Author Topic: My first stonechip on the incredibly soft GTI's paintwork :(  (Read 6440 times)

Offline CraigW

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Re: My first stonechip on the incredibly soft GTI's paintwork :(
« Reply #20 on: 19 February 2014, 18:50 »
Must be quite a deep one so Craig. Bummer.
Or it could indeed be dirt/grit from the stone. Try polishing it...

Yeah but two very small chips right beside each other so shouldn't be too difficult to fill in hopefully  :smiley:. Famous last words

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Re: My first stonechip on the incredibly soft GTI's paintwork :(
« Reply #21 on: 19 February 2014, 19:41 »
I've had a couple of small chips on the front of the bonnet, easily touched up and I now can't see them.

Either the paint is better on the mk7 compared with the mk 6 or the ACC/city braking/warning lights and sounds are helping keep a good distance from the car in front.

My mk6 needed a front bumper/ bonnet respray after the first Winter, it looked like it had had several point blank blasts from a shot gun.

So far, so good.
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Offline Mk1Macca

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Re: My first stonechip on the incredibly soft GTI's paintwork :(
« Reply #22 on: 19 February 2014, 22:15 »
Noticed my first today during a wash. CSG and it's through to bare metal. Gutting as I'm super careful driving, avoiding everything I can and keeping silly distances behind things.

Hadn't even heard anything that sounded like a stone, so the paint must be super soft.