Help! My paint is chipping on my FJ?!?

[ctg80]

Originally Posted by Targamond

2007 Voodoo Blue - I am presently trading mine in on a Tundra (for paint and other reasons). Within 8hrs of having bird droppings behind the passenger window the paint was removed to the white primer. I drive 130mi/day and have not had the windshield chipping/cracking problems, but I must agree that Toyota skimped on providing a quality paint coating on the FJ. The Tundra paint appears to be of a higher quality (when viewing side-by-side), so I am hoping this is a model-specific problem.

Hey guys. I'm just finding out about these details. I have a 2008 silver FJ Cruiser, and I have to admit that I also, in the first three months of owning it, found several chips on the paint. The dealer also told me it was because of the trip I make every morning to work, but I also explained it had never happened with my other cars. So they pretty much got rid of any responsibility. They even offered me that they could use some kind of brush to repaint the chips (special brush and original silver paint), and that would be on very low cost. Do you think Toyota will ever issue a recall regarding the paint problems?
Also, regarding the windshields, it is unbelievable, that only one month after driving it, my winsdhield got a little crack, and then in one more month, two more cracks, so I went to the dealer and had it replaced. I paid only 20% of the insurance policy, so it was not bad. After having my new windshield, 2 other cracks have appeared, and so this time I am going to wait at least for other 5 cracks, so I won't spend so much time having it fixed. Is this a problem of engineering? Is the glass of the windshield too thin? I would expect it to be thick, specially if the truck has 100% off road capabilitities and specifications.
Other than those, is the C pole, which is annoying at first, but you just got to get used to it, and after that, you use the other 'can't see' features.

[LifeTech]

The nature of this beast. Road chips just happen. Get yourself a $6 bottle of OE Toyota Touch up paint...Just bring the color code # to your dealers parts dept.. Or the chips will just rust out down the road at some point. The windshield seems to be a Flawed design in materials if yu ask me. Many FJ owners have vented on this . Google it.

Since the winshield is very much vertical and, due to the Drag coef. design of this body style, Toyota should have created a Harder and more appropriate glass. Period. Not a hard fix, but Toyota would only update this on a later gen FJ.
FYI,I would check into other aftermarket brands of windshields. Some FJ owners having been through several windshields already have discovered some better grades of Non-Toyota brand glass after their glass coverage would not completely reimburse for OE winshields after several claims were made in a short term.
Try one of those ugly looking Bug Deflectors. Some say they reduced the chances of chipped glass.
Yu are not alone.

[timbo86]

well went through arbitration and they did nothing. toyota won't step up to the plate and say that they are FALSE advertising with the "antichip paint". They will say yes they are rock chip or road debris but the fact is that the paint is crap. Also they fail to tell you that the blue and the yellow paint has no I said NO clear coat which makes it softer yet. They said that it was just a design flaw that is why so many chips are happening. We have a 95 white 4 runner and it has 2 chips. Also it has 140,000 miles. Seems as if their customer relations has gone to the wayside
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