the local councils supposed to pay for that?? (For failing to maintain the roads - if so, ours would be bankrupt ten times over)

The council only has to pay if you can prove that they knew about the pot hole and had enough time to fix it.....they have different repair times for different depths of holes on certain roads. ie:

100mm deep hole half a meter across on an A road = emergency repair within hours.

Same hole on a residential road maybe a week or two.

You can find the criteria on the councils websites.

Mate it happens. My Carbon Grey GTD at two weeks old picked up a series of down to primer chips from something flicking up at it on the drivers rear arch....then not long afterwards in one of those "why did I do that" moments I drove through a puddle that turned out to be almost 1/2 ft deep and ground it out both going in and coming back out again....thankfully the inly notable damage being a light scratch on the underneath of one of my exhaust tips.

Cars dont stay new long no matter how well you try care for them. Mine is a company car so the emotional attachment isnt quite what it would be if I owned it myself...I got really annoyed both times though but the words "its only a piece of metal" do help ground me :-)

That's what I used to say....it's only a bit of tin, not flesh and bone. Still irritates like crazy though !!

Mate it happens.

 

Yeah I know, and once it's properly peppered I dare say I'll be totally disaffected by them.

 

In the world we're in with all the atrocious stuff going on, it's quite nice to moan about something so minor and trivial as my cars first stone chip.

 

Think I'll go get the Revo stage 1 map now to cheer me up     :yes:

 

Gaz

 

PS:  A bit of good luck this morning.  My Del Sol's in for its MOT on Tuesday, so I've just done its annual headlight polish (toothpaste) to clear the yellowing, and put a new wiper on the driver's side.  Was about to go buy one, then remembered I'd bought some for the Superb when Halfords were doing two for a fiver.  And they're the same size 

Toothpaste for lights ! I reckon that may just make it worse and worse as its not a particularly fine abrasive is it!

The reason that they go yellowish again apparently is lack of oils and because you just aren't polishing them fine enough to remove all the marks.

When you polish them the oils in the car polish (that transfer the abrasive material around) will stay for a while which is why they seem to only temporarily "disappear" but in no time at all will go back to losing the oils that "fill out" the scratches.

So just oil your headlights instead

 

Back on topic, In my opinion about the pain of damage, I'd say only buy used / nearly new as its already got a bit of tarnishing on it so you don't feel quite so bad (within reason).

 

Felt like quite a tit making quite a mess of one alloy and one less so kerbing with my fairly recent car purchase, but just sorted it out myself.

The wheels had been ferbed up before I had it anyway, that sort of thing does take some of the sting out of it.

 

Its still a very, very nice car ( for instance no swirls on paint unlike my Fabia !) but not to the degree of OCD about its condition.

Edited 7 December, 201510 yr by vRSAnt

I believe most plastic headlamp clusters have a form of lacquer on them that breaks down over a period of time causing the yellowing.

Cars with headlamp washers where poor quality/overly concentrated screenwash is used can cause the problem sooner.

Its recommended you microfibre towel dry your lamps after washing but ive always used a clean leather and never had a problem....thougg ive typically never owned a car long enough to experience headlamp yellowing.