Show us your rock chips!

[2017GBGTPP]

With the soft paint on these cars I'm sure many of us have a ton of rock chips. It's time to show off and brag (at least before we Dr. Colorchip them)!

I have also gone through 3 windshields

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[mejohn50]

No pics, but my hood needs to be repainted at 10k miles and I have had one windshield replaced so far. I actually figured it would be worse than it is since I routinely drive 200kmh/124mph+. I have probably a dozen or so chips in the hood.

 

[FruityJudy]

I would but I don't have enough space on my phone for all the pictures it would take....

 

[NoVaGT]

Yeaaaaah.....I've circled and pointed out the areas where the worst of the chips are. It's pretty consistent.

I'm just messing around with photo editing. Here's another representation of where the chips are.....the areas in blue.

She's a ten-footer.

 

[Zelek]

I think I have one that hit my PPF pretty hard above my left front light, but other than that, the paint film has defended a good 98% of rock chips. I've got the entire front, hood, and mirrors done. Surprisingly no rock chips at all on the rear quarters but I don't drive on rocky roads.

 

[Cobra Jet]

This is gonna get good... Hey Ford are ya listening....yet????

 

[NoVaGT]

This is gonna get good... Hey Ford are ya listening....yet????

I don't think it's Ford.

My car was fine until a 3000 mile trip to Texas and back. It's driving on freeways that does it.

 

[Cobra Jet]

I don't think it's Ford.

My car was fine until a 3000 mile trip to Texas and back. It's driving on freeways that does it.

It’s the prep, the paint, the application of it and lack of thickness... all applied at Ford.

The issue has been present since the initial S550 rollout and Ford has done absolutely NOTHING to improve the paint quality on the S550.

This also includes reported drips, runs, debris in the paint, pock marks under clear, edges of panels left unpainted or too thin a layer, etc.

There is no reason why the paint chips as easily as it does from normal highway driving. I’m not talking going through construction zones, driving through gravel, or hugging the shoulders where debris lies...

Just wait till this thread really gets going...

 

[NoVaGT]

It’s the prep, the paint, the application of it and lack of thickness... all applied at Ford......

I'll go with the idea that, if you have windshield damage, even small chips & stuff, it's not the paint.

 

[Joe B.]

I was on the Interstate passing cars. All of a sudden sounds like hail hitting the car. Some A-hole pulling an open utility trailer humped with gravel. About a dozen chips on hood and windshield. Urge to kill.

 

[Zrussian13]

I had about 5 or 6 bad chips within the first 5000miles driving on the I10 out here in phoenix. Since then my job site moved and I no longer take the 10 and haven't noticed any more chips in the last 10000 miles so freeways definitely play their part.

 

[Cobra Jet]

Freeways, highways, super highways, biways, interstates, turnpikes, parkways, throughways, autobahn, connector roads, boulevards, frontage roads, etc... paint on brand new cars should be able to withstand daily drives without such excessive chip damage occurring.

Put it this way, my 94 Cobra has original Rio Red paint - it was daily driven through all seasons and environments here in NJ. It has 140,000 original miles on it AND has less body chips on the entire car than the both sides of my 2018 has on it...

For the Cobra, that’s over a 25 year span of daily driving on the SAME roads and in the same environments - as my 2018 that is only going on 2 years old...

Side by side, my Cobra still looks like it rolled off the showroom floor.

It’s the prep/paint and Ford’s process.


**Windshields, glass, rims, chrome trim , headlight/taillight lenses, etc. doesn’t apply in this thread if we’re discussing only paint chips....

 

[NoVaGT]

Freeways, highways, super highways, biways, interstates, turnpikes, parkways, throughways, autobahn, connector roads, boulevards, frontage roads, etc... paint on brand new cars should be able to withstand daily drives without such excessive chip damage occurring.

Put it this way, my 94 Cobra has original Rio Red paint - it was daily driven through all seasons and environments here in NJ. It has 140,000 original miles on it AND has less body chips on the entire car than the both sides of my 2018 has on it...

For the Cobra, that’s over a 25 year span of daily driving on the SAME roads and in the same environments - as my 2018 that is only going on 2 years old...

Side by side, my Cobra still looks like it rolled off the showroom floor.

It’s the prep/paint and Ford’s process.


**Windshields, glass, rims, chrome trim , headlight/taillight lenses, etc. doesn’t apply in this thread if we’re discussing only paint chips....

So, I'll calculate that your Cobra has been driven 5,600 miles a year. That's very low miles, suggesting it's not daily driven.

How many miles on the 2018?

And yes, the rest of the car tells the story of the conditions the car has been driven in. If your windshield looks brand-new, and your paint is bad, then something is wrong with the paint.

 

[Nagare]

Yes, road conditions affect your paint - he isn't disputing. The point is that the paint shouldn't chip so easily, plenty of other cars driven in the same conditions don't have the amount of chipping that our cars do.

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