Waxed my new (red) Furby over the w/e and was very surprised at the number of stone chips in only 2,000 miles. More chips than my last car (Ford Focus) had in 80,000 miles! Anyone else have a similar concern? Is it evidence of poor paint?

I've just ticked over 2000 miles myself and no stone chips so far (Black Magic metallic) but then I've coated the front bumper and leading edge of the bonnet with Zymol (titanium) wax.

If you're going to Brunters I'll bring my kit along and give yours a coat or two.

Cheers Des! Maybe the lacquer is thicker on the metallic finishes?

It probably is, but then you have just been unlucky. Still a touch up pen should sort out the problematic areas, then good few coats of wax should help out.

Cheers Des! Maybe the lacquer is thicker on the metallic finishes?

Aren't all Furby vRS paint finiahes Metallic?

IMHO it depends on the type of tarmac you drive on. Some areas use the poured tar and put chips over it and it is terrible for stone chips. Some however use surfaces like Masterphalt-P!

surely the amount of chips depends where you drive?

Anyway i've done 1500 miles in my red furby vrs, and have a couple of chips, but nothing of any concern. I've coated my bodywork with a wax called Silver Seal which is supposed to protect the paintwork for 3 years. Probably not from stonechips though.

My Octy has done about 80K miles and only has a few stone chips

Try a touch up stick.

I have found that all my Skoda's (4 cars all different colours) chip and scratch more easily than other makes of car that I have owned. Bad though that is they also seem much more resistant to rust, which is good.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but how easy are these touch up pens to use? Anyone got any tried and tested techniques to stop the touch ups looking like a complete dogs dinner?

don't bother with the Skoda dealers touch up set. IIRC they cost about