I detailed my wife's Scion IQ yesterday, to my suprise I counted about twenty stone chips on the Hood (and the hood on the IQ is tiny) that go all the way down to the metal. I'm quite suprised for a number of reasons:
- The car barely does any highway, I'd say about 10% of the mileage is highway
- The car is impeccably maintained, it's always got a nice layer of wax and we always wash it regularly
- Me and the wife always keep a large distance to the cars in front of us
- My 2008 Jetta is nearing 100 000KM, although it has a few stone chips, none of them go down to the metal, and my Jetta is used almost exclusively on the highway
I called Toyota, and they say it's normal and they can't do anything about stone chips. I said we have a major problem if they tell me it's normal, so I'm getting it checked out tomorrow at the dealer, I suppose they're going to blame me for they shitty paint...
EDIT: Just to be clear, the 20 or so stone chips I'm talking about are the ones going down to metal, there are many more stone chips on the Hood that are purely cosmetic blemishes...
- The car barely does any highway, I'd say about 10% of the mileage is highway
- The car is impeccably maintained, it's always got a nice layer of wax and we always wash it regularly
- Me and the wife always keep a large distance to the cars in front of us
- My 2008 Jetta is nearing 100 000KM, although it has a few stone chips, none of them go down to the metal, and my Jetta is used almost exclusively on the highway
I called Toyota, and they say it's normal and they can't do anything about stone chips. I said we have a major problem if they tell me it's normal, so I'm getting it checked out tomorrow at the dealer, I suppose they're going to blame me for they shitty paint...
EDIT: Just to be clear, the 20 or so stone chips I'm talking about are the ones going down to metal, there are many more stone chips on the Hood that are purely cosmetic blemishes...
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