yup i just dropped like $700 into all my little touch up spots... its a shame really...

 

You people should wrap your tCs in bubblewrap.

 

I have 33K miles on mine, and the front end looks like I have 333K. It looks like I plowed into a bag of powdered sugar, there's so many little white spots. Paint sucks.

 

why does the paint suck? cause it's a cheap car. duh.

 

Just in case you missed it before:

 

I beg to differ on the part of "It would have happened to any other car regardless."

In my tC, a piece of blown tire approx 10" wide and about a foot long struck the middle of my bumper on the lower edge. Scratched to high heaven, plastic was cut into, paint just flaked off. That happened after I went through the interchange, so that was at 45-50mph.

In my Jetta, a piece was kicked up at me, it was a similar piece, maybe a little thinner, but longer. It hit my lower bumper edge on the passenger side. This was further down the same highway, so I was doing 65-70mph. After it hit, I pulled over to check it, and all the marks rubbed off. When I got her home, I looked at the spot at all angles I could and not a scratch, dent, paint chip, nothing.

Just a small tidbit, I drive my jetta more on the highway than I did my tC. The tC to and from work was 30-40 minutes round trip on city streets. In my Jetta, its 45-60 minutes on 75% highway one-way.

Also, anybody notice this problem and Toyota bragging that all their paint plants do Water based paints now and not oil based? Coincedence?

And yes, the new Camry suffers the same issue as the tC.

 

so i'm guessing if i took into a detailing shop where they do the full detailing, it won't restore the paint back to or as near as when we got it at the dealership?

 

No, they're not magicians, so if your paint and/or clear coat is gone, there's nothing anyone can do short of touch-up paint... but obviously that won't look as good as new

Of course there's also full repainting but that's not a practical option

 

my paint sucks...

in the rear...where my hatch window meets the roof...looks like i have tiny rust spots

 

just got my first chip on my hood. it came with one on my windshield and a broken license plate cover. everything in this peice of sht town is under construction so it's nothing but fking dump trucks driving around everywhere kickign rocks and sht up. i am ____ed off.