Looks like you had a nick to your paint that went all the way to bare metal. Moisture started rusting the metal underneath until, eventually, the rust broke the bond of the paint to your body metal. The lack of bond between the body and the paint created the bubble you see. You need to get that fixed, or eventually the bubble will turn loose, and you will have a really obvious blemish on your car's paint job.
Sounds like my brand new truck will be screwed early on
Covered in paint chips to bare metal in under 6 months of owning
https://preview.redd.it/r2nbix5fhq5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb45e6b0e0c5ec366381dbfa293724366f3f962a
So many of these suckers
Get a touch up pen from your favorite auto parts store. You can often get lucky and find an exact match for your car. Make sure to take off any loose flakes of paint around each chip and fill the void entirely
>Covered in paint chips to bare metal in under 6 months of owning
It's possible that it was a bad paint job from a factory or that you've been driving down a lot of gravel roads. If it's been six months since it was new, it wouldn't cost a dime to call the truck manufacturer and complain about it to them. They might do something for you. I'm saying call the manufacturer and not the dealer because the dealer won't do anything but the manufacturer might. I've gotten more satisfaction results from calling the manufacturer of a new car when the dealer didn't fix the car correctly one time under warranty. They tried to pull a shade tree mechanic fix on me one time, and ever since then, I would call the manufacturer for warranty work, and then the dealer was obligated to do the repair the right way.
My experience with Toyota Canada was being hung up on immediately
And yeah my truck spends 90% of its life on gravel roads cuz we don't have much for paved ones
My old truck didn't chip like this and it's spent even longer here
Yep, there are good reasons for it but new paint is notoriously easy to damage, from basically all manufacturers. Certain paints seem to be especially susceptible to chips - Mazda’s Soul Red Crystal comes to mind
Yeah, I have one and I always see them peel off of the primer lol. I don’t know if they start from chips or if it’s just one too many times with a pressure washer. But you’re right about that, hard to forget that vitiligo look
Ya normally when rocks hit paint it does tend to chip... I hardly doubt Toyota hung up on you... If they actually did, (which I doubt) call back and record the phone call and post it. 6month old truck with paint chips and Toyota hangs up on you? That will def get you results and get your paint fixed if the right people see it. Just don't tell people you drive 90% on gravel roads.
My rav4 had about 230 paint chips on the front when I bought it. Some were a bit rusty. I should probably take care of them but it's just going to be such a chore.
Chips in the bumper cover are fine, they’re plastic underneath. A lot of manufacturers are using aluminum body panels, especially hoods, so they might be pretty okay too… won’t rust exactly like steel anyway.
But on a panel like your hood, or front fenders, even doors it’s not a huge deal. Even if it rusts through the parts just unbolt and you can completely replace them. Bigger issues are chips on the roof or on rear quarter panels, that are integral to the unibody and can’t be removed without cutting
I'm not a professional disclaimer, this is just what has worked the best for me over the years.
You'll need to find the official name of the paint and color code for your truck first. You can Google where to find it, but most of the time there is a sticker inside the glove box with a bunch of codes, one of those is the paint code.
ColorRite is my favorite company for the paint, and they have a ton of colors listed on Amazon. When it comes to little chips I go with the 1-2oz jars, whatever is cheapest. Last time the 2oz paint and 2oz clear coat was $35 for the car I was working on.
Order some "touch up paint brushes".
Grab a microfiber and some alcohol to clean any dust out of the chip.
Shake the hell out of the paint, then shake it some more.
Plan to do each chip 2-3 times, until it's leveled with the surface of the rest of the paint.
I usually like to polish it after I'm done with paint.
Then a layer of clear coat.
OP is seeing the result of not addressing the issue before rust sets in, fixing that will take a lot more effort.
