Dan-

im sure everybody (THAT CARES) understands my upset but my local road to work has been resurfaced yesterday night, this morning on the way to work 7:30 i had no choice but go that way there was all lose stone covering the road advised speed limit says 20 to for a reason!! all i had was a**holes overtaking me at what seemed like well over the 60 speed limit and showering my car in stone, never used my horn and as many hand gestures at the same time in my life, my car did have some chips on it before but now it looks like a f**king chalk board!





as you can tell im rather annoyed, i dont even want to wash the rest of it i feel it looks that bad! rather it stays out of site till i can get it repainted! :'(

DarrenSTI

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Oh no, sorry to see this damage mate.
roads on my route to work have been re-serfaced this way, and I cringe as you hear the stone pinging off the underside, and thats at 15mph, Have the mud flaps fitted so probabley helps keep the stones off the side panels.....

But have never been over taken like you had, sure they thought I can get one over a Impreza here, most people have the same road sence as I do, and take it easy.

Dan-

im not a resurfacer but surly is there no machine that can follow another and collect the lose stones, im glad of the mud flaps to they do help but i think you might be right tbh just upsetting i found an even worse chip now :'(

Dan-

Thermalp4

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Exactly the same happened before I moved house.

The reason the roads are like that is because they are saving money.

One of the reason why I would never consider a big respray of bonnet/front bumper unless 100% required because it will end up the same in a matter of days around here.

tubbytommy

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i shouldnt worry its only a car, only way to stop stone chips is not to drive it

JonMc

iTrader: (51)

I've got an inch long gouge on the bonnet lined up nicely with a chipped windscreen after my route to work was resurfaced with loose stones - what is more annoying is that they spread it over an already crap surface and don't even bother to sort the potholes, I feel your pain

CREWJ

I can sympathise with you. That's why I just keep up with the speed of traffic on those roads keeping a safe distance.

Dan-

i agree what you say but i spend all my cash and all my spare time looking after my pride and joy and hobby don't know why others cant appreciate other people things just cos they couldn't care

Dan-

its the potholes that get me raging!! last year in my 206 i hit a huge 1 i got pics and evidence, smashed both shocks, damaged 2 wheels, wishbone, driveshaft and track rods! cost me in excess of £1600 to put right and the goverment gave me nothing :@, they said the pothole had been repaired when they went to investigate, yeah because it took you 6 weeks not surprised ill try dig the photo out

Dan-

imaging driving down a dark country at about 40-50mph completely unlit then all of a sudden you see this infront of you! stamped on the anchors as hard as i could but still hit it at about 30 BAM! solid shock though the car, stopped immediately obviously checked the car and amost cryed at the amount of damage caused!

Dan-

if i had been on a bike i would not be here today

Dan_STI

iTrader: (1)

its sickening mate, dont know how they get away with it. Especially when we pay so much for road tax etc.... then i find out the council round here underspent by £1m last year....

cobra_mark

I had my wagon shotgun sprayed with resurfacing chips a month or so ago by a kindly soul on a big motorcycle. When I gave him the horn and indicated my displeasure he simply put his back wheel in the loose stuff and gave the front of my car a machine gunning, a total pr**k.

Hope you can get it sorted it took me 3 hours lots of patience and touch up paint to get rid of the worst chips.

Dan-

underspent!! thats ridiculous

Dan-

that would have driven my beyond madness someone doing that!! the only problem i have with touch up pens i know there something wrong with the paint and that just bugs me, im a danger to myself on how i like things to look

ScoobySteve69

iTrader: (13)

They useless tw@ts recently "resurfaced" a section of road to my girlfriends house in this exact same way and people just don`t take any notice of the speed restrictions. No doubt I picked up a few extra stone chips!

tubbytommy

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be careful where you drive

Dan-

seems the only way to stop it must be to go with a broom and sweep the lose stuff up yourself!

Dan-

thats pretty much perfect! not fair aha

tubbytommy

iTrader: (20)

if yours is an everyday car then you wont avoid the stone damage so i wouldnt worry, as winter is coming up the salt etc will only cause more damage, wait until spring and get it repainted

Carlh

Put a claim in against the council. Roads should be fit for purpose and they arent.

irishscoobysti

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road sweeper they can hoover them up..but they wont use one cheap *******s..as for the tar ur grannys treakle cake has more durability that that watered down sh ite there using..most of it on a warm day endss up on the side of our cars..
hhhmmm mw wonders, the boiling point of tar is a couple of hundred degrees, pretty hot anyways, never seems to bubble n boil in 40-50 degrees heat 16hrs a day abroad..we get 20 degree day for 4/5 hrs tars on the top????weird..

KAS35RSTI

iTrader: (73)

2000 wet & dry & TCUT (the purple bottle) That should fix it as long as they arent deep!

kez wrx

That makes me sick,had the same done after my new paint job.some N*B over taking with loose chipping on the surface with a 20mph limit....TW@Ts.

Dan-

im to confident enough to go at my main pannels with finishing paper "/ ill happily paint anything other than what people will point out sounds abit weird probs

Dan-

i think the only way round is to drive your car under its car cover (if you have 1) and cut the screen out so u can see