Soft Paint

[GSP]

My girlfriend has a Cooper D in Pepper White. Prior to that she had a One in Pepper White.

Both seem to be picking up no end of stone chips. It's a real pain the arse.

Does everyeone else suffer from this? She does do a lot of mileage, but I dont see this as any real excuse for excessive stone chips.

[fivesixseven8]

Wifey has an S in Astro black and it doesn't chip too badly. One of our cats is ruining it though. Once the weather is better I'll be getting it machine polished.

[GSP]

I have heard that metalic colours are also stronger/more chip resistant than the flat colours.

The road tar etc shows up so much on the Pepper White too.

It makes cleaning it quite upsetting lol.

I'll buy a chip pen and a claybar when the good weather comes.

[Accelebrate]

I picked up quite a big chip courtesy of the gritters on Friday night, first one worth mentioning in 20k though (Chilli red).

[Luke.]

Mine seems to be peppered with little chips at the front. But just noticed a nice chunky one on the front of the roof, where it's chipped the white. Will popping down to Halfords to get one of their white chip pens later.

[MX-5 Lazza]

Hang back a bit further from the car in front and you'll avoid most of those stone chips

[Luke.]

MX-5 Lazza said:

Hang back a bit further from the car in front and you'll avoid most of those stone chips

I've only had the car a week. Wasn't me. Honest.

[Luke.]

About to buy some Chipex. Anyone tried it?

[AndyParker]

Not something I've really suffered and I've got a black car so would really show...

Minis have generally hard paint when considering the relative hardness/softness of all cars paint