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Does that help?
So far I haven't heard anything back from the Attorney Generals office where I filed
the complaint. I will try to contact them and see if they have contacted Toyota yet.
It would help if everyone else that is having paint chipping would also complain to the Attorney General as well. You can file a complaint online. I did go by an autobody shop yesterday and I asked about this environmentally friendly paint and the mans reply was that they've taken out things like lead that made paint more tough and now this water based paint is not holding up to the elements.
As soon as I hear something from the Attorney General I will let you know. Maybe I will check in to the arbritration as well. My concern is the paint and the fact that Toyota isn't honoring their factory warranty.
Perhaps you could start a petition and send it via email. Are we allowed to share our email addresses on this forum?
Who wants to start a petition and email it to the rest of us for us to sign and forward? Who can get this to the public thru news stations etc...
We all need to band together so lets have some volunteers to get the paint ball rolling.
http://www.lemonlawamerica.com/
http://www.dmv.org/lemon-law.php
Good Luck
MNF
MJFPilot
I just spent the last hour searching for others with this type of problem - use your favorite search engine - and found that not many have complained about this particular problem. If the problem was so widespread, it would certainly be all over the internet. You will find that there are paint chip complaints about almost every car make out there. Again the numbers are not significant. But if you happen to be one of the "unlucky few" with paint chip problems you don't care that maybe less than 0.1% of the cars seem to have this problem.
Read message #122 - it's from the individual who started this thread. He hasn't had a paint chip problem for awhile now.
PS Don't work for Toyota or any Japanese based company - nor does anyone I know.
brand new cars with paint chips on the hood. They were a 2008 Yaris and a 2008 Scion. Now here are two brand new cars with paint chips on their hoods and I don't see the dealership posting anything here about it. I know of people who do not even get on the internet which is reason to think there may be people out there with paint problems who are not posting them here or elsewhere on the web.
Now here is a new one for you. I had evidence of a mouse in my car last week and had to set a trap to get him for fear he would eat my seats. I did catch the mouse. Has anyone else had a mouse in there car?
Try this discussion: Animal/Pest Problems.
I have a 2005 S with no paint problems that I can see. I also have a 2008 Matrix XRS which seems to be okay so far. Sorry to hear about this problem. Perhaps it is regional depending upon where the car was manufactured. They (Toyota) no longer use the lead based paint, so that or the lack of the proper hardeners may be the cause of this issue as I have read. Good Luck!!
Did you ever have any luck with this? I have an 07 Corolla that is also chipping on the hood and my mechanic looked at it and states there is no paint on this hood to speak of. Sounds like poor quality paint job so I started searching and found this thread. Thanks for any response and things you have learned.
Googling "toyota paint problem" gave 126,000 hits.
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