Hi all,

great forum here - have already found numerous answers to Corolla questions today!

I love my 2002 blue Corolla Conquest, love it. But I hate that it cops a battering every day - I drive on a rural highway to work every day (only a 2 lane hwy) and often get stuck behind bloody trucks who insist on flicking up mega stones, or have them fall from their uncovered load. My poor lil Corolla has copped a beating from this, the bonnet and front is peppered with stone chips (plus a few on the windscreen).

What can I do to help this (if anything!)

Thanks experts

hehe Call the touch up guys??? or do it your self with a needle, syringe, or tooth pick? cut and polish might also work. Your just save up and give her a new color =)

Cheers

Car bra???? Also try to not stay too close to them.....

ah ha...thanks

although if i stayed a distance away from them, it would take me 2 hrs to get to work rather than 50 mins!!!! I hate it - it sucks - (Midland Hwy if anyone is curious...)

just a thought of mine buy a cheap BOMB car.. n u can drive it to work..let it get copped all it wants n ur corolla is safe

ha ha ha!! We were talking about that - I actually bought the car 3 years ago because I needed a reliable car to get to my new job - my bomb was dying - but funny, it hardly had any scratches or anything - now my 'good' car is being destroyed - poor thing (I have named it Corollatron) The stone chips are pretty deep - kinda looking at preventing rust now. Have also had a cat enjoy itself on it too - a few claw marks on it. I suppose that comes with a love for dark coloured cars!

If it's something that you do all the time, then there is not much point trying to alter it. Car-bra might help with the leading edge of the bonnet and the headlights, but the rest of the bonnet is still going to cop a hiding. My AE102 was originally my dad's, and he racked up a good 1000km a week driving it up to Mudgee and back, which is entirely open road highway full of coal trucks, and it's got a million and one stone chips on the bonnet. If you spend the time and clean them all up, and put some cover-up paint over the top, guaranteed a week will go by and then they'll start appearing like clockwork. Better to just accept it and move on.

Just respray the bonnet or bumper every 3 years or so. Stone chips just happen.