Stone chips

clees · Post by **clees** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:07 am

Does anybody know the best way of getting rid of those S*@TTY stone chips??

andyg · Post by **andyg** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:30 pm

I have used Chips Away on mine, because its silver apparently they can only get it looking 70% to what it looked like originaly.

Basically they will do what you would do with the little painter but a v good job. On my car you can see where they patched up the marks but maybe they will do a better job on a red one.

My front bumper and the wings have quite a few stone chips and it gets on my nerves big time, the only way to fix them is to get the bumper re-sprayed.

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:45 pm

I used them when I had my 106 (which was Red) I had a BIG scratch from hitting a wall (don't ask

)

You wouldn't even know I'd have done it

andyg · Post by **andyg** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:12 pm

Stone chips are different from scratches though. The chips away guy did a scrape down my mates car, you couldn't tell either but with a stone chip you get a few spread around, only way to fix them 100% is to respray the whole bumper. Chips away is a good cheap alternative though. Cost you about 40 quid, a resprayed bumper is gonna be 200+.

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:02 pm

andyg wrote:Stone chips are different from scratches though. The chips away guy did a scrape down my mates car, you couldn't tell either but with a stone chip you get a few spread around, only way to fix them 100% is to respray the whole bumper. Chips away is a good cheap alternative though. Cost you about 40 quid, a resprayed bumper is gonna be 200+.

A minimum charge of about Â£135 they told me.

andyg · Post by **andyg** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:08 pm

Â£135 for a respray of the bumper?

Where abouts is this? I was getting quotes of around Â£200 for mine.

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:57 pm

Not for the whole bumper but Chips Away said they have a minimum charge of about Â£135 for repairs.

Not sure how much a full respray on the bumper would be.

andyg · Post by **andyg** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:31 pm

Ah right, the guy who did mine was doing my collegues the same day, (which cost about 100) so i think he did mine as an on the side thing.

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:19 pm

Cool, IMO the best bet if there's a lot of chips would be to get the whole bumper re-sprayed.