Rocky road...

Caravanshaka · 05-09-2009, 10:11 PM

wow, you went a month without chips? I have enough road construction in my area I am lucky to get it home without getting rock chips. I bought mine a week ago today, and had scheduled an appointment asap for this saturday to get the protective film installed.

So last night I wash the car before garaging it so it was clean for the install tomorrow, and already find 2 tiny rock chips on the front bumper. I'm upset, but nothing I can do about it so I get in the car this morning to drive the 30 miles to the recommended installer to leave my car there for a few hours to get the film installed. I didn't drive behind any trucks, and tried to keep my distance behind other cars on the drive there for safety. I get to the installer and we both breifly look at the front and found 3 new rock chips in that 30 miles!!!

Luckily he was able to minimize their appearance with a little buffing and cleaning up around them, but now they are protected under my film =/

$600 well worth the investment to protect the front end....my 350z looked like it was peppered with a 12 guage about 15 times with little rocks in the shells by the time I traded it in....

Junior370z · 05-09-2009, 11:06 PM

The chips I have on my good your able to see the aluminum! The bumper is still in blemished.

$600, does that include the whole front end? I still have to see how much the place I want to go to charges.

U-NVmyZ? · 05-10-2009, 01:54 AM

this might sound dumb but when i read "rocky road" i thought of the ice cream and i thought u had dropped icecream on ur cloth seats or something lol, but those chips were gonna happen sooner or later at least u got it out of the way cuz it hurts no matter what, good thing it wasnt a worse

Caravanshaka · 05-11-2009, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Junior370z

$600, does that include the whole front end?

$600 included the entire front bumper, and up to the top of the headlights on both the fenders and the hood, along with the mirrors. I had a couple tiny chips on my 350z on other parts of the car, but the parts that I covered this time on the 370z looked like they were peppered with a shotgun a few times on the old 350.

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05-09-2009, 10:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
Caravanshaka I shake Caravans Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: north Dallas Posts: 9,517 Drives: everyone crazy Rep Power: 43	wow, you went a month without chips? I have enough road construction in my area I am lucky to get it home without getting rock chips. I bought mine a week ago today, and had scheduled an appointment asap for this saturday to get the protective film installed. So last night I wash the car before garaging it so it was clean for the install tomorrow, and already find 2 tiny rock chips on the front bumper. I'm upset, but nothing I can do about it so I get in the car this morning to drive the 30 miles to the recommended installer to leave my car there for a few hours to get the film installed. I didn't drive behind any trucks, and tried to keep my distance behind other cars on the drive there for safety. I get to the installer and we both breifly look at the front and found 3 new rock chips in that 30 miles!!! Luckily he was able to minimize their appearance with a little buffing and cleaning up around them, but now they are protected under my film =/ $600 well worth the investment to protect the front end....my 350z looked like it was peppered with a 12 guage about 15 times with little rocks in the shells by the time I traded it in....

05-10-2009, 01:54 AM	#3 (permalink)
U-NVmyZ? Base Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 110 Drives: 18 370 Sprt 6 Wht Rep Power: 17	this might sound dumb but when i read "rocky road" i thought of the ice cream and i thought u had dropped icecream on ur cloth seats or something lol, but those chips were gonna happen sooner or later at least u got it out of the way cuz it hurts no matter what, good thing it wasnt a worse