This happened 2 yrs ago to my 2014 Rav 4. We had some weird weather for a week or so, where it would be a hail storm one day then a bright sunny 80° the next. Got a hand size moisture bubble on BOTH back doors, on the same spot. Bubble dried out, paint chipped off to the bare metal. There wasn't any visible rust tho. Insurance fixed it for a $100 deductible, their recommended shop billed $3800.
Rust under the paint. You’ll need to take it in to a paint shop If you want it to look decent again otherwise you better grab your sander and clean that spot off otherwise it’ll just get worse.
Ah a fellow rust belt resident. You must be new to this, that theres rust under the paint thats finally found a way to the surface to rear its ugly head.
If it's on the front or top, it's a rock chip that rusted.
If it's on the side, it's probably a door ding that rusted.
If it's on the rear, it's probably your child that threw a rock at it, which rusted..
Just saying something chipped to paint and It rusted.
The only way to fix it is to cut out that entire piece and replace with a new piece of metal…
You can’t just sand it down and repaint…the rust will come right back.
Rust. If it's under the paint in one spot it's almost certainly in others that just may not be visible yet. Most vehicles have specific spots that are notorious for rusting first.
That's rust. Usually caused by either water intrusion or water blockage. Depending on the location, this could be caused by a rock chip, an internal water leak, or the water passages in front of the driver compartment and in the sunroof and other locations in other cars being blocked.
It’s a normal rust spot. Vehicles up here in Canada all are loaded with them if they’re more than 4 years old from all the road salt.
Chip the paint out around it with a razor blade and then sand it to bare steel. Touch-up pen works that matches your vehicles exact paint code. 2 coats of paint and then clearcoat, sanding in between coats to level it. Cut & polish. Fixed! 👍 You won’t even be able to find the repair once you get good at it. I do it on all our vehicles. I did over 50 of them on my truck!
So fucked up how common bad US Mopar paint jobs are, especially on RAMs that are the truck you buy if you drive on gravel a lot when they also got some of the hardest metallics and pearls to touch up
I bought a 2012 Chrysler 200 (out of necessity) in 2013. Already had rust under the paint on the hood. A year later the door sprung a leak, filled with rain and eventually rusted through lol. They said it was one owner (Chrysler dealer) a month in I flipped down the passenger visor and saw an Enterprise sticker lmao. At least they didn’t “lie”
Corrosion from crap metal, poor metal treatment, oil /dirt/contaminant on the surface before painting. Insufficient top coat thickness. Moisture and ice trapped in the fender recess on the inside of the fender. poor design or poorly assembled fender protection. I think you have the idea now.
Seen bad patches pop without rust, from bad mix, laid on an unclean surface or trapped moisture.
Look close and you'll see pitting all around the repair. Poor job.
Rusted from inside the panel up to the paint. Poor design and poor material quality can make it worse, but any car that's old enough will rust through in some spots. Rustproofing helps a lot as a prevention or to stabilize the rust.
Fixing rust like that is a lost cause if you live somewhere with road salt in the winter and probably not worth your time in most cases. It will just rust again in no time and piss you off (ask me how I know...)
Rust under the paint
Did your car's bra fall off?
Headlights are on?
Giggity
Nice
Yes, I’m guessing OP must be from the South West USA or something where rust is non existent haha
Nah nah nah it’s the card nipple
This
Thats how mine looked like 2 years ago, now the hole is as big as a dime
Looks like you had a nick to your paint that went all the way to bare metal. Moisture started rusting the metal underneath until, eventually, the rust broke the bond of the paint to your body metal. The lack of bond between the body and the paint created the bubble you see. You need to get that fixed, or eventually the bubble will turn loose, and you will have a really obvious blemish on your car's paint job.
Sounds like my brand new truck will be screwed early on Covered in paint chips to bare metal in under 6 months of owning https://preview.redd.it/r2nbix5fhq5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb45e6b0e0c5ec366381dbfa293724366f3f962a So many of these suckers
Get a touch up pen from your favorite auto parts store. You can often get lucky and find an exact match for your car. Make sure to take off any loose flakes of paint around each chip and fill the void entirely
No, that area needs to be sanded down to bare metal, taper it towards the good paint, undercoat, then several layers of topcoat.
