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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: matchboy on 10 April 2010, 09:21
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morning knowledgeable ones, i've got two noticeable chips on the side of my car ( :angry:), where is the best place for me to get some paint to touch it up? can i just go into my stealer and get a little pot of deep black pearl?! thanks in advance! :smiley:
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You can buy paint pens from your dealer, not the cheapest but they do seem to match better than helfrauds and aftermarket ones. I got one for mine the other day.
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I got one for mine the other day.
You're lucky, VW still haven't produced a carbon grey touch up kit :angry:
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You can buy paint pens from your dealer, not the cheapest but they do seem to match better than helfrauds and aftermarket ones. I got one for mine the other day.
Are you sliding the pens down the side of your A-frame?! :wink:
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cool, ta i'll nip in there at some point this weekend. fooking annoying, my last gti had 36k miles and not a single chip, this one has two massive chips after 7k miles :angry:
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You can buy paint pens from your dealer, not the cheapest but they do seem to match better than helfrauds and aftermarket ones. I got one for mine the other day.
Are you sliding the pens down the side of your A-frame?! :wink:
I may do yet
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cool, ta i'll nip in there at some point this weekend. fooking annoying, my last gti had 36k miles and not a single chip, this one has two massive chips after 7k miles :angry:
You've got chips, I've got 3 small depressions, Snoops has premuturely greyed .. Our cars are getting old! :grin:
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cool, ta i'll nip in there at some point this weekend. fooking annoying, my last gti had 36k miles and not a single chip, this one has two massive chips after 7k miles :angry:
You've got chips, I've got 3 small depressions, Snoops has premuturely greyed .. Our cars are getting old! :grin:
My little silver lady had got 3 stone chips on the bonnet already in just under a month... Bl**dy holes in the roads around my way are still a joke.. I've always been paranoid about touch up pens as they can make the bonnet look worse than leaving the stone chips sometimes. Reckon I'll have to do something though- urgh !!
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I was going to make a bad joke about removing the chips from your bonnet as soon as possible - otherwise you'll end up with seagull footprints all over your bonnet...
But its too lame, so I won't bother :wink:
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If you tailgate then you end up with loads of stone chips!!
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If you tailgate then you end up with loads of stone chips!!
And that my dears is the truth. :smiley:
Stop tailgating you demon drivers.
or
Make sure you are behind a vehicle with mudflaps.
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I think it's more to do with the terrible state of the roads.
I've had a few stone chips and a cracked windscreen, I don't tailgate.
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I think it's more to do with the terrible state of the roads.
I've had a few stone chips and a cracked windscreen, I don't tailgate.
This calls for cling film!
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I try and not tailgate either and my bonnet is absolutely covered.
I have also noticed 2 on the drivers wheel arch :sad:
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I try and not tailgate either and my bonnet is absolutely covered.
I have also noticed 2 on the drivers wheel arch :sad:
So sorry.
So bloody annoying.
What the hell are we do do? Our poxy roads are the worst in Europe now. The pot holes are enormous. Everyday on my way to work, I avoid a total of 14 on a 7 mile journey through Central London. The buggers are getting bigger and deeper by the day. :angry:
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I know how you feel. I got a nasty nick in the front bumper during the drive home from the dealers, and with bumpers being plastic, the stone actually makes an indentation in the plastic. I also have a couple of stone chips on the bonnet, and noticed today a little scrape on the back bumper, probably caused by a stone.
I have come to the conclusion that however much you want to keep a car perfect, it's impossible.
I bought a touch up stick the other week and have done my best, but it's not fantastic. *sigh*
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I'm not saying its all down to tailgaiting? But it does help if you give yourself some space from the dreaded lorries, even motorbikes throw up big stones. I have one already on the front bumper, and i'm P***** about it!! Its very difficult to totaly avoid them!! :sick:
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I think it's more to do with the terrible state of the roads.
I've had a few stone chips and a cracked windscreen, I don't tailgate.
You can't get a cracked windscreen and bonnet chips from bad roads if there's nothing driving in front of you [on the sills and doors maybe]
What I mean is, the stones can't fly up then overtake the car and hit the bonnet/windscreen can they? Surely all the stones will hit aft of the front wheels?
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But i reckon stones can also fly off from cars and trucks on the opposite side of the road....