we have visited two renault locations and they have said they are stone chips,its not the fact they are stone chips, these are a fact of life, but the paint is coming off in 5mm circles and continuing to flake. you only have to brush past the bonnet and the paint falls off. within 6 months the bonnets will be more primer than anything. the only thing Renault has offered is send someone out to measure the paint thickness and quality,and this has been a hard battle for them to do this. in all fairness Solihull really pushed Renault UK to send someone.
if they say their is nothing wrong with the paint, we will have it done ourselves and its history for the 172. I will though refer this matter to other organisations just to highlight the problems we have encountered dealing with Renault.
Griff let us know what Renault say about your bonnet.
one saving grace is that the one guy who looked at the car, did admit that he never seen that kind of flaking from stone chips.
i am limbering up for a big fight!!!!