Cracked paint

swanie29

Hi guys any one know if a main dealership would cover a car if the paint was started to crack. Only bought the car at the March only notice this today I do keep an eye on the body work . It's a 2010 car and was given 6 month warranty. Is this covered under warranty.

Cheers

Tigger

swanie29 wrote: »

Hi guys any one know if a main dealership would cover a car if the paint was started to crack. Only bought the car at the March only notice this today I do keep an eye on the body work . It's a 2010 car and was given 6 month warranty. Is this covered under warranty.

Cheers

Cracking paint means a repair
Bring it to a body shop and get an appraisal so you know what your dealing with

swanie29

Tigger wrote: »

Cracking paint means a repair
Bring it to a body shop and get an appraisal so you know what your dealing with

Does it fall under warranty

Atlantic Dawn

swanie29 wrote: »

Does it fall under warranty

I think he means your car may have been crashed and then repaired and it's the repaired paint that is cracking.

swanie29

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I think he means your car may have been crashed and then repaired and it's the repaired paint that is cracking.

Nissan told me it was never crashed
When I was buying it

JoeA3

You should post a few pics of what you mean. Is the paint cracking right through to the metal or is it lacquer peel? Both would point strongly towards a poor respray job.

There aren't many used cars on dealer forecourts that haven't seen "some" new paint. Nothing wrong with that so long as it's done properly but main dealers often tend to use smart repairers "man in a van with an aerosol can" fellas just to tidy up minor scuffs and scratches... I bet that's what has happened in this case.

mickdw

It could be cracked paint due to you or someone else bending or denting the bodywork or it could be an old repair.
Pictures would be good.

swanie29

mickdw wrote: »

It could be cracked paint due to you or someone else bending or denting the bodywork or it could be an old repair.
Pictures would be good.

Hopefully that helps

zilog_jones

That doesn't look cracked, it looks like a poorly repaired scratch.

swanie29

zilog_jones wrote: »

That doesn't look cracked, it looks like a poorly repaired scratch.

Could a kid of done that with there bike or could the heat have caused it

ciarsd

swanie29 wrote: »

Could a kid of done that with there bike or could the heat have caused it

There's your answer

zilog_jones wrote: »

That doesn't look cracked, it looks like a poorly repaired scratch.

zilog_jones

Unless you applied the touch up paint (badly), then it's not something that's happened since you bought the car

KK4SAM

That looks like a cover up of an existing scratch and the camouflage has aged.
It would buff up again so it doesn't stick out.
Normal wear and tear on a six year old car I wouldn't expect there and cover.

swanie29

zilog_jones wrote: »

That doesn't look cracked, it looks like a poorly repaired scratch.

Close up

swanie29

zilog_jones wrote: »

That doesn't look cracked, it looks like a poorly repaired scratch.

Trying to upload better pic it's to big

dodzy

swanie29 wrote: »

Hopefully that helps

My money is on a scratch repair kit from Halfords or similar. Pait was applied over scratch but no clearcoat/laquer. They are useless for anything more than a stone-chip.

swanie29

dodzy wrote: »

My money is on a scratch repair kit from Halfords or similar. Pait was applied over scratch but no clearcoat/laquer. They are useless for anything more than a stone-chip.

Should the garage cover this under warranty

cgc5483

swanie29 wrote: »

Should the garage cover this under warranty

What does your warranty say. Never seen anything on a used car warranty other than engine and gearbox. As others pointed out a 6 year old car will be bound to have some marks.

pippip

swanie29 wrote: »

Should the garage cover this under warranty

I doubt it, as others have said, generally warranty is gearbox and engine and even at that can be a fight to get things sorted.

If the warranty covered the paint repair in question, then you could pick out every imperfection on the car and expect it to be covered which just isn't realistic.

swanie29

cgc5483 wrote: »

What does your warranty say. Never seen anything on a used car warranty other than engine and gearbox. As others pointed out a 6 year old car will be bound to have some marks.

The fact that this as you guys have said repaired before does not that count for anything. Also could the sun have caused this. I do understand cars of 6 years have a couple of marks on them and i know there is a few there. But this is paint work

JoeA3

That's a touch up paint brush job on a minor scratch, done by either the dealer or the previous owner. It's not really anything to worry about and I doubt it's gotten worse since you bought it or that it will get any worse. Is it possible that it was always like that since you had it and you've only seen it now?
Unless it's in a really obvious location and it's really annoying you I'd leave it alone... to fix it 100% you'd need to respray the panel.

pippip

swanie29 wrote: »

The fact that this as you guys have said repaired before does not that count for anything. Also could the sun have caused this. I do understand cars of 6 years have a couple of marks on them and i know there is a few there. But this is paint work

The fact its a repair doesn't really matter, it was obviously a scrap rather than a crash.