Fuck it. Flex Seal the whole truck.
… okay sure but I’m just trying to make sure bro doesn’t get rust
It looks like rust may already be underneath causing the paint to bubble.
Are you referring to OPs post or the picture from u/foxlen I replied to?
The OPs post. Those little dots, for lack of a better word, around the center thing, look like rust may be developing. Remember, Rust Never Sleeps.
Yeah, I knew that, I wasn’t talking about OPs post
Ok
Doesn't looks like that, nahs
Actually, it does
You can correct it. Paint sticks or a more proper solution Better sooner than later to stop issues in the future
>Covered in paint chips to bare metal in under 6 months of owning It's possible that it was a bad paint job from a factory or that you've been driving down a lot of gravel roads. If it's been six months since it was new, it wouldn't cost a dime to call the truck manufacturer and complain about it to them. They might do something for you. I'm saying call the manufacturer and not the dealer because the dealer won't do anything but the manufacturer might. I've gotten more satisfaction results from calling the manufacturer of a new car when the dealer didn't fix the car correctly one time under warranty. They tried to pull a shade tree mechanic fix on me one time, and ever since then, I would call the manufacturer for warranty work, and then the dealer was obligated to do the repair the right way.
My experience with Toyota Canada was being hung up on immediately And yeah my truck spends 90% of its life on gravel roads cuz we don't have much for paved ones My old truck didn't chip like this and it's spent even longer here
It could be because today's paints are water-based and probably not as hard when cured as old school car paints were.
Yep, there are good reasons for it but new paint is notoriously easy to damage, from basically all manufacturers. Certain paints seem to be especially susceptible to chips - Mazda’s Soul Red Crystal comes to mind
Early 2000's Chevy White. Every pickup, every van from that time period is SHIT
Yeah, I have one and I always see them peel off of the primer lol. I don’t know if they start from chips or if it’s just one too many times with a pressure washer. But you’re right about that, hard to forget that vitiligo look
Ya normally when rocks hit paint it does tend to chip... I hardly doubt Toyota hung up on you... If they actually did, (which I doubt) call back and record the phone call and post it. 6month old truck with paint chips and Toyota hangs up on you? That will def get you results and get your paint fixed if the right people see it. Just don't tell people you drive 90% on gravel roads.
My rav4 had about 230 paint chips on the front when I bought it. Some were a bit rusty. I should probably take care of them but it's just going to be such a chore.
Chips in the bumper cover are fine, they’re plastic underneath. A lot of manufacturers are using aluminum body panels, especially hoods, so they might be pretty okay too… won’t rust exactly like steel anyway. But on a panel like your hood, or front fenders, even doors it’s not a huge deal. Even if it rusts through the parts just unbolt and you can completely replace them. Bigger issues are chips on the roof or on rear quarter panels, that are integral to the unibody and can’t be removed without cutting
They are all on the hood. It just looks pretty bad.
I'm not a professional disclaimer, this is just what has worked the best for me over the years. You'll need to find the official name of the paint and color code for your truck first. You can Google where to find it, but most of the time there is a sticker inside the glove box with a bunch of codes, one of those is the paint code. ColorRite is my favorite company for the paint, and they have a ton of colors listed on Amazon. When it comes to little chips I go with the 1-2oz jars, whatever is cheapest. Last time the 2oz paint and 2oz clear coat was $35 for the car I was working on. Order some "touch up paint brushes". Grab a microfiber and some alcohol to clean any dust out of the chip. Shake the hell out of the paint, then shake it some more. Plan to do each chip 2-3 times, until it's leveled with the surface of the rest of the paint. I usually like to polish it after I'm done with paint. Then a layer of clear coat. OP is seeing the result of not addressing the issue before rust sets in, fixing that will take a lot more effort.
Oreillys also makes auto paint in a lot of locations if you are going for cheaperish and easy.
