I've been sat here wondering why I seem to have a huge stone chip on my bumper, which might not seem an odd thing to get as its a semi normal thing to happen.
However i've been driving range rovers for years and never had such a thing happen before. Yes little stone chips but this is almost like the paint is so soft in my car.
You're all either going to laugh you're socks off at my question, or agree.
I almost feel quite embarrassed asking but hey ho. 

The paint on RRS is renowned to be soft foxy, hence all the chips, as you've seen all mine on the front, it must of been a big stone that hit yours at the time.

I'd agree - it's extremely soft. Mine's black and shows every scratch.

Also the bonnet is peppered with stone chips from our regular trip up the A1 to see our son at university.

Good excuse to get the detailing gear out tho'! FF 4.4 V8 Soooo looking forward to this bad boy
Ex 2006 RRS SC - garbage
Ex 2016 135i M Sport - dream car
Ex 2003 RS6 Avant - piece of cr*p
Ex 2014 320d X Drive, M Sport Touring - ok I guess
Ex 2007 RRS TDV8 - bloody loved it
EX 2007 FL2 XS - not so bad

Ill post a picture when I land back at Heathrow today. It will need more than detailing. Im thinking a bloody respray
Was just wondering if Landrover should bloody have a look at it. Wonder if its faulty paint  

There is a good touch up pen which has a filling agent in it and can be rubbed off when dry (any excess) will find the link to the site.....

NickM wrote:

There is a good touch up pen which has a filling agent in it and can be rubbed off when dry (any excess) will find the link to the site.....

Please do

Siberianfox wrote:

I've been sat here wondering why I seem to have a huge stone chip on my bumper, which might not seem an odd thing to get as its a semi normal thing to happen.
However i've been driving range rovers for years and never had such a thing happen before. Yes little stone chips but this is almost like the paint is so soft in my car.
You're all either going to laugh you're socks off at my question, or agree.
I almost feel quite embarrassed asking but hey ho.

I think the problem is that the paint/laquer is too hard.. If it were soft, it would deform and maybe dent a little with a stone chip but when it's too hard it doesn't have any flex at all and chips off.

A good friend has a rather lovely ferrari 599 which he brought on one of my driving tours to northern Spain and southern France.. I was in an Audi RS6 and both cars were dark grey. After 1 week of Driving on identical roads - at identical speeds The lower part of his front bumper had virtually no paint left on it whereas my Audi was virtually chip free.

After some investigation, we found out that it was the laquer used by Ferrari. It was much much harder when dry than the Audi stuff which was almost soft. Audi said that they used a different product on the areas vulnerable to chipping such as the sills and lower front areas. Solution was to have the front repainted by the local Audi dealer using Ferrari paint but
Audi laquer.

Cheers,
J

Don't want to see stone chips........................ buy a white car 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

NickM wrote:

There is a good touch up pen which has a filling agent in it and can be rubbed off when dry (any excess) will find the link to the site.....

Foxy, when you've had the chips sorted out why don't you consider having something like this done http://www.armourfend.co.uk/armourfend-for-cars with the mileage you do it might be worth it

after a year and a half of off road abuse (check my posts), all of the scratches on the paintwork polished out quite easily