Chipped Paint!

[skypros]

I Buy my new white 2002 Tundra on Friday 3/15/02.
I wash and wax the Tundra on Sunday 3/17/02,
I have less than 100 miles on the Tundra....and when washing it I notice a chip on the front right of my hood
Within 2 weeks I notice 4 more chips!!!
So I order a front end mask (bra) and before I can get the mask on the Tundra I get another Chip......
So with less than 1,500 miles and less than 3 weeks old I have 6 chips on my Tundra.

Later on I go look at my neighbors 1998 white Ford F150
and notice that he has NONE!!!!


HEY TOYOTA, YOUR PAINT JOB STINKS

[akauth]

Originally posted by Sweetwater
Me too. Imperial Jade Mica. Third Toyota truck and previous two had much less paint damage over much longer periods. In fact I noticed a rock chip on the right front corner just below the headlight. I went to the self serve car wash and as I sprayed the same area from a 2' distance saw the chip double in size. The paint around the chip may have been damaged as well prior but it seems very soft. I've gotten vey good with touch-up paint.

My hood is also speckled with white chip areas. I've had a bug deflector since purchase. Disappointing. Combined with a front rotor and pad replacment last week I have had more concerns in the first 18 months of ownership than my two previous trucks combined. Neither had a maintenance issue in 300,000+ miles (except for the V6 head gasket campaign). During that problem Toyota took my truck for a day and half, gave me a rental and took care of the problem well out of warranty (5 years and 60,000+ miles). My loyalty isn't gone but fading.

I'd be really careful with those self serve car washes. I can tell you from years of using them that (hey it is easy and what are you going to do during the winter) they are dangerous to your paint if you have imperfections.

Once the paint starts to deteriorate a bit, it will lift paint off quite easily and little chips become bigger over time. And those bigger chips become even bigger.

I'd keep a good distance away with that power sprayer and bring a towel to wipe off the remaining dirt film, don't try to blast it off. You'll blast the paint off too eventually. It WILL happen.

The only place I'll really use those is on the underside and even then I can touch up stuff down there and no one will notice (or care).

alan

[nhparrot]

I have had scotchcal on my Tundra since a few weeks after I got it in Oct 2000. I have a few random chips on my truck. The scotchcal is on the front 6" of the hood, around the grill, headlights, top of bumper, leading edges of Limited flares and on the mirror covers.

[jkc]

Anybody know if Toyota is using the same paint process on all their new vehicles now or just the Tundra? JKC

[HJSimpson]

I spent several weeks working at a PPG automotive paint plant as an outside contractor. They made Toyota, Honda, Chrysler, Ford, and Mitsubishi automotive paints. I can not tell you which Toyota paints were made there. The paints were tracked using numbers, not colors. I can tell you I was not impressed by the quality control or manufacturing procedures. Sub-standard paint sprayed thinly will lead to chips. Toyota should address the issue.

[dmtalon]

Everyone with chips/thin paint... go complain to the dealer. If you don't like what you get from the dealer, go to the regional manager.

We need number of people to complain before anyone will do anything.

[MOREPOWER]

This thread is really old but still relevant, I dint want to start another and its only fitting I post on a thread started in the same year as my Tundra.

Two years back I fixed numerous paint chips on my tundra, I though that was the end of it since it seemed to stop chipping, but just recently since the weather started getting cooler I started noticing a disturbing trend, today I found a 1/4 inch chip above the rear window no dent its like the primer under the paint gave way clean and separated from the electro coat i could peel the paint off, and my hood is chipped like the original post.

I swear the paint pops off in my driveway without anything hitting, my roof is full of chips, theres more of a problem here than just thin base and clear cote it goes down to brittle chalk like primer, to fix this would require stripping the paint down to the electro cote. This truck sits 95% of the time , I can deal with brakes and other things this is the worst problem to fix. it has no solution worth doing.

Other threads show the problem is still around with the 05 and 06 Tundras and Tacoma's. some how I think the 07 Tundra will still have this problem, if something is being done different with the 07 Tundra paint process please post it, its enough to make you buy a Chevy

[etillemans]

I have a 2006 Salsa Red double cab with about 12000 miles on it. The driving here is very easy going (little snow, good clean roads) and yet I have 30 to 40 chips in my paint already. My wife drives a 2001 Ford Expedition with 60,000 miles and not one chip and yet driven in the same conditions.

I have tons of chips above and below the headlights and on the hood. I also found chips on the side panels above the wheels, on the rail between the side windows and front windshield, on the roof, and a couple more on the rear side panel in front of the wheels.

Today I met with the dealer service manager and showed him the paint chips. He agreed there was a problem, but said he couldn't authorize any kind of fix and so set up an appointment with some regional manager in a few weeks. He also mentioned someone else bringing their tundra in the previous month for the same problem and the regional manager declined to fix it.

I'm skeptical toyota will help me out here.

[rezfly]

I've had my 2006 DC SR5 for two weeks now and while I still love it, I had a Chevy lover ask me today how I liked my truck. He said he was debating between the 2007 Chevy/GM or Tundra. He loved the Tundra's power rear full window, but he wasn't sure yet.

I had to warn him about the thin body & thin paint of the Tundra. I'm used to it as my Dakota had the same problem. My father's Fords (he's had F250, F350, & F650) had such a thick body and good paint that he would laugh at the other vehicles hiding under trees and overpasses during hail storms.

It's hard to judge other issues with his Fords as he had a heavy utility bed and used them to haul a CAT 4x4 Backhoe w/ extenda-hoe on a 36ft dovetail trailer most of the time... so you would expect more issues and he would get them up to 250k mi quickly.

Anyway, do we need to get a "professional" paint job on our new Toyotas to help prevent these paint chips? I'll have to wait and just use paint pens until it gets to be as bad as the pics posted earlier. but I have a lot of chips.

Just for grins, this pic is similar to my dad's last F-650 (his was white w/ utility bed)

[Hispeed]

Originally Posted by rezfly

Just for grins, this pic is similar to my dad's last F-650 (his was white w/ utility bed)

Now thats a truck!