How to avoid Stone Chips?

[Alex_225]

You can by bonnet or bumper bras, they look a bit like a gimp mask for a car but they work.

Alternatively you can have the front wrapped in protective film although it's not cheap.

There's no way of avoiding them if you're using the car, plain and simple. Just today I was driving to a clients site and had left plenty of space between me and the car in front. Heard a loud crack noise and a stone has flung up and cracked my windscreen. I believe it'll be easy enough to repair but bloody annoying nonetheless!

[mwstewart]

Maintain a good distance from the car in front. The rest are inevitable.

[essexstu]

Get a life?

[MrBarry123]

mwstewart said:

Maintain a good distance from the car in front. The rest are inevitable.

This.

Efforts to avoid stone chips are in the same vein as trying to prevent tyre wear i.e. the only way to succeed is not to drive the car.

[mark.c]

Welshbeef said:

mark.c said:

Two options really, don't drive the car or have some kind of film applied. I have film on the front of my CSL and no chips so far. However, you can see its fitted and it's nearly as expensive as a repaint.

Haha

What will be will be it is just a car at the end of the day even if it's a DB4 or whatever.

You're right, what was I thinking...

[WJNB]

I empathise yet apply some acceptance to an inevitable. The advice to keep your distance is obvious & sensible. Upon encountering a re-surfaced stretch of road with those awful loose chippings flying everywhere & NOBODY adhering to the suggested 20mph limit if I have the time & know the area I have been known to do a U turn & find another route.
On a regular basis & with a VERY fine artiste brush & if necessary a magnifier attachment to my spectacles I touch in the chips, sometimes with several layers of paint to make a smooth a finish as possible. Beat that for analality?
Sometimes what I think is a chip is no more than a squashed insect.
IF I keep a car long enough & IF the chips are bad & IF it worries me than a localised re-spray is the answer. Modern-day paint technology means a decent match is possible & given the smallish area it don't break the bank.

[LDN]

Alex_225 said:

Alternatively you can have the front wrapped in protective film although it's not cheap.

How much, typically? I've seen vastly different amounts quoted for the film and then I have heard success AND horror stories with regard the removal of the film... any dead cert solutions?

[anonymous-user]

LotusOmega375D said:

Good drivers don't have a problem with stone chips. They are able to spot them being thrown up by the car in front and take the necessary avoiding action.

Stonechips are one of those inevitable things I struggle to give a st about, like wrinkles, grey hair, and the tide coming in. If you follow a reasonable distance behind you've done all you can, and even the tts in newly surfaced places throwing stones over your car are best treated as a force of nature and no energy expended fussing about such things.

Edited by dme123 on Saturday 18th June 19:15

[LDN]

As well; I've been told that this stuff is good... http://gen-3glasscoat.com/

Anyone tried it?

[Ali_T]

mwstewart said:

Maintain a good distance from the car in front. The rest are inevitable.

Most chips I have are on the offside front bumper and side. They're coming from opposite carriageway on my commute on A roads is the only reasonable conclusion I cam reach.

[g7jtk]

Get the car wrapped in clear vinyl

[robinessex]

I've found never exceeding 100mph helps! Amazing how many secondhand cars for sale on dealers forcourts without any stone chips though!!

[Blib]

Never had a stone chip on the front of my car. I reverse everywhere.

[Ozzie Osmond]

Blib said:

Never had a stone chip on the front of my car. I reverse everywhere.

Some people favour a clay bar.