What gives? I was vacuuming the carpet on the driver's side and to the left of the break pedal I found this. Click on the small photo in this link for a larger photo of the rust in my NEW car. Is this normal? Covered?


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That is not rust by any means.

 

Um, yes it is. How do you figure it's not?

 

It's spotting. Discoloration on the metal. Scion did a sh.tty job on your car when they laid the finish on it and didn't get it very good. And moisture loves that area of your car and hides in there. So that cheap Chevy Aveo that you have, yeah, it has a cheap lacquer job done to it. Otherwise, it's bare metal to begin with and wasn't even touched with a sealant, so of course this is going to happen. They don't clear coat your bare metal parts buddy. Metal mixed with air takes about a day to start reacting. So this is normal, and it's not rust, it's oxidated spotting like I said.

 

Oxidated? Oxidized spotting. Surface rust. Still rust. Which leads to greater rust in time left untreated. What is the point with word games and semantics? It's a new car that shouldn't be doing what it's doing at this early stage and it doesn't seem "normal" for a new car even the mildest degree of quality control in the assembly line. Just saying. My car shouldn't have rust. And it IS rust, yo

 

Ferrari's hand sew and hand make their dashes.

This is an iQ with bare metal in a moist area. It's going to happen. There isn't a case of "it shouldn't happen". So don't feel so entitled to that.

Sand it down and lay some clear coat. Problem solved.

Quality does matter.

 

Just checked my 2014 IQ for rust in the same place and found not a spec.