Which part of your car are you getting stone chips?
 

Just want to have a sense on what area(s) of the car people are getting stone chips given the shape of the design. Wondering if people get stone chips on weird areas. This might help people who's thinking on getting clear bra known where to protect it.

Front bumper and in front of rear wheels on the quarterpanel.

i have my complete front bumper wrapped in VentureShield so hopefully that'll deflect stone chips. Given the design of the twin, the front bumper also covers the area of where the front hood is on most other cars. I also have the car opti-coated hopefully the added thickness on the paint is going to help with minor things thrown at it.

front bumper and lip

I didn't check the bumper real close, but the first time I washed my car I noticed a few chips around the front badge. Pretty depressing, I mean, I know it's bound to happen, but I could've sworn I was being careful and avoiding driving close enough for that to happen. Guess I was wrong.

I hear a couple people talk about chipping on the "fangs". I've yet to find any chips so far but from what I understand the dealership offers touch-up paint for a reasonable price considering its value.

I put xpel ultimate on the bumper and mirrors, those were the areas on my last car that collected the most abuse. I'm not expecting too many chips on the hood. Right now the worst part is the windshield. Can't really put anything on it, and it's got two huge chips and a few smaller ones after less than 9000 miles (mostly freeway).

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I leave a lot of distance from the car in the front, so I rarely get a stone chip. I only got one on the front bumper in 9 months. It's a huge one though. :( I noticed that this car hardly gets stone chip. The cars that I used to have would've gotten 5 chips by now. But I scrape the bottom of the front bumper too often. :( I used to scrape one every year or two, but I already scraped 3 times.

I'm getting chips on the bumper and edge of hood with less than 4500 miles on the odo. I don't follow cars or trucks closely (especially not the lifted ones without flaps). I've even waxed it twice already. This paint is really, really thin. My 2000 Trans Am WS6 had much better paint. Even after 70k miles, I barely had any chips. I miss that.

Well obviously the front bumper, but I also get chips on te side of my doors.

A flying rock left a pretty large chip in my windshield as I was on my way to have Ultimate Xpel applied.

damn front tires! should have bought FLAPS :(

i'm glad i got my entire front bumper wrapped.

The very first chip I got from a thrown rock was on the passenger side mirror.

Where's the "None" option?

the point of the post is to see which part of the car gets most hit statistically speaking, not whether or not you get stone chips.
everyone is going to get a stone chip at some point. vote when you get a stone chip ;)

Headlights. My plastics have shitloads of scratches and pits in them.


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Front bumper and on the top leading edge of the front fenders. I am extremely conscious of not following too closely, and avoiding gravel haulers. But hey, this is the real world and I love to drive this thing.
I had my first little chips at under 2K miles. FYI… I went with Opti as soon as I brought it home… applied by Charlie Hahn.

front bumper, hood, and headlights

Front bumper! I have a couple teensy tiny dots

After sticky tires were installed it ruined my rear bumper along the wheel well, had to install OEM mudguard.

Front bumper and lip ave gotten a few nicks. May look into a clear bra for just the bumper.

Thus why I am getting XPEL on the whole front day one, my roads are bad, lots of grit, gravel elements etc. Plus XPEL unlike 3M over time will not yellow and has much better healing qualities to it.