I almost had a heart attack the other day. I was walking out of work and noticed I have two stone chips (one on the bumper, one on the hood - not dents, just missing paint) on the front of my car!

The weird thing is that I don't ever remember anything hitting the front of it. I try not to tailgate anyone because I don't want anything to hit the front of my ride. About a week ago, I took I took my car to the dealer to have some rattles (big surprise) fixed and their process of fixing the rattles (by the way they only got 1 of the 3 fixed) included a 'road test'. Can't prove anything either way, but I baby my car, I know that these chips weren't there the day before I took the car in (I washed it the day before).

Does anyone have a way to repair stone chips? Can I get them touched up, or will that just make it look worse?

 

If not too much time has elapsed, I would go back to the dealer and state your case. Maybe you can get them to do the touch-up at no cost...

 

Welcome to the world of Acura fragile paint! Owned ours since July and it continues to get worse. From other members, the only solution is XPEL. As far as repairing...even if the dealer does it for free, it will look like poop. My wife regularly takes our tl-s to a ding/chip repair guy. Unfortunately because our NBP has the pearl/metallic blue chips in it......a "repair" doesn't look very good....only slightly conceals the big chip. My wife was told that if the black were a flat black (like my 4Runner), then the chips would almost disappear.

Anyway, we had the SAME THING happen when the dealer did the 7500 mile service. They had to do a road test and our car was returned with 3 new, to the metal, chips! My wife mentioned it to the exact technician that drove the car and he just said that it could have happened during his test drive and he was sorry. Now my wife new that if she brought it up to the dealer...they would just apply the Acura touch up paint and maybe not even in the proper way...so she said nothing.

EPA regulations or not, if Acura new the paint was going to be so fragile, THEY should have cut a deal with XPEL and made it a standard feature.

 

Xpel won't give you 100% protection. I had Xpel installed and still have few chips on the hood, fenders and doors. Sometimes I'm thinking to put Xpel on entire car would helps.

 

Sounds to me like I need to find a good ding/chip repair guy up here in Cleveland....

 

That's why I have hesitated to spend the money on XPEL, 90% of the chips we have are high on the hood or on the fenders! I came to the same conclusion: to really protect the car one would need to XPEL the whole thing.

That's why I was looking into a "paint protection" system called Toughguard. Don't know if that's the answer either. I know the real answer is better paint durability...somehow!