Nowt wrong with N0.3 in particular really.
Some raptor eh?
Well done.
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bought some touch-up paint
Same here. Dreading using it.
I also checked the engine oil at the beach during my lunch break.
After driving to my local Esso forecourt on a freshly surfaced and chipped road, found myself later touching in a small paint chip on the n/s/f wingâŚ! Why canât they sweep the loose chippings awayâŚ?! 
Rob
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Fookinâ love it!
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Surface dressing is, hands down, one of the best ways to waste the rest of the local authorityâs transport budget, come end of year. Utterly terrible surface and, while they may tell us that it protects the road surface for a few years and prevents the need to redo it fully, the lumpy result is worse than the condition before itâs laid. Hateful.
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lovely 
Shampooâd my California floor mats
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Thanks
Bought a trolley jack for my 5.
I hadnât had a single stone-chip in a year of ownership, until a recent driving holiday around England. Came across many surface dressed roads and now have about a dozen chips on the front. What annoys me most is the drivers coming the other way, who clearly donât care about their cars, driving much faster than the recommended 20mph, showering you with chips.
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Yep, it seems such a lazy way to ârepairâ a road I despise it!
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Surface dressing is or can be a complete nightmare! Iâm a retired civil engineer, specialised in highway maintenance and also latterly, lectured on this and other maintenance/construction topics. Post application traffic control is one of the potential failures of surface dressing. Iâve been involved in trials of polymer modified and even vegetable based binders (all the âgoldâ areas at the Olympic stadium used the vegetable based binder as it dries clear, leaving no unsightly black marks).
A big problem when specifying binder/ chipping comboâs is the degree of hardness of the road surface being dressed. The binder not only seals the surface but helps promote the initial adhesion of the chippings to the road surface. Unfortunately, these days with surfaces being patched or reinstated many times, a section of road may have several different hardnessâs on their surface. This can result in total embedment of the aggregates into a softer surface or at the other extreme, a total loss of aggregate as it cannot embed into the harder areas. This could be countered by an increased spread rate of binder on hard areas and less in soft areas or smaller aggregate on hard with larger on soft areas. In practice, this doesnât happen, end result can be as previously stated by others, chippings flying everywhere!
In more rural areas with undulating surfaces, less repairs and narrow single track pavements, with potentially slower traffic, surface dressing can be the ideal solution. Highway engineers though can cover massive areas of busier roads by surface dressing in an attempt to unify the running surface. Doesnât always end well though.
Iâm not defending it, just giving a bit of background.
Apologies for long post, I could have gone on! 
Barrie
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And itâs just not the chips to the paint either - I have mentioned before elsewhere the micro-chipping caused to the windscreen, and I know to most motorists that isnât an issue, but to us with our âPride-And-Joysâ, it does matter somewhatâŚ!
Rob
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Cat is out of the bag now. We were all so impressed with the block paving you did a while back. Now we know that you have an ology in all that stuff itâs not quite so impressive.
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I refused to buy a car last week as it had a large chip in the passenger side part of the screen. I just know it would bug me if I owned it, the salesman said it would be fixed. I asked new screen? he said no just fixed?
Iâve had quite a few stones hit my car more recently, luckily theyâve not harmed the paint, still have a few touch ups to do, tiny tiny chips on the car not all at the front either from last year.
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Had the wheels on my NC1 refurbished as well as a colour change the other week, finally got around to fitting them today. Safe to say Iâm really pleased with how they turned out!
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A set of these would really finish off the black look, Pictures are of them fitted to my aluminium metallic Paint.
Barrie
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Oooo yes! Mine stick out like a sore thumb at the moment aha. Where did you get those?
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