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3 weeks ago i took delivery of my cobalt blue 997 TT. While at the dealership i had a detailer give it a zymol royale treatment before i drove it away. It looked fabulous. yestetday to my horror while driving i got a stone chip on the bonnet. It is quite small but has broken the paint and has left a small dent and silver mark on my proud paintwork. What should I do. I presume the likes of chips away etc are not going to do my car justice. Does anyone have any advice / recommendations. I am distraught. [:(][:mad:]
 
Wait for 5 years until you have a large collection of stone chips- and then get the front end resprayed.
 
I know just how you feel and I fear there is no perfect remedy - other than complete section re-spray, but time is a great healer. Some (not me) view their first chip/dent etc. as a great liberating experience freeing them from future anxiety. I invested in Paint Shield (3M) film for the front bumper and in the last 9 months this has saved a lot of chips but I decided against the full A frame forward protection partly because of aesthetics and partly because of cost. My first paintwork chip appeared on the off-side wing just to the rear of the headlight, I had Reynolds (Porsche approved repairer) touch it up but as they said the only sure way to fix it was a complete wing respray but I decided to leave it until there was more damage. It does still show, but over time I've found I notice it less and less. My advice: try having it touched up and if the result is something you can live with for a year or two - fine but if not get the whole bonnet done.

Edit: corrected name of Porsche approved repair shop. I realised it was wrong when I read nsm3's post.
 
thomas-i feel your pain-i spent hours zymoling my p and j 3 weks ago only to comr down yesterday morning to find some yob had gouged the front above the bumper on his/her way home after a sat,night p*** up[:mad:][:mad:][:mad:]I am still in a quandery-i know i cant live with it so am looking at alternatives like chips etc before the inevitable front end respray....still...it may bring on the 997tt sooner(but not if yobos find that even more attractive[:mad:][:mad:][:mad:]
 
Part and parcel of owning the car sadly [:(]
I have them on the PU, bonnet and wings but luckily the colour of my car makes them a little less obvious than my previous black car and your Cobalt blue.. [:mad:]

I'm waiting until a point where it becomes to bad and then have the respray done on the panels.
I feel your pain as my first stone chip really hurt [:eek:]


Luckily no scratches yet.....[:(] Gutted for you dyllan, youths who own nothing and know not what its like when their own property is damaged..

garyw
 
I had my new C2S detailed with Royale before it left the dealership and it picked up its first stone chip after about 3-4 weeks / 1,000 miles on a spirited and fun drive - one of the best road drives of my life. Annoyed - hell no.

You will pick up more, re-spray before you sell on!
 
Get one of those Turtle wax coloured polishes with the wax crayon - the front of my Basalt Black car is full of little wax touch ups - then forget about it.

If it makes you feel any better I tried to remove a squashed moth from the bumper which I left on for 3 weeks and had sort of burnt in? I used meths and the top layer of laquer came off!! £450 for Reynolds to respray, so tha can wait methinks?
 
If i leave it in the knowledge that i will probabaly get more and therefore it may make more sense at a later stage to do someting about it such as re spray etc, will the chip not rust and cause more problems. in fairness it is small. Given the car has been royaled any smart repair or even touch up by a decent boyshop may make it more obvious. what do you think? unless i have the bonnet royaled again. I can accept leaving it only because short of respraying I am thinking it will always show, or will a touch up by a decent bodyshop be good enough? is chips away definately out of the question? What should i do?
 
Chipsaway don't like to do/won't do big panels like bonnets. Their spray guns aren't big enough for the job. They usually like to do bumpers or wings.I asked my Chipsaway guy recently if he would re-spray my bonnet and he wouldn't do it. So I don't think they are even an option
 
having had the ding yesterday[:mad:]i was given the tel.no. of a gent in st albans -des farr-who spent 3 hrs this morning and removed dent/gouge and all seven scratches/chips followed by two pack atlas to the whole front apron-all for£200 looks like showroom new[:D]
 
dyllan, i am based in lancashire. how would you describe the repairers business so I can investigate whether there is anyone similair in the north west? my detailer has told me he can sort it out when he next tops us my zymol in 3 months time. he made it sound very easy. i am debating whether to let him do it when he next comes around or get someone else to do the job.
 
can i ask what is the best treatment i can buy to clean and protect my car both inside and out when it arrives?? tks
 
paint and dent repair man i guess?i have his mobile if people down in herts need a good guy
 
ORIGINAL: thomas

If i leave it in the knowledge that i will probabaly get more and therefore it may make more sense at a later stage to do someting about it such as re spray etc, will the chip not rust and cause more problems. in fairness it is small. Given the car has been royaled any smart repair or even touch up by a decent boyshop may make it more obvious. what do you think? unless i have the bonnet royaled again. I can accept leaving it only because short of respraying I am thinking it will always show, or will a touch up by a decent bodyshop be good enough? is chips away definately out of the question? What should i do?
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If its the bonnet then its aluminium anyway and won't rust.
 
If you do a search you'll find a thread I started last year when my 997S was keyed across the passenger door and rear wing so required a spray over a very large area. I used Chipsaway in Reading. The guy has premises rather than a mobile service and a year on I am still 100% absolutely delighted. Cost about £300.

Since then my car has recived a few scuffs and stone chips and I'm just ignoring them (difficult as I'm an obsessive perfectionist!) and will get them all done in a few months just before I sell.

BTW - bonnet won't rust, it's aluminium.
 
You do know you can get touch up paint from your OPC right?

It's the first thing I am going to ask for when I pick up my Turbo next year.



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ORIGINAL: nsm3

Get one of those Turtle wax coloured polishes with the wax crayon - the front of my Basalt Black car is full of little wax touch ups - then forget about it.
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Spot on,

This is exactly what I do then polish over the top of it, cant find some of the marks myself without looking hard after that !

Stone chips I can live with, dings/scratches in the panels from some careless, inconsiderate, incompetent, spacially challenged muppet is another matter... [:mad:]

Yves
 
ORIGINAL: YvesD

ORIGINAL: nsm3

Get one of those Turtle wax coloured polishes with the wax crayon - the front of my Basalt Black car is full of little wax touch ups - then forget about it.
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Spot on,

This is exactly what I do then polish over the top of it, cant find some of the marks myself without looking hard after that !

Stone chips I can live with, dings/scratches in the panels from some careless, inconsiderate, incompetent, spacially challenged muppet is another matter... [:mad:]

Yves
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Yves, don't hold back on this one - Obviously a painful experince was had at some point at the hands of a muppet. I am fully with you

I think Porsche have missed out a must have extra - Radar Controlled muppet identificaiton and extermination plus a couple of siurface to surface missiles - it would make the roads far safer..........
 
ORIGINAL: okellyt
I think Porsche have missed out a must have extra - Radar Controlled muppet identificaiton
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No they didn't, Porsche supplied badges for people to fit to their cars... just look out for them, they are labelled "Corsa" "Nova" and "Micra".
Some others supplied were a propellor roundel in blue and white [;)]

Just watch and you'll see that Porsche have indeed looked after us..:ROFLMAO:

garyw
 
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