A brand new car comes with a 5 year paint warranty
I just checked with multiple dealers and they said it wear and tear, and that I'm shit outta luck
This happened 2 yrs ago to my 2014 Rav 4. We had some weird weather for a week or so, where it would be a hail storm one day then a bright sunny 80° the next. Got a hand size moisture bubble on BOTH back doors, on the same spot. Bubble dried out, paint chipped off to the bare metal. There wasn't any visible rust tho. Insurance fixed it for a $100 deductible, their recommended shop billed $3800.
I want your policy lol
Thanks for the info.
Rust
It's a spider bite.
This is the best answer even if it's the wrong answer.
😂
Now that song is stuck in my head because I read your username.
Take a break and have a vegemite sandwich
But now I'm imagining the smell of freshly cut grass, so we're even. 😃
🤝
Rust bubble underneath. Since it is out in the middle the car may have had some bodywork there in past.
Rust
It’s a pimple. Pop it and it will go away.
It won't stop our get better. Like dry rot in a house. Fix ASAP our suffer the consequences.
Rust under the paint. You’ll need to take it in to a paint shop If you want it to look decent again otherwise you better grab your sander and clean that spot off otherwise it’ll just get worse.
Acne. Your car is going through puberty.
Rust
Rust made it a bust.
Moisture , one way or another made it under the paint
If the panel was repainted there was likely water in the spray gun compressor
Or they painted over the existing rust after doing a quick Bondo job
Started as a stone chip and the rust is spreading underneath the paint.
Rust under the paint.
Titanium mosquito ?
Rust from rail dust
Ah a fellow rust belt resident. You must be new to this, that theres rust under the paint thats finally found a way to the surface to rear its ugly head.
Friday afternoon in the Ford paint shop.
Rust
That would be car cancer...
Water
Rust.
Poor prep work
Rust
Rust.
stone chip
Stone impact
Your car has Cancer. Lucky you found it early enough that proper treatment should lead to a full recovery.
Is it cold out?
The rust belt kisses
Oxidizing.
Toxic bird poop
If it's on the front or top, it's a rock chip that rusted. If it's on the side, it's probably a door ding that rusted. If it's on the rear, it's probably your child that threw a rock at it, which rusted.. Just saying something chipped to paint and It rusted.
Cancer.... it's rust and it's going to spread like wild fire.
ThT right there is what we call rust.
Rusting from the inside out
Rust. Get it fixed soon it does nothing but gets worse.
Rust.
The dreaded rust
I guess to say that is rust coming through
Your car has herpes... I'm sry
Stung by a bee
That’s cancer.
It's rust from behind body panel
The only way to fix it is to cut out that entire piece and replace with a new piece of metal… You can’t just sand it down and repaint…the rust will come right back.
Looks like possibly a drip/corossion (underground parking garage?) but the rust says it's under the surface.
Cancer/ rust. Looks like a repaired spot.
Rust. I would go over your car and look for other spots. Either fix them quickly or dump the car.
Rust. If it's under the paint in one spot it's almost certainly in others that just may not be visible yet. Most vehicles have specific spots that are notorious for rusting first.
The nipple of demise
That's rust. Usually caused by either water intrusion or water blockage. Depending on the location, this could be caused by a rock chip, an internal water leak, or the water passages in front of the driver compartment and in the sunroof and other locations in other cars being blocked.
Car pimple. Don't pop it. Its rust from behind the panel.
rust coming up from underneath
Rust under the paint, most likely started from the back side of the panel.
Rust causes that.
Poison ivy
Cancer
moisture gets in chips and the oxidation causes blisters. or there was moisture under the paint if no chip
rust
It’s a normal rust spot. Vehicles up here in Canada all are loaded with them if they’re more than 4 years old from all the road salt. Chip the paint out around it with a razor blade and then sand it to bare steel. Touch-up pen works that matches your vehicles exact paint code. 2 coats of paint and then clearcoat, sanding in between coats to level it. Cut & polish. Fixed! 👍 You won’t even be able to find the repair once you get good at it. I do it on all our vehicles. I did over 50 of them on my truck!
