Mk1 Focus RS stonechips

[Diablos-666]

Just come back from a 300miles round trip and noticed a couple of large stone chips on the wheel arch grrr

What's the best way to repair these? They are quite big, around half the size of your small finger nail

[neiljohnson]

Either a touch up pen from ford (a surprisingly good match) or a bodyshop im afraid. One of the biggest issues with the Rs is the paint is very soft
Is this on the rear arch?? if so it should have a clear protective cover over it to prevent stone chips.

[ALY77]

Armourfend kits are worth their weight in gold, which is good because they cost about their weight in gold too!

[Diablos-666]

Well, its no good to me now as the paintwork is already chipped

The stone chip was on my front right wheel arch. Really dont know how i got it there as i didnt think i was driving up anyones backside.

It might have been a motorbike taking off from the line or something?

[ALY77]

True but worth remembering once the arch is fixed and worth considering for the front end or it'll need painted every couple of years.

Typical Ford, come up with a good colour but as its so expensive to put on the cars you get a very thin coating. Mates Imp Blue Cossie is the same, thin as!

[Diablos-666]

How much would a full respray cost as i have quite a few stone chips on the rear wheel arches, the bonnet and the front bumber

Would £2k be realistic? Then maybe just spend a bit more on armourflex on the arches and bonnet?

[AMST09]

When my dad looked into armourfend for his noble it was horrendous prices...cheaper to get the front end resprayed rather than replacing the armourfend

I think its a bit pointless having armourfend, once its chipped it looks crap, will need replacing as often as your bumper needs spraying, and not a great difference in cost neither!

[neiljohnson]

I have the armourfend patches on the rear arches as they were oe and to be fair its done 2 years and still looks fine. Was @ £32 for the kit direct from fords and judgeing by the state of the arches after a year without it (had them painted before putting patches on) its done a good job