Driving down the highway last week and they had been carving the road up to lay new asphalt down... and I got behind this tractor trailer and yep... got a bunch of rocks hitting all over my brand new car! I checked it when I got back and it looked like I had gotten away with no damage... but upon closer examination when I was washing it today.. I saw several chips in my hood. I swear someone should start suing the state for doing this stuff. What I can I really do though? Use touch up and it'll like like crap or just get a carbon fiber hood.. which I don't really like the looks of.

 

welcome to USA...they should look into contracting german engineers to build the roads here so it doesnt feel like we live in a 3rd world country.

 

loud noises make the paint fall off our cars. So you've gotten the first chips out of the way, now you can look forward to first dent/ding and first curb rash. Good Luck!

 

Contact your local transportation department and file a claim.

 

dont worry about if you can only see it when washing your car if it's bad touch it up but dont go drop a stack on cf crap

 

I should.. if they would do anything about it.

 

the outside of your car is a wear item... treat it as such

 

I doubt they would give a rats *** about paint chips.

 

+1

 

cry me a river

 

lol,

first chips [check]
first dent [check]
curb rash [check].

I remember each one clearly....feels kinda nice to not have to worry about getting them now.

 

Happened to me a while ago - very irritating. I drove through a meteor shower courtesy of a big rig. I just applied touch-up paint to most of the 1,367,923 rock chips on my car a few days ago. It looks a little better, but I have no hope of ever keeping the exterior of any car that I own in flawless condition. Oh, and two of my wheels have %#$*! curb rash as well (my fault). I take consolation in the fact that my car looks really good in dim light from a distance.

 

what I do w/ all my new cars is I get 3M clear bra installed. Not a 100% protection from road derbis but avoid rock chips most of the time.

 

http://www.langka.com/ is a great system...

 

Dang man that sucks. I dont follow that close to cars anymore I have had a rock fly up and crack my window 3 times since i have been driving. man it sucks.