hey guys question.

i bought my 2008 flint mica in august and just drove it through the winter, and have tons of rock chips in the hood and fenders even the front window pillars. i have a car from 94 that looks just a bit worse than this. Has there been issues of bad factory paint jobs on our cars, because this just seems ridiculous?

Thx for the help in advance,

should i tell this to my dealer?

 

Yeah welcome to owning a Scion. They all have crummy paint. My 90 accord had better paint when I got rid of it. My car looks like somone sand blasted it in the front.

Sorry man but thats one of the drawbacks of the Scion's.

 

great this doesnt make me happy

 

Sorry man, Im just as mad as you. I always look at my car and am like why are you like this!??!

 

why are you like this
its only funny cause i say the same thing

 

hahah!...but yeah it does suck though.

 

I think we all do. I just feel sorry for the people with light colored paint since the nice black plastic bumper really shows through

 

well hopefully the stuff i had repainted from my accident will be a bit stronger

 

lots of cars have different qualities of paint.

http://atspeedmotorsports.com/August__2007

that guy used to work with me, and in person the paint job on this car is AWESOME, and more astonishing, it is the original paint from the factory. i thought for a car over 18 years old, he had had it repainted, but he said nope, still the original paintwork.

sure made my ssm tc look like crap! lol, but they are just totally different classes of cars.

 

clear bra! or even scion OEM one. i used the oem on my last tC. didn't have a chip until i totaled it. lol

 

I dont know if scion really does have low quality paint because one if you look at the prices it costs to mix some of those paints especially fm, bsp, and the blue colors its pretty steep as far as stock paints go. The clear the factory uses also is real good stuff. Ive driven my scion before I painted it allot on the highways and only saw one little nick on the top of the quarter panel where it reaches over the doors. If your driving behind a truck on the highway or any street in that fact. The rocks between the streets and the trucks tires also taking speed into this. Most cars would have chips. I try to avoid highway driving as much as possible. If its 2 hrs compared to 1.30 hrs on the highway then id rather take 30 more min to keep the paint nice. If some of those little pebbles can shatter sun roofs and windshields then I'm sure they can cause a little nick in 2mm thick paint.


Wax your cars!
Stay off the highway!
If your on the highway stay away from trucks!
Stay away from trucks and big cars all together!
Stay off of gravel roads!
and wax your car again. Weekly if you can. You want to be able to butter toast off of your fenders.

 

Lol its not like i have a choice all during high school and college. in hs 40 miles almost all highway and college 60+ all highway. lol my freaken front looks like it has been attacked my woodpeckers haha

 

has any one tried those clear bras? can u still notice them bad? do they trap water and cause rust?
how hard are they to apply?

 

My clearbra has kept my car looking like new. Otherwise most cheap cars like these have sh!tty paint that chips from just looking at it.

 

People don't notice it unless I point it out to them. They don't trap water - it's literally like tape. They are very hard to apply which is why most of the cost comes from labor.

 

I guess I'm the only lucky one haha. I have an 05 xB that has 68,000 miles on it and I havnt seen any chips yet. I also crashed it into a snow bank for fun one time screwing around in the pk lot behind my house and no damage what so ever. Then I pk it in the garage to keep it safe and a 2x4 leaning against the wall gets blown over and puts a dent in the fender

 

x2

 

My SW tC made it for 30k miles without any substantial rock chips on it. I just kept it waxed and was careful where I drove it. But I don't live somewhere where the roads are often sanded, so I'm sure that helps too.

 

I have 35,000 miles my tC and it has a crap load of rock chips. So bad that it is starting to rust. I need to get CF hood.

 

so how do u install the clear bras i thought they just stuck on like vinyl decals?