Stone chips and low miles

[Urowho]

I've been looking at some low mileage 981s, some, despite being less than a year old and very low mileage seem to have an inordinate number of stone chips.

I've already got a 987s and it is a stone chip magnet but I did a search for porsche mileage 'correction' and quite a few chaps on the internet are offering to help out on the mileage front. I can see a serious financial driver for someone who has a car, yet to be serviced or MOT'd do suddenly find they've had an error with their mileage and reset it back to 6995 or so.

Anyone else noticed this or suspicious?

[Porsche911R]

I picked up a stone chip after the drive home from the dealers in 4 miles.

That's life, people also follow to close and hence you see cars with more than average chips these days as bad roads and tailgaters = stone chips.

[Gorsh]

Urowho said:

I've been looking at some low mileage 981s, some, despite being less than a year old and very low mileage seem to have an inordinate number of stone chips.

I've already got a 987s and it is a stone chip magnet but I did a search for porsche mileage 'correction' and quite a few chaps on the internet are offering to help out on the mileage front. I can see a serious financial driver for someone who has a car, yet to be serviced or MOT'd do suddenly find they've had an error with their mileage and reset it back to 6995 or so.

Anyone else noticed this or suspicious?

My BGTS has done only 5.5k miles (it's almost a year old). It has several stone chips, some on the paint and even a couple on the windscreen. I blame it on the methods used to maintain UK roads with 'grit' or chippings', even months later they get flicked up by passing vehicles.

Not sure what you're even doing thinking about mileage 'correction', as a responsible car owner the thought has never entered my mind, and I sincerely hope anyone doing it gets caught.

[Urowho]

I hope they get caught too! It just struck me as suspicious and then I went looking. Seems like its an increasing problem again. If the impact on valuation weren't bad enough its how it knocks the service schedule out of wack, risking serious damage or shortened life overall that's the real nightmare.

[Krobar]

I'm at 11K and 1 year old and have plenty of chips on the front. I would expect a dealer to fix chips before sale but maybe that expectation is unreasonable (?).