Paint rash....
Discussion
I looked at a noble in the US with 3000 miles on it....and I was amazed at the number of chips from stones. I drive 90 miles/day on bad highways and maybe have 1-2 on my driver in 22,000. This car looked liked it trailer a gravel hauler. Additionally some of the panels were very hazy. The car was red.
Questions: Is this car a magnet to debris? What do others cars look like afer driving routinely? As anyone used protective film (I have this on the front of the rear fenders on my cobra and works well).
I don't intend on using the noble as a driver...but this amount of damage after so few miles would drive me nuts.
Thanks!
Jeff
Questions: Is this car a magnet to debris? What do others cars look like afer driving routinely? As anyone used protective film (I have this on the front of the rear fenders on my cobra and works well).
I don't intend on using the noble as a driver...but this amount of damage after so few miles would drive me nuts.
Thanks!
Jeff
Any GRP car suffers from the recent legislation on paints.
In order to save the world from global warming, car paints for some years have had to move away from being "oil" based to "water" based. Unfortunatly this seems to have the downside that the paint doesn't "stick" as well as it does to metal.
Couple this with the fact that Noble is a bit "low" at the front and has a lot of complex surfaces and you get the problem you see.
Paint chips are therefore very much a part of life of a GRP car with low front end.
Some people fit armourfend which will lessen the effect, but sods law says that you'll get big chips where it isn't. Others (like me) just respray the front every few years (£300-500) which works out about the same as the armourfend over a 3 year period.
If you can you can try and find a paint shop that will respray it using "sticky" paint, but they shouldn't really do it.
J
In order to save the world from global warming, car paints for some years have had to move away from being "oil" based to "water" based. Unfortunatly this seems to have the downside that the paint doesn't "stick" as well as it does to metal.
Couple this with the fact that Noble is a bit "low" at the front and has a lot of complex surfaces and you get the problem you see.
Paint chips are therefore very much a part of life of a GRP car with low front end.
Some people fit armourfend which will lessen the effect, but sods law says that you'll get big chips where it isn't. Others (like me) just respray the front every few years (£300-500) which works out about the same as the armourfend over a 3 year period.
If you can you can try and find a paint shop that will respray it using "sticky" paint, but they shouldn't really do it.
J
jeffgrice said:
I looked at a noble in the US with 3000 miles on it....and I was amazed at the number of chips from stones. I drive 90 miles/day on bad highways and maybe have 1-2 on my driver in 22,000. This car looked liked it trailer a gravel hauler. Additionally some of the panels were very hazy. The car was red.
Questions: Is this car a magnet to debris? What do others cars look like afer driving routinely? As anyone used protective film (I have this on the front of the rear fenders on my cobra and works well).
I don't intend on using the noble as a driver...but this amount of damage after so few miles would drive me nuts.
Thanks!
Jeff
Jeff,
Where are you in Michigan? The guy that does the Armourfend for 1g is in Wixom, MI. I had him do mine after the car was delivered to me and like you I will still be careful when on the freeway and will avoid those gravel-haulers out there like the plague. If you want to see what it looks like on mine (I'm in Northville), give me a shout. I had the complete package done on mine. I didn't make it to Autorama this year, but my son told me about the red one there. He said it was pretty rough. It could be that the car was tracked. That would also expose it to more debris at high speed.
Craig
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