Can hail leave small chips?

[imported_truzoom]

I kept thinking I had tree sap on my windshield because everytime I drove into direct sunlight, I`d see lots of speckles all over the glass, but today I cleaned the outside of the windshield with full strength APC, claybar`ed, followed by IG, and then IG on the inside, and finally used compressed air to blow off any dust.



But of course the speckles were still there. I even tried to scratch one off with my fingernail, but nothing happened.



I can remember driving through a pretty bad pea-sized hail storm a few months ago, but the hail was pretty smooth when I picked one up. The thing that gets to me is, if this happened to glass which is fairly hard, then what about my paint!









This is probably just a petty issue, but I`d like to get some input as to whether or not hail can do this, because it could just be baked on sap.

[tguil]

It could be chips from sand and gravel. Probably not hail.



Tom

[imported_Dave Holmes]

Just what tquil says.

My car has probably thousands. Nothing improves them. And looking at them close, I can tell some are bigger than others, and are definitely little chips in the glass. Best solution for me would be new glass.



Dave

[stevet]

Yeah it sounds like pitting from rocks. No way hail will damage glass but leave the paint untouched.

[White95Max]

Yes those little specks are caused by tiny stones and sand grains that hit your car while you`re driving. Just one more reason to have a long following distance.