I don't think anything is "causing" this. I reckon they polished the sh!t out of it and that's possibly slowly wearing down revealing it more. I wouldn't be too worried about it apart from appearance.

Unfortunately it is something you probably should have spotted when purchasing the car and you could have talked them down slightly.

swanie29

it was not there at the time of buying the car

pippip

swanie29 wrote: »

it was not there at the time of buying the car

It had to have been, I have an exact same repair on my car.

There is no way that is a paint reaction of any type, you can see the different level in original paint and the new paint on top of it.

Any other family members drive the car and may not have been honest?

pippip

What may be happening is the repair paint is fading so as time goes on its looking more and more obvious.

swanie29

dodzy wrote: »

My money is on a scratch repair kit from Halfords or similar. Pait was applied over scratch but no clearcoat/laquer. They are useless for anything more than a stone-chip.

Should the garage cover this under warranty

JoeA3

swanie29 wrote: »

it was not there at the time of buying the car

It was. Or someone else is driving it and had a minor "incident", got it touched up and didn't tell you.

I'm assuming the latter scenario is highly unlikely, so yes, it was there when you bought it and you're only seeing it now.

pippip

swanie29 wrote: »

Should the garage cover this under warranty

If they had actually done the repair themselves with receipts, and I doubt they have, then possibly.

But under the warranty that came with the car then as previously mentioned no, it wont be covered. The only sure answer you will get is from the garage, nobody here can say for sure.

JoeA3

swanie29 wrote: »

Should the garage cover this under warranty

How? It's not a warranty job

There's hardly a car on the road that hasn't had some minor paint touch ups. The only problem in this case is that the touch up isn't great. But to fix something like that 100% is a panel respray.

swanie29

JoeA3 wrote: »

How? It's not a warranty job

There's hardly a car on the road that hasn't had some minor paint touch ups. The only problem in this case is that the touch up isn't great. But to fix something like that 100% is a panel respray.

Fair enough I thought it was just a touch up needed under the garage

swanie29

pippip wrote: »

The fact its a repair doesn't really matter, it was obviously a scrap rather than a crash.

I don't think anything is "causing" this. I reckon they polished the sh!t out of it and that's possibly slowly wearing down revealing it more. I wouldn't be too worried about it apart from appearance.

Unfortunately it is something you probably should have spotted when purchasing the car and you could have talked them down slightly.

I would of notice as there is a scratch in the paint to the right of it so I would of notice it I would of thought

swanie29

Once it won't get worse it probably be OK

dodzy

swanie29 wrote: »

Should the garage cover this under warranty

No, i'd confidently say.

Voodoomelon

Warranty? You have to be joking.

It's plain to see that the blemish is made up of 3 stone chips or similar; one at the bottom, one in the middle and one at the top. Whoever touched it up dragged a touch up brush over all three in one stroke, possibly years ago.

This has nothing in the slightest to do with warranty, if you want it perfect, pay to have the whole panel repaired yourself.

Atlantic Dawn

Is it possible you bought the car, you then at some stage had the car in to get a service, tyres or some other job done somewhere and that place scraped the car and then used touch up paint to fix it? That's the only way I can think that if the repair was 100% not there at time of sale that it's there now.

swanie29

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Is it possible you bought the car, you then at some stage had the car in to get a service, tyres or some other job done somewhere and that place scraped the car and then used touch up paint to fix it? That's the only way I can think that if the repair was 100% not there at time of sale that it's there now.

it is possible but the garage nissan them selves are the only ones but they never had the car longer than two hours

dodzy

swanie29 wrote: »

it is possible but the garage nissan them selves are the only ones but they never had the car longer than two hours

It's tiny. You could easily have missed. it IMO.

JoeA3

swanie29 wrote: »

it is possible but the garage nissan them selves are the only ones but they never had the car longer than two hours

A touch up like that would have taken someone 5 minutes to do :pac:

Look, as pointed out, it is clearly a series of stone chips / minor scuffs that were clumsily touched up with a touch-up paint brush - either by the dealer or by the car's previous owner. There's no more to it than that.