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Whittie
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23rd Dec 10 at 18:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
...when you're on a single lane road, and you see a gritter spreading coming towards you, there is nowhere to go, and the noise of the splat on your car makes you shudder.

Does it actually do any damage, to the paint? Would hate to be in a new car when that happens! Makes a hell of a racket when you're both going at speed
Haimsey
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23rd Dec 10 at 18:34   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I always hide from them. A mate of mine pulled out, saw it coming and reversed back down the side road before

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Jamie-C
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Its been happening to me a lot recently in a new car , I don't think it would do any damage unless you got out with a sponge and rubbed all the grit round in circles
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yup, saw some muppet sat behind the gritter on the motorway the other day, they didn't make any effort to move over

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ed
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I think it sounds a lot worse than it actually is. Been 'got' a few times and I can't see much in the way of damage, no worse than the gravel and stuff you get on the motorway.
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Ive not been enjoying the sound of it flicking up down the side of the car either

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Ben G
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firt xmas i had the focus, was 6 months old then, the exact thing you decribed in your first post happened to me.

hit loads of the stuff hit the front end of my car beautiful orange paint had stone chips in little places ever since.
am4nf
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I hate it too, always try to hide from them
BeetleGav
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ive taken my beetle off the road to hide from the grit! but i dont like the corsa getting hit either
IvIarkgraham
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23rd Dec 10 at 18:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
do you stick your teeth out the window so they get gritted?
3CorsaMeal
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Don't care in the escort, i actually speed up and show them i'm not bothered
deano87
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23rd Dec 10 at 18:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Aggregate lorries on the motorway that have recently dumped their load are worse tbh.

EDIT: Grit your teeth



[Edited on 23-12-2010 by deano87]
sc0ott
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I never see them. Im beginning to think theyre hidding from me.
Bonney
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Had one before. Driving along a dual carriageway following one that wasn't gritting. One of the lanes was blocked with snow, when he turned it on to start gritting.

When I had a courtesy car a couple off years back, I decided to see how close I could get to one. Front of the car was full of grit. Made a horrible noise!
Graham88
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23rd Dec 10 at 19:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Of course they damage, it's like stones hitting your car at 70mph or whatever speed you're doing, it sounds terrible

I turn off the motorway if I see them and sit for 5 mins or take a different route if I can
Twiggy
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Its worse on N/S single roads!
Robin
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23rd Dec 10 at 22:25   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I tailgated a gritter the other day. Stonechip heaven
Eck
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Is that a new JDM thing Rob?
Robin
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GDM, only do it in the mile muncher
Matt L
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only ever met them on motorways or dual carriage ways so just slow down to miss the spray off them until theres a gap to floor it past them .
dannymccann
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Don't care really, the splinter is half hanging off the astra and it wouldn't go back on with kicking it so its still hanging. I try and get behind lorries on wet roads because the spray cleans the car for me

 
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