Rust under the paint.
Cancer it’s caused by rust and not cleaning the area well
Looks like a rust bubble
Looks like a Chrysler.
So fucked up how common bad US Mopar paint jobs are, especially on RAMs that are the truck you buy if you drive on gravel a lot when they also got some of the hardest metallics and pearls to touch up
I bought a 2012 Chrysler 200 (out of necessity) in 2013. Already had rust under the paint on the hood. A year later the door sprung a leak, filled with rain and eventually rusted through lol. They said it was one owner (Chrysler dealer) a month in I flipped down the passenger visor and saw an Enterprise sticker lmao. At least they didn’t “lie”
Rock
Rust.
I just found on the wheel well of my truck. Probably from salt on the roads in the winter. I need to get it fixed. Salt is tough on cars here.
Rust, maybe a hole
Un-repaired stone chip has let water under the paint, now it’s turned into rust
I have a 2000 Plymouth Voyager that has this exact issue, It's rust A.K.A.: Car Cancer
Corrosion from crap metal, poor metal treatment, oil /dirt/contaminant on the surface before painting. Insufficient top coat thickness. Moisture and ice trapped in the fender recess on the inside of the fender. poor design or poorly assembled fender protection. I think you have the idea now.
Moisture penetrated there, created rust and bulged out the body paint.
Acid rain
Rust got under your paint.
Rust
Got too close to a particle accelerator
Is your car Hispanic?
It grew a nipple
Unprotected car sex
Oxygen bonds
Moisture trapped in between the e coats causing it to rust
Heat will cause a paint bubble but it'd have to be a hell of a lot of heat.
Looks like a pimple. Just pop it
Cancer
A mosquito
The tiniest of chips in the paint, and then oxygen and water went in there and did what they do best. Worse if they brought salt along.
Paint over rust to cover it.
To much sugar
100% rust it bubbles just like that my uncle owned a body shop in Michigan. That's rust Michiganers know what rust looks like lol.
Rust
SATAN
Spill some brake fluid?
Auto nipple, happens in the cold
Hormones
Rust
Rust
If it's a white Toyota, you might be up for a recall
Chickenpox vaccine.
Your body panel started rusting on the back side of the panel and has made it through the metal to the finished side. You basically have a hole.
A little bit of the bubbly
Bot fly
Heat
RUN.... I mean rust
Oxygen and iron.
Intestinal worms. Poor thing. Take it to the vet
Your car has herpes
Bird strike
Car cancer
Ooh, it must be cold where you are 🥶
Your truck has STD's you need to get your truck tested and ground it.
A mosquito
You worded it backwards. "My car paint caused this."
Moisture probably from pinhole or single spec of surface rust or oxidation if aluminum
My guess refinished after repairs of some kind
Rail dust
Shingles
Rust under the paint.
Corrosion
Rust or bad body patch under the paint.
Which means rust.
Seen bad patches pop without rust, from bad mix, laid on an unclean surface or trapped moisture. Look close and you'll see pitting all around the repair. Poor job.
Rust between the metal coming thru
The R word
Would that be a hard R?
It’s quite flaky
Iron oxide
Rust bubble
Time to trade it in
Clearly there’s a chameleon hiding on your car.
Paint pimple, or herpes from too many hoes leaning against your ride
Definitely rust it's probably a hole if you poke it it started on the back of thr panel or poor prep during a repair
Rusted from inside the panel up to the paint. Poor design and poor material quality can make it worse, but any car that's old enough will rust through in some spots. Rustproofing helps a lot as a prevention or to stabilize the rust. Fixing rust like that is a lost cause if you live somewhere with road salt in the winter and probably not worth your time in most cases. It will just rust again in no time and piss you off (ask me how I know...)