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28-01-2005, 09:42 PM
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Drvtme
Join Date: Dec 2004
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yep, today i had the windows tinted and the clear bonnet protection put on my car.
Driving home (in the rain) and thud! - - - - on arriving home, you guessed it, my first stone chip....right next to the area i had protection put on. AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Letting out my frustration right now is important.
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28-01-2005, 09:44 PM
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Just Super Happy now :)
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bugger Philbie!!! I'm sure its going to be one of many unfortunately :(
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28-01-2005, 09:51 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
 
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:( Bummer
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28-01-2005, 09:55 PM
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Spewn mate.... Its always the way tho.
Did you get some touch up paint buddy?
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28-01-2005, 09:56 PM
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Drvtme
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28-01-2005, 09:59 PM
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Foo Fighter
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Wellington, NZ
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Bugger, my dad also got a chip in his front windscreen today weird thing was it wasnt there when he parked the car outside his work, but was when he got back in.
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28-01-2005, 09:59 PM
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bring it on
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ah sorry to hear it dude..dammit
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28-01-2005, 10:05 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Bugga philbie ....... but matey ..... you know the way of the bush ...... get some touch up NOW !!!!!!!!!
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28-01-2005, 10:12 PM
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I am The Brain!
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Oh no! Not the immaculate paint job. This is where having an Imagination-Mobile (tm) comes in handy.
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28-01-2005, 10:26 PM
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Lucifer's Angel
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Damn. I'd be peeved too. Inconsiderate stones...
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28-01-2005, 11:40 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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damn! that has gotta be frustrating...but its just the way life goes isnt it
country driving - doesnt seem to matter how slow/fast you drive, you can bet on getting stone chips
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28-01-2005, 11:42 PM
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Drvtme
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yeah and I'm in Melbourne atm too - that makes it worse
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29-01-2005, 12:06 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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well that most certainly does make it worse!
good on ya bracksie - wrecking the roads here now ;) and why arent you around here at the xa coupes' showing us your new toy??? :hihi:
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29-01-2005, 12:38 AM
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29-01-2005, 08:11 AM
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Damn philbie, geez, no mercy from stones. Do stones get chipped by other stones I wonder?
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29-01-2005, 08:47 AM
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Marmindie
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Noosa Australia
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It's a bitch, but it's harsh. Laser guided stones... bastards.
It's the ones I discover when washing... what the, "didn't even hear that one hit". I was passing a truck on the freeway with some kind of earth moving beast on board, no problem... then he bangs over a bump in the road... it looked like 25 tonne of dry hard clay was realeased... I was in the right place to take most of it between the headlights... But 12 months on... stone chips and I have an agreement, I don't look for them and they don't reveal themselves. |
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29-01-2005, 11:08 AM
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beep beep
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Location: Melbourne
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My partners XR8 ute has got a custom paint job (which most know about by now), but the point of this story is that there is an extra 2 layers of clear put ont he front of the car where the paintwork is but not on the tub. Suprise suprise, all the stone chips are on the tub, not on the bonnet.
If I get a new car i'd ask for an extra layer of clear or two to be put on at a repair department.
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29-01-2005, 12:26 PM
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no, it's NOT my dad's.
Join Date: Jan 2005
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i got a stone chip in the front windscreen of my ba xr6 about 4 days after i bought it :(~
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29-01-2005, 12:35 PM
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Lucifer's Angel
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Being 16 months old, my XR6 came with stone chips, and minor scratches.
 :Theres only 2 places where it bugs me though, and I'll be getting touch up paint ASAP.
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29-01-2005, 08:00 PM
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ohh damn, sorry to hear philbie
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29-01-2005, 08:04 PM
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Golf GTI
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In God's Country
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Philbie gave me the touareg, it pushes stones and rocks out of the way, so I don't have that problem. Needless to say, I feel for his loss (of paint)
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29-01-2005, 08:27 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Location: Melbourne
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and welcome to the forums mrsphilbie!
are your stone pushing services up for hire, we could probably utilise you on our cruises  :
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29-01-2005, 08:50 PM
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Giddy up.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Kramerica Industries.
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It's a fact of life, unfortunetley, as a wize man once said sh#t happen's, I looked at a very nice Mercury Silver BA XR8 ute today at one of my local car yard's, it has had a bonnet protector on because it had the little clear plug's on the bonnet and grille but no protector, but it had chip's and mark's all over it, so much for protection.
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30-01-2005, 07:21 PM
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Yeah i got my first stone chip in the first week, ****in chip was huge as well. Get some touch up on it cus mine went rusty waitin for my deaker to get back to me about it.
Give's me the shits everytime i wash it. Then the other day it rolled into the shed door(stupid handbrake needs adjusting) and rubbed a few places on the front bumper straight through the paint. |
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31-01-2005, 10:17 AM
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Lowriding
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Where do you get the clear bonnet protection done? At a dealer? A mate wants to get it done to his new BA. |
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31-01-2005, 10:28 AM
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Last warning
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damn :o
stone chips have made a mess of my car
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