Rock Chips!!!!

[B@tm@n]

My car is all in rock chips in the front and I dont know what to do. What can I do?

 

[Accumulator]

What I do is:



Live with most of them; consider touching up a few large ones; get the area in question repainted if I have a lot of chips and they bother me that much.

 

[imported_steveo3002]

What I do is:



Live with most of them; consider touching up a few large ones; get the area in question repainted if I have a lot of chips and they bother me that much.

yeah same here....touch in any bigger ones that may start to rust , live with the rest until its bad enough to repaint

 

[coupe]

Learn to live with them.

 

[Accumulator]

As I've posted many times before, years ago I read a magazine article about a famous car museum (forget which one...) wherein the curator, asked about the chips on some valuable cars, said: "Real cars have stone chips".

 

[coupe]

"Real cars have stone chips".

:werd:





Im proud of mine

 

[imported_bigfoot1]

As I've posted many times before, years ago I read a magazine article about a famous car museum (forget which one...) wherein the curator, asked about the chips on some valuable cars, said: "Real cars have stone chips".

And what about those "Garage Queens"? :think:

 

[coupe]

And what about those "Garage Queens"? :think:

What about them?

 

[BlueLibby04]

I dont have any on the front of my jeep. I guess you shouldnt tail gate? :2thumbs:

 

[^&04types]

its called no TAILGATING AND NO DRIVING ON MAJOR INTERSTATE HWYS LIKE GSP AND TURNPIKE.

 

[emaxxman]

its called no TAILGATING AND NO DRIVING ON MAJOR INTERSTATE HWYS LIKE GSP AND TURNPIKE.

You got that right homey!!!!! I'm a NJ boy too and driving any interstate (80, 287, 78), Garden State Parkway, or Turnpike in NJ is like parking your car in front of a kid with bb gun. Mine are so bad on my 98 Accord, I got a nose cover to hide them.

 

[captkirk2]

You got that right homey!!!!! I'm a NJ boy too and driving any interstate (80, 287, 78), Garden State Parkway, or Turnpike in NJ is like parking your car in front of a kid with bb gun. Mine are so bad on my 98 Accord, I got a nose cover to hide them.

Amen brothers, NJ the sand blast state

 

[BigAl3]

i have plenty of them and as long as there are debris, rocks, dirt, etc.. on the roads, it's going to happen sooner or later...

 

[imported_bigfoot1]

What about them?

They say real cars have rock chips, and garage queens may not have any at all... that's just probably a stupid comment from my part...



Joey...:werd:

 

[imported_bdornseif]

Amen brothers, NJ the sand blast state

Route 287 is the gravel spraying truck capitol of the world! :hairpull

 

[Heikes]

If they bother you that bad, do a search for rock ships. There was a How-To thread on here a while back about touching up and wetsanding rockchips. Good luck!

 

[Accumulator]

And what about those "Garage Queens"?

Im proud of mine [stone chips]

My garage queens have stone chips too Just not as many. Heh heh, the two on the hood of the XJS ('85, ~17K) bugged my painter so much that he touched them up without asking me and I read him the riot act over it...they were, to me, a "feature", mementos of an otherwise great afternoon in August of '86. To him they were merely jump-out-at-you flaws that should've been fixed 20 years ago



The '84 RX-7, with only ~24K has a few chips and the pampered S8 has some *nasty* ones from a big rock that got tossed across several lanes by a school bus. If you drive 'em at *all* you risk such stuff, so I guess it's a question of how one defines "garage queen".



Heh heh, the S8 was a true garage queen, only coming out for special occasions...and onone of those rare occasions I deered it Of all the cars it had to be that one, but at least it wasn't the Jag. The stone chips weren't all that bad by comparison, a friend joked that replacing the front clip was a pretty radical way of fixing the chip on the hood :chuckle: