I got my first three hood chips a few months ago. Today, I washed my car and found 10 new chips (most very light, but some very large and deep).

I'm trying to protect the car as much as possible (always stay about 6-8 car lengths or more behind cars ahead of me on the interstate, etc). I don't really know what else to do minus using some products as shown in the link below:

http://www.sportcompactonly.com/Scio...4347_v-195.htm

How many of your are experiencing a lot of hood chipping? Anyone found a good preventive product for this? I kinda wish there were Bugflectors for the tc...but I guess they don't exist because of the fitting between the hood and bumper.

Breaks my heart everytime I find a new chip.

 

there are clear bras that you can use to protect the vehicle.. but they usually cost alot to install.

 

yeah i've had my tC for a couple years now... same problem. I tried a bra for a while, but it made the car look like ____. So now when there are too many hood chips, CF here i come

 

yeah...i think its gonna take me a day with a brush, toothpick, and touch-up paint to "fix" the chips. and then, i'll get a million more chips and get even more ____ed.

 

yup yup that happened to me too
suddenly i got more than 10 rock chips
then i tried to use touch up paint, and messed it up cuz i used thick brush that came with it...
but i recently replaced hood so its all good now.. (for now)

 

Read carefully

SHOW hood....lol

 

I am Lucky...I dont have to travel on the Freeway daily..only on weekends!...I have had mine for a year now...Only a few micro sized chips!*knock on wood*

 

blame the crappy paint thats notorious with our cars

 

i have a million zillion rock chips on my car, not just my hood.

ive only had it for about 6 months!! too many long drives!

but seriously, its a car, stuff like that happens, i can care less.

 

I put a full clear bra on the front of my car, and a magnetic bra on the hood in addition to the clear bra.

But I still got a couple of minor rock chips on the sides of my car (big trucks speeding by on the freeways). It's inevitable to get rock chips on a daily driver, so it doesn' t bother me.

 

That's the biggest problem with our tC's. Cheap Paint. Here's a great story. I had some neighborhood kids throw eggs at a bunch of cars one night, I didn't get to it fast enough, it dried, when I scrubbed for hours to get it off it tore the paint off at every single spot the egg drips were. Now I no paint in a perfect splatter pattern on the side of the hood and quarter panel. I know it's going to be terribly expensive to fix so I don't know what to do.

 

I have this same problem, egg might be our cars wort enemy.

 

maybe its an age & location thing? ;)

 

No offense, but anytime you "scrub the paint" you're going to kill it...

It has nothing to do with our paint. Any car is going to take damage from a devastating egg hit. The question is how the egg shattered over the paint, whether shards of the shell "stabbed" the clear coat, etc.

Using wax or sealant on the paint can significantly ease removal of contaminants... but eggs are pretty bad, you have to get to them quickly

 

My tC is over two years old, almost 50K miles - my hood and front bumper look like they've been sandblasted. Horrible. Granted, I commute almost 100 highway miles a day, but my GMC Jimmy that I drove the same route for 5 years / 140K miles still looks great in comparison. There have been other threads about it - unfortunate, but the paint sucks.

 

been thinking about getting a small bottle of touch up paint for a scratch i got from something falling off of a truck on the freeway. But then thinking about it again it might make it look worse, what do yall think.....





its almost like a hairline scratch. Not deep at all?

 

run your nail gently over it...is it through the clearcoat? ask duswlo for paint advice.

paint is not "cheap" there's just no lead in it like the older cars...can't wait till the day we all have ceramic paints *sigh*,

 

Ouchie!! I be SO angry!!

I be ____ed off if that happen to mine...

 

i was, but didnt know it caused this? Doesnt bother me TOO much but its still does.

 

I wouldn't use touch up paint on that. Try using Scratch-X or anything else to reduce how visible it is; touch up would probably make it stand out more.