Anybody know what’s going on with my paint?

[HenryMac]

Or it was damaged after it left the plant and "repaired" by the dealer ?

Or damaged by the shipper and painted before it ever got to the dealer by MAACO or ????...

My 1st new vehicle, an '85 GMC S15, arrived at the dealership and I was called to come look at it before they unloaded it. When I got there the truck was sitting on the car hauler semi with one side of the bed repainted, and buffing compound splattered all over the cab. The dealer offered to order me a new truck. I asked them to wash the truck and after I inspected it, the folks that did the repaint did a great job... actually better than the factory applied paint. We owned the truck for 12 years... never had an issues with the repaired bed panel.

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[rang19ca]

It looks like some one did a partial paint repair?

 

[treimche]

From what I've been told, it happens much more frequently than most people realize. Those types of things are quietly fixed.

I worked for a dealership for a few years, and you are 100% correct. These things happen constantly. This dealership I worked for wouldn't even send paint repairs on brand new vehicles to their body shop. They would have a guy come into the shop who had a van that he airbrushed out of. So he would be air brushing bumpers, wheels, and other body panels that were damaged on the way to the dealership. It was absolutely disgusting. They aren't called "stealerships" for nothing!

 

[xxEMOxx]

I worked for a dealership for a few years, and you are 100% correct. These things happen constantly. This dealership I worked for wouldn't even send paint repairs on brand new vehicles to their body shop. They would have a guy come into the shop who had a van that he airbrushed out of. So he would be air brushing bumpers, wheels, and other body panels that were damaged on the way to the dealership. It was absolutely disgusting. They aren't called "stealerships" for nothing!

Working with a tradein wholesaler for years, the tricks I saw staff and dealerships do to both new and used vehicles was down right SHOCKING!!! At least at first, then I just kept my mouth shut and learned what to look for and what they would try to pass off to us in wholesale lots and even in new car deals we brokered.

Being in the Midwest rust and hail damage are very common. Here alot of trade in 4x4s even those only a few years old tend to get sent out for "fender flares" ( hide bedside and front fender rust ) and rocker panel either chrome accents or some sort of offroad liner ( linex, rhino, or such ) again to hide starting rust because no one will see it come through again for 4 or 5 years and since its used it'll have changed hands a few times not our problem. I was told that time and time again when trucks we where brokering for them failed auction inspections.

Hail damage on new cars was crazy, one dealer got busted for having insurance total out his whole inventory damn near, hiring a PDR guy (paintless dent removal) and then taking them a state over and selling them off as unsold prior year inventory. They rarely if ever disclosed the hail repair, and only if caught red handed.

Infact between them and like 1 other small town dealership it keeps my S.O.'s buddies business doing PDR running year around off just their repair jobs.

 

[Arch Stanton]

Something splattered on surface prior to painting causing delamination.

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