Bad stone chips caused by loose road surface.

[Jomty]

Cleaned my car yesterday, and when I finished I noticed it was COVERED in stone chips!  Now the paint was and is pretty mint everywhere else, and I know exactly whats caused it. On my Route to work there is a stretch of about 1.5 miles that's had the road surface taken off it, try as I did to avoid this (20 mph all the way mile gap between the car in front etc) it's happend and I am f*cking fuming! They're all over, all over the bonnet/bumper, front wings, door and even the rear quarter's! My question is, is there any way I'm going to be able to chase the council for some money for this? My pride & joy's been battered due to them refusing to fix roads properly, please tell me there's some way of getting them to cough up!

[JoeDarKa]

I think it will be highly unlikely they will do anything. Are you sure the chips werent there in the first place and if you polished / waxed it, its that caught in the chips?

I had the same problem with road surfaces near me so just went a different way to work!

[DDM]

many moons ago I had a 1 yr old car that got damaged by a gritter spreading lime onto the road due to the tar melting, it wrecked the drivers side of the car, council paid out instantly as the tracker on the gritter showed he was travelling at 42mph when he had put a 20mph speed limit on that stretch of road. worth a try mate.

[Jomty]

Yeah they certainly weren't there before, even the missus came out and said "what are all these marks?!" I've not polished it yet but you can see the profile of the worst ones, how deep they are.

[Jomty]

You can see them best in this picture but it still doesn't do it justice how bad they are.

[dansmith180]

Its extremely unlikely you'll get anything because it hasn't caused what they would consider damage, for them a big pothole causing a ruined tyre/ wheel is something they might pay out for but unless your council is very friendly you'd have a hard time getting anything    its a shame we pay plenty of road tax but they're still sh*t

[AndyBrown]

It's worth a try anyway mate, let us know how it goes.

[Jomty]

Just been to see my mate at the body shop. He thinks it could be upwards of £1000 to repair due to the amount of affected panels and the number of chips on them, even the headlights are peppered! To top it off they're working on the same road and there's even more gravel on it now! I can't even take another route to work.