Bloomin' Windscreen Chips!!!

Horizon81

If this sounds like a rant then it's because it is a rant!

I'm not talking about chips bad enough to cause a bullseye chip, just the ones that cause a small mark the size of a matchstick head, or several matchstick heads depending on the size of the rock. The sort of chips that can't be repaired because they're too small but at the same time are very distracting/annoying!

In all my years of driving I've hardly had any of these but in the past couple of years I've had an increasing number of these. And in the past fortnight I've had 2 big stones hit my screen causing a peppering of little dots which look like grey scuffs when its cloudy or glow when the sun is shining due to the indention they've made in the glass. I know one was caused by the guy in front of me overtaking the car in front of him - the stone must have been in the middle of the carriageway and flicked up as he overtook. The second one must have been caused by me driving at 60mph into the path of a stone flicked up by a car travelling in the opposite direction (with the stone travelling in the same direction as me).

It's just sooo annoying. I've had one screen replaced already due to the positioning of these little chips but that screen got hit again within a few months. Seems futile to just keep replacing screens. I've tried leaving more than a 2 second gap between me and the car in front but that isn't going to stop stones being flicked up by cars coming in the opposite direction e.g. on a 60mph A road.

Am I just unlucky or are the state of our roads in sharp decline? As I say, up to a couple of years ago I'd rarely had any road debris ever hit my screen. Has anyone got any tips for minimising the appearence of these scuffs? I've tried pit fill resin in the past with no joy, and they're too small for the windscreen companies to fix.