moshlub

Other than wearing a bra ... how can I avoid rock chips on the front of my car. My car is black (recently clearcoated) and rock chips show up really really really well. Oh yeah ... I drive fast enough such that even bugs (well maybe not) causes chips too.

I don't want to put a bra or those clear plastic thingie-ma-bobbers (clear front-ends) on my car. Any bright ideas, i.e. extra coats of wax, some magical paint, etc, etc?

Lex Luthor

How bad could it be chipping? Are you confident in the quality of the prep and paint? I had my front bumper and bonnet painted about 7 months ago when I added the 2K parts, i've gotten maybe two small chips in that time.

P.S. - Pretty sure you'd have to be going ludicrous speed for a bug to chip your paint, but anything's possible, i've read that a tornado has been known to drive a blade of grass into a piece of steel.

moshlub

My paint job was done ... start of Feb 2002... and I like it much ... but since then I've put about 18k miles on it ... and I've got LOTS of really small chips. I was only kidding about the bug thing. Maybe it's just rocks ... I travel on average 85mph (oops! did I say 85? I really meant the speed limit).