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I've just washed the car for the first time in months (sorry, Clive!), and there are literally dozens of chips on the roof - I gave up counting after 25 - where the yellow paint is clearly visible through the black. Most are very small, but the largest is 3-4 mm across. They are pretty evenly distributed across the roof. There's no denting that I can detect.
So what could have caused this? I don't park the car under trees, so no falling branches, acorns etc. I don't park it anywhere where stuff could fall onto it (bits of roof tile etc). I can't recall any situation, when driving it, when it's been peppered with stones, buckshot, etc.
The only thing I can put it down to (having discounted bird-attack by magpies/crows/woodpeckers, as there are no footprints or bird-shit) is hailstones - but wouldn't there be at least some dents, if the hailstones were large enough to chip the paint? I've been away for much of the last month, but apparently we had some mega-hailstorms while I was away.
Has anyone else experienced this strange phenomenon?
As for remedying it, I'm not sure I can be bothered to touch up all the chips, & if I did so they'd probably be even more noticeable, so I'm minded just to use some black polish, in the hope that it will fill in the chips. Is that a bonkers idea?
So what could have caused this? I don't park the car under trees, so no falling branches, acorns etc. I don't park it anywhere where stuff could fall onto it (bits of roof tile etc). I can't recall any situation, when driving it, when it's been peppered with stones, buckshot, etc.
The only thing I can put it down to (having discounted bird-attack by magpies/crows/woodpeckers, as there are no footprints or bird-shit) is hailstones - but wouldn't there be at least some dents, if the hailstones were large enough to chip the paint? I've been away for much of the last month, but apparently we had some mega-hailstorms while I was away.
Has anyone else experienced this strange phenomenon?
As for remedying it, I'm not sure I can be bothered to touch up all the chips, & if I did so they'd probably be even more noticeable, so I'm minded just to use some black polish, in the hope that it will fill in the chips. Is that a bonkers idea?
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