Stone Chips...

[Spanky]

I am to be getting a LCR in 6 weeks but I am still stuck on colour I have narrowed it down to Ovni Yellow or Red (Flash or Emocion) and still can’t decide. I have decided that stone chips will decide my colour.

Basically, any Yellow or Red LCR (or others for that matter) owners that do a bit of motorway driving, which colour best masks stone chips? My current car is black, and I know that doesn’t hide them, it puts a big sign up saying “Look here, stone chips!!”

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[fluffy01016]

Red's not brilliant either I'm afraid

 

[slimjim]

No color is "good" for stone chips....

Not sure if you could get some of that protective film stuff? Might be worht the investment?

I do 80 miles a day on the motorway. I have accepted that every 8 months or so £100 goes on a bonnet respray.


Although recently as my trip is M54, M6, M5... the crawling speeds dont produce stone chips ... which is a good thing... but 3-4 hours a day commuting is a BAAAAAD thing

 

[Spanky]

No color is "good" for stone chips....

I appreciate that, but some colours must be better than others for masking chips.

But, like you say, a bonnet respray doesn't cost the earth, so may be a good option.

Doesn't help me choose the colour though

 

[slimjim]

I appreciate that, but some colours must be better than others for masking chips.

But, like you say, a bonnet respray doesn't cost the earth, so may be a good option.

Doesn't help me choose the colour though

Would have to be black for me ... I HATE red cars ANY car looks better in a different colour to red.... IMHO...

If you had managed to keep your current black car clean, then go for black.

UNLESS you can get Extreme Blue ... !

 

[stpete]

My yellow didnt look too bad after 30k ish any polish seems to leave a white residue in chip so yellow being light hides them quite well! I loved my OVNI LCR yellow is easy to find in carpark and people dont seem to pull out as often as they do now I have a Black one!

 

[Pabs]

i am gonna get my dents sorted in the new year, and hopefully see if i can get rid of some of the bigger stone chips as well.

Blooming annoying, but suppose thats what comes of driving on British roads

 

[mmfb]

Went to look at a yellow LCR before buying a black one, it had done 50k and had a lot of marks from shopping trolleys to stone chips.

I felt that they showed up more on the yellow than on the black.

Chipsticks are available for a cheap temporary & cosmetic way of masking the chips, I found that on the smaller chips on my black, the chipstick masked the worst of it and they are no longer so noticable.

Not sure how the yellow one would look after a chipsticking.

 

[kiwi_cordy]

the lighter the colour the better for chips as its closer to the grey/white primer underneath.

 

[The new loon]

Ovni is good for masking the colour as is close to the primer colour, but draw back to this colour is that there are a lot of variants to this colour so quite difficult for bodyshops to match colour edge to edge.

 

[slinger]

i've had two LCRs first being ovni and the stone chips show up white which aren't too bad really touching up with a very fine artist brush hides them well, both flash red [forget the darker emocian] and ovni yellow look great polished and cleaned but show any dirt really quickly, especially the ovni i had

.... i now have a platinum grey LCR and it's absolutely gorgeous and doesn't show up dirt too much - great especially if you are doing m/way driving! i really would recommend you see all colours before buying!!!!

 

[CupraUK]

I do about 450 motorway miles per week and I've not noticed any stone chips, so either:

a) Silver does not show them up
b) I don't have any

If I ever washed the car I may find out, but I have no plans at present to do so.

 

[slinger]

i guess i have some car cleaning disorder!!! i'm like malcolm in the lee evans sketch "i love to clean!!!!"

 

[CupraUK]

Drive fast when its raining..... job done.

Actually... there's a gap in the market, that stuff that pilkinton put on their windows that means that it cleans them when rain passes over it. Put it in car lacquire.