i waxed mine the first week i had it and every other week after that and i've had no problems with chipping or anything like that. show your car love and it'll love ya back.

 

According to what I'd deem experts, it's ok to wax your new car:

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"After-market paint finishes, however, are cured at a much lower temperature to ensure the booth doesn't melt non-metal components. In this case, allow for a 2-3 month curing process before your first wax application."

maybe scion does something weird with the paint?

 

yeah i know what you mean by the stains and the chips ... because i myself have expirenced it. But the bird crap stains have seemed to go away.

 

Pictures, anyone? Chips and no chips?! Thx... oh yea and hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. God knows I've been stuffed to the brim for 2 days now!

 

It is NOT normal and NOT okay for a car that is less than a year old to be in need of a new paint job. Please take a few minutes to read this.

I highly recommend that if your paint is prematurely chipping, peeling, bubbling, etc., that you take 5 minutes to file a complaint with the NHTSA; the complaints are important and taken into account very seriously. I will be posting pictures of the chips on my hood/bumper in the next 2 days or so and I'd appreciate it a lot if any of you could do the same. I am entering arbitration with Scion very shortly and any outcome that benefits me can benefit all of you.


Click below to file a complaint with the NHTSA:

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq/index.cfm

 

My tC's finish is still showroom quality.

 

i have kinda the same problem on my grill of my indigo ink.....they said they buffed it out but its still there....how can u buff out paint peel and wavy paint?????? it just wanted painted right up top under the hood.....but instead of arguing with them cause they seem to do nothing right and kept breaking ____ on my car or messing it up. I just let it go. Now i have to deal with these 2 huge scraches/dents on my trunk. My friends and I were installing the springs in his garage and we had the garage door down and my hatch up. well when he used the electric opener to open the garage door he noticed it was scraping the hatch so he kept prssing the button to try and get the door to go back down and finally when it was fully closed hes like OH ____ i get out the car and see bad scratches

 

nm

 

New Cars should not have Peeling Paint!

 

Yes, thank you! Like I've been trying to say all along.. and please please please pretty please post or e-mail me some pictures of the front ends of your car, peeling or not! I do believe that it is selective colors that are prone to chipping/peeling and I'd like to prove this to Scion.

 

Try and get different color scions in the same area, that way it shows the diffenrence in the same road conditions. People post your locations as well with your pictures.

 

YES- that would be MOST helpful to me, thank you very much.

 

Here are some pictures of my chips, as promised.















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Give me a break.

Those look like typical rock chips from driving behind a dump truck or driving too close to semis on the highway.

Looks like you car was pelted, not a defect in the paint.

My friend's WRX front end looked exactly the same after 3 months of driving up in the mountains and getting pelted with gravel.

 

I'm sorry, but this guy is a moron. I detailed cars at a Toyota dealership, and every single car gets wax before it's even put on the lot, and again when it's sold. Matter of fact, every new car that comes off the hauler gets wax on it before it has like 10 miles on the car. Now, there may be types of wax that you can't use before 6500 miles or something like that, but I can tell you that your car was waxed before you even saw it (or it should have been!) It sounds like he's trying to not have to deal with your paint situation. I'd go in there and run that by his sales manager. He should be selling tokens at an arcade, not cars.

 

Thanks but I've actually been extremely cautious about trucks and keep a large distance or move to another lane completely if possible. Also, even if a car was to chip from a rock impact, the paint should not peel back from it and nearly triple in size in less than a month.

I've had more than one professional body shop tell me this is not normal. So, think what you like.

 

when i got mine i had a few scratches on the rear so i waxed it and i only hand wash my car when i go back maybe ill tell them about it but i dont think they will cover paint

 

Pics yet?? Anyone???? :oops:

 

they look like rock chips to me too. but the paint shouldn't spread from that area