Bloddy road gritters

[wibblebrain]

So drove up to Liverpool last night in my new (to me) car.

Having washed it recently I could only spot one stone chip on the front and that had been touched in almost invisibly.

But the road gritters were out in force on the M6 and M62 meaning I had to drive past 3 of the buggers.

Front bumper is now riddled with stone chips revealing the white primer underneath! bds!!

What can you do when faced with having to drive past these sodding things? Any way to minimise the damage?

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Willy Nilly said:

stop talking bks, they spread rock salt not granite and the spreaders don't even throw it out very fast. If they damaged your paint it is because the manufacturer used Crayola paint. If the roads weren't treated you'd be moaning about that too.

It's not powdered table salt! It's salt and grit and stones. So it does damage the paint, just like any stone and grit would do so,

I accept the need to salt the roads, the intention of the post was to see if anyone could volunteer a strategy for minimising the damage.

The frustration is that it wasn't really freezing, although I guess they were forecasting that it would be eventually that night. (It wasn't)

Not overtaking isn't really an option because they're travelling so slowly that it's unrealistic to consider sitting behind them for the length of time you would need to.

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swisstoni said:

Has the OP made sure that the marks he's seeing are not just bits of grit that just need washing off?

Yes.

It's a 2011 BMW 6 Series (Blue)

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Riley Blue said:

Were the gritters driving along lane one of the M6 and M62? If so, it ought to have been possible to overtake them whilst also passing a vehicle in lane two to shield from their output.

They drive down the middle lane to grit the 3 lanes as evenly as they can.

I did contemplate going onto the hard shoulder to overtake, so as to put as much disctance between me and the gritter, but concluded that wasn't likely to be acceptable practice..................

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Jim AK said:

wibblebrain said:

So drove up to Liverpool last night in my new (to me) car.

Having washed it recently I could only spot one stone chip on the front and that had been touched in almost invisibly.

But the road gritters were out in force on the M6 and M62 meaning I had to drive past 3 of the buggers.

Front bumper is now riddled with stone chips revealing the white primer underneath! bds!!

What can you do when faced with having to drive past these sodding things? Any way to minimise the damage?

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^^This^^

So much more inconvenient than a write off because they left the road untreated.

Someone's brain really is 'Wibbled'!!

Is it really so fking hard for people to understand that I'm not complaining about the fact that they are salting the roads, just seeking to see if anyone had some CONSTRUCTIVE suggestions for how to minimise any damage.

Really some of you fkers just seem to want to cause offence for the sake of it. Or perhaps you just don't have the intelligence to properly understand the original post.