Paint chips waaaay to easy

[controlo]

Just saw this. i seriously have a rock chip on my hatch. Right above the Mblem. Not one scratch and about 30 or forty chips. And no clear coat. right to metal, every one of them. They sent me touch up paint the third month or so! color does not match. Very strange.

thirty or fourty chips? sounds like your hatch got egged...

 

[ericrapp]

I drive alot of country roads and some punky flew past me on freshly stoned road I accidently turned down and as I tried to move off and flag him I hear the tickticktocktick of stones...etc. Really wanted to kill the kid, all tiny chips and no scratches or dents. sucks. alot.

 

[controlo]

I drive alot of country roads and some punky flew past me on freshly stoned road I accidently turned down and as I tried to move off and flag him I hear the tickticktocktick of stones...etc. Really wanted to kill the kid, all tiny chips and no scratches or dents. sucks. alot.

dang man. i'm sorry to hear about that.

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

Maybe i'm just getting older and less anal. Maybe it's because I can't spend as much time washing my car and detailing constantly, to obsess over the fact that all that hard work goes to waste when it rains, snows, or I get rock chips.

I've grown to accept that paint chips are just going to be a part of life. The MS3 particularly does sit on the rather low side of most cars, and it's just going to happen when you drive such a smaller, lower car.

Save your money on a clear bra, and put it towards a fresh new paint job in 5 years. The clear bras are just as annoying to keep clean and fresh, and don't forget that it won't stop a huge rock from ruining your bumper anyhow.

I share the passion of keeping your cars looking brilliantly clean, but it's one of those things only you will notice, so relax and worry about other things, like not getting pulled over for having too much fun!

 

[controlo]

Maybe i'm just getting older and less anal. Maybe it's because I can't spend as much time washing my car and detailing constantly, to obsess over the fact that all that hard work goes to waste when it rains, snows, or I get rock chips.

I've grown to accept that paint chips are just going to be a part of life. The MS3 particularly does sit on the rather low side of most cars, and it's just going to happen when you drive such a smaller, lower car.

Save your money on a clear bra, and put it towards a fresh new paint job in 5 years. The clear bras are just as annoying to keep clean and fresh, and don't forget that it won't stop a huge rock from ruining your bumper anyhow.

I share the passion of keeping your cars looking brilliantly clean, but it's one of those things only you will notice, so relax and worry about other things, like not getting pulled over for having too much fun!

i agree man. but it's easier said than done. haha.

i mean... the best you can do is try to prevent those things. things will still happen and it'll suck but atleast you tried. most things are out of your control.

my best advice is not to tailgate people and stay away from big trucks.

what's cool about this car is that people have a hard time cutting you off. all it takes is a downshift and they're not getting over.

 

[Spee-d3]

I have 3m clear bras on both my '04 cobra (5K miles) and MS3 (6K miles). Mostly interstate driving--zero chips on either cars. My miata had no clear bra and was peppered with chips within less than 5k miles in the same environment. Cost of clear bras (full coverage kits)= 500 bucks. Cost to properly paint match front end of miata= considerably more than 500 and its still not protected. Clear bras are more than worth their initial expense in my opinion. Just keeping the original factory paint intact for resale value outweighs their cost, again, my opinion.

 

[xxmikkoxx]

Its funny you bring this up because I'm have a problem with my Honda the clearcoat and cracking away and its 2 years old! lets not forget if you look at the front the wrong way the paint will chip as well lol...damn industry environmental standards!

Now that I think about it my PR5's paint was pretty solid...

About clear bras I had that installed on my Honda when I purchased it, I had to remove it in order to get the front end repainted since the clear is going, and I have to eat the cost to have it reinstalled. Its nice to have but I wont put it back I fear the clear will start to crack away even w/o it

Edit I hate my Honda....

 

[Boost'dBeta2]

Don't own a Mazda yet...but my wife drives an '08 CR-V, it was purchased new in November...has to be at least 20 chips in the front end of it...I have an '03 Tiburon...front end and hood look like a warzone quite possibly the worst paint in the hostory of mankind...I also have an '07 Acura TSX...which has fewer than both the others but a 3M clear bra was installed 2 months after I bought it. But on the TSX I have 3 or 4 large ones in the hood and even one on the roof where it meets the windshield.

 

[DaleNixon]

I used to obsessively check my old Protege5 for new chips after every drive. I'd cringe when I would wash the car and notice new paint chips. I was pretty skilled with the touchup paint.

I had rock chips everywhere, a shopping cart dent from wal-mart, a scrape down the passenger side door from a tree piece falling and sliding down my car 1 week after I got it, and a scraped rear fender from some jerk in a parking lot that required me to loosen a bolt and pop the fender out and bolt it back up.

I had the car looking perfect unless you got up close to survey the exterior blemishes.

Now that I have the MS3, I'm not going to worry as much. It was just a huge headache with the P5, and I drive on probably the worst roads in America.

The street my neighborhood connects to has been under construction for about 2 years (2 lane to 4 lane widening project). The interstate is constantly under construction. Big rigs flood our city streets and wreck havoc on the pavement.

I just can't win. Good thing I got the MS3 color I wanted least (True Red). I'll get it painted a sleeper color in a few years when it looks like the Bonnie & Clyde car!

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

I forgot to mention one thing too.

Even if Mazda covers the paint under warranty, most dealers' body shops will do a really half ass job, and you're right back in the same situation. And that paint job won't be anywhere near the strength of the factory paint. They arn't going to do an extra special job for you just because you had this problem, they'll just repaint that area and probably not even paint-match it.

My dad's been in auto body for the past 30 years. If anyone's allowed to paint my car, it's him. No one else can touch my car. He's absolutely amazing.

 

[Alexsered]

I want to paint my car matte black, I love the way that looks on cars, and no, i don't mean flat black, there is a difference there. The matte just looks sick and the flat looks cheap. But at least I don't have to worry about chips anymore, that stuff is durable.

 

[dominoy2k1]

I want to paint my car matte black, I love the way that looks on cars, and no, i don't mean flat black, there is a difference there. The matte just looks sick and the flat looks cheap. But at least I don't have to worry about chips anymore, that stuff is durable.

What's the difference? Both are the same dull color.

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

You mean the "murdered-out" look?

Rob Dyrdek's 07 Tahoe

 

[controlo]

I want to paint my car matte black, I love the way that looks on cars, and no, i don't mean flat black, there is a difference there. The matte just looks sick and the flat looks cheap. But at least I don't have to worry about chips anymore, that stuff is durable.

dude, YES!

 

[controlo]

What's the difference? Both are the same dull color.

dude, NO!

 

[controlo]

i'd love to do a matte silver paintjob on my car. i posted a thread on it awhile back.

all they'd have to do is colorsand the clear off and reclear with BASF satin clear, i THINK.

i love matte paint jobs.

 

[ericrapp]

Check out Brabus Bullitt with matte black option. They also have a silver option

 

[controlo]

i know that there are single stage matte paints. but there is also a matte clear or you can just add a flattening agent to a gloss clear. so if i just recleared my whole car, i could make it matte. i wonder how much that would run me...