Bloody stone chips

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Ive just got loads of stone chips on the front of my quartz S2.

Does anyone have any tips for sorting them out i.e. Lotus touch up paint?

Any advice would be good.

Thanks

[Davey S2]

Yes dont bother. Stonechips are a fact of life on Elises so just think of them as battlescars.

I have armourfend on mine which has been excellent but there is no point putting on anything other than a perfect clam.

If they really bother you wait until your car looks like its been peppered with buckshot then get it resprayed and armourfended.

[gooby]

Lotus paint is shockingly bad. I covered my stone chips using a touch up pen but it got to the point where I had basically painted the front of the clam with a couple of touch up pens.

The respray should be a lot more durable (I hope)

[minidiva]

gooby said:

The respray should be a lot more durable (I hope)

Durable enough to deflect a wild animal?

sorry, someone had to say it..please forgive me

[Davey S2]

gooby said:

Lotus paint is shockingly bad. The respray should be a lot more durable (I hope)

No it wont. The paint is just soft as it has to flex a lot more on lightweight fibreglass clams.

[gooby]

minidiva said:

gooby said: The respray should be a lot more durable (I hope) Durable enough to deflect a wild animal? sorry, someone had to say it..please forgive me

May have smashed the clam but the it didnt scratch the paint!

[jfrf]

Davey S2 said:

gooby said: Lotus paint is shockingly bad. The respray should be a lot more durable (I hope) No it wont. The paint is just soft as it has to flex a lot more on lightweight fibreglass clams.

one of the professional spray painters on seloc recently stated that he could do a front end repair spray that would be much more durable than the the OEM finish. he mentioned a couple of examples where customers only had a couple of chips, 2 years after his respray.

at the end of the day this is probably the best bet


>> Edited by jfrf on Thursday 2nd March 19:30

[Janitor]

Humm... I noticed four chips on mine today... only got it yesterday!

80 miles and there they are. In all honesty, I'm not stupidly concerned because it's going to happen, that's a basic fact. I'd rather keep £500 Armourfend cash to contribute to respray of bad bits in time - at least it won't look shrink-wrapped!

Read about some excellent touch up pens recently (not Halfrauds specials) so will get paint code, have a few imported and happily live with the inevitability of it all

[zeb]

Is £500 about the going rate to armourfend the lotus?

[gooby]

zeb said:

Is £500 about the going rate to armourfend the lotus?

Far More. It is 485 for the front clam (under the swage line) and sills.

[zeb]

ok...how much is it to armourfend the whole car then?

[gooby]

zeb said:

ok...how much is it to armourfend the whole car then?

Didnt get to ask that question, I was too busy choking, then mopping up my tea!