I was washing it today and spraying it with a hose and I hit a small spot and some paint flaked and shot off. It looked as if it was already beginning to peel before I washed it.
I know that warantee doesn't cover paint chips, but this is flaking, does anyone know if they'll handle this or should I just go get this taken care of myself?
brand new car I think I would go back to the dealer and at least talk to someone. just remember to be silivised youll get further but you have not had it long enught for it to be pilling. And where did it flake off the hood a fender, ect. I have done some body and fender work in my life. heck even went to school for it. It even sounds like it could be another chevy paint type of problem. you know early 90 when the paint started flaking off chevys. so go talk to someone at the dealership.
I was washing it today and spraying it with a hose and I hit a small spot and some paint flaked and shot off. It looked as if it was already beginning to peel before I washed it.
I know that warantee doesn't cover paint chips, but this is flaking, does anyone know if they'll handle this or should I just go get this taken care of myself?
I posted a few weeks back about my clearcoat peeling off my front sub bumper on my 03-S but no one else seemed to have that problem,..With all the other problems the 05's rolla's are having I wouldn't be surprised that a new one is starting...If its flaking maybe they didn't even put a clearcoat on it I suppose thats possible....I would defiantly think that is a defect and take it back to the dealer, I think I read somewhere that the warrenty doesn't cover normal roadwear on your paint but covers defects...Good Luck and let us know what happens....Radd Guy
It's flaking on my right front fender, but it's completely on the side of the car nearer to the side mirror than the front. Yeah, I'll probably bring it back and have them take a look at it. I don't want this to be the beginning of a bigger problem.
We own two other Toyotas. A Tacoma and a Sienna, and they never have any of the problems that the Corolla has.
Flaking means no clear coat. Bring it back to have them run another layer of clear coat. Mike Philips of Meguiar's mentioned a similar story when somebody washed his car and paint was on the drying towel!
Well. new to the forums here and joined just for this reason to see if this is happening to anyone else. I have a 04 corolla LE and the front bumper is just getting worse, doing the same thing. Good luck with the dealer tho, if they can find something else to blame it on they will. We are not having a very easy time with them, but hopefully with finding a few more ppl on here we can change thier minds that thier cars actually do have defects from time to time... anyone else out there???
take it back, they should deal with it. Ford dealt with our van after we had it a couple years when all the black paint on the roof rack started peeling off and we had never used the damn thing! they replaced those pieces...
This is interesting. My 03 Camry with silver has chipped bad, not flaked. I wonder if silver color has issues? My green 96 corolla with 130k more miles on it has no more chips than the 03 with sliver? It just seems like a crappy paint job, but probably nothing I can do since it isn't flaking. I even bought this stuff link below, and the shine on my car, but a rock hits the paint and bye bye silver, showing black underneath. Damn my corolla never did this!
i have a few paint scratches touch up paint will take care of but no major problems going on 11K miles. I keep mine waxed good. What is going on with ur guys cars?
I am almost certain that they didnt primer the front bumper before they painted it. The paint isnt sticking to the body at all, it just starts flaking like crazy, could proly peel the whole front bumper off if I wanted to. I also have an 06 tC and a lot of ppl complain thier paint sucks on that car too, they just dont have a great layer of paint and clearcoat to keep rocks chips and such back. We are lookin at a new mazda 3 anyways, just would like toyota to fix a problem that is obviously thiers
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I suppose thats possible....I would defiantly think that is a defect and take it back to the dealer, I think I read somewhere that the warrenty doesn't cover normal roadwear on your paint but covers defects...Good Luck and let us know what happens....Radd Guy
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