new (07) civic paint issue

mmm, picked up my civic on Friday and noticed this on the roof today while waxing the the car.. Only noticed it really due to waxing and so I was carefully looking over the surface as I was polishing..

Rippled part looks lower than the rest of the paint work, like it was badly scratched and touched up? or is this just from a painting fault? The chip is in the same area and is down to bare metal by the looks of it..

'Damage' covers about a 20cm by 5cm area.. hard to photograph as light has to be catching it just right. Chip is around 3mm x 4mm. I think the bubble became a chip when I was polishing as I rubbed the bubble off, was very weak paint obviously.

So what can I do? just demand the roof is repainted? bit of a pain to have to give the car back after 3 days..

I thought it was too good to be true when they called me to say my car arrived two weeks early LOL

http://www.pbase.com/joele/image/87183635/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/joele/image/87183817/original.jpg

that just not right, you should ask for a repaint

that is bad. I would be taking that straight back to the dealer.

Send it back straight away! They should repaint it.

wtf is that

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Originally Posted by mrwillz

wtf is that

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poor quality control? ;)

That would be covered under warranty for sure 100%

wtf?? looks like the car had a problem and got rejected and the dealer just gave it to u and that explains the 2 weeks earlier arrival..

send it back and ask for a replacement.. even after respray u dont feel like it's a brand new car anymore

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Originally Posted by Jazzle

wtf?? looks like the car had a problem and got rejected and the dealer just gave it to u and that explains the 2 weeks earlier arrival..

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mmm, that was my first thought... :zip:

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send it back and ask for a replacement.. even after respray u dont feel like it's a brand new car anymore

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I'll try...

Cars don't get rejected. Even those that get into accidents when unloading just get fixed and sold as new cars.

looks like a close up of a bird shit stain. take it back asap

yeah man that looks like they used touch up paint to cover it up lol