Bad news: My 2012 Fit has one-million paint chips on the hood. It looks covered with splattered bugs, except those dots aren't bugs, nor do they wash off.

It's just the shape of the Fit, sadly. Thin paint. I've learned to accept it and move on. If it really bothers me, I can always remove the hood and have a body shop repaint it someday. In a few years, I probably will.

The upside: I've never had a single rock-chip on the windshield.

 

You haven't driven down the 605 fwy near the Irwindale raceway then lol. There is a rock/sand quarry by there so there are hundreds of rock/cement trucks pass though that freeway so my paint gets hammered every day. I think the best way to aviod these annoyances is to invest in a 3M clear bra setup.

 

I am semi serious. It more about the space they take up in these traffic situations, and the obvious problem of loose cargo in the same situations.


Also, just because they drive a truck for a living doesn't make them "professionals" at the act of driving.

 

Haha no, more of a 710 guy myself to get up that way, never took the 605 that far north more than a handful of times. In fact I avoided the 605 as much as possible (and the 10, what a POS lol)

Just ask because I do driving on all kinds of interstates, desert, mountain, snow and otherwise regularly and only have a few serious chips (and one dimple square in the middle, no idea what boulder did that).

I don't play around with gravel trucks or concrete trucks, I don't care what it takes I will get in front of them or two lanes to the side one way or another as soon as they're in sight. If I can't pass i'm sitting back 10 car lengths

 

LMAO dude i don't know what kinda of rubber rocks these fvckers carry but i can sit back 3 lanes to the left and 500ft back and i can still hear tons of the rocks hitting my hood and windshield. The only time i DONT get gravel hammered is on the way home where we are moving like errr 3mph or less in traffic lol.

 

This is exactly the reason I want to plasti dip/vinyl my whole car. F that car bra crap we need car condoms...gigity

 

Unfortunately, that doesn't help if the truck is passing you in the opposite direction and a rock falls off the load. Happened to my brand new Harley 18 years ago. I still have the dent in the front fender.