Anyone have a problem with paint chipping on a 5 month old 525?
Live in Wash DC suburb... so our birds may have special diets but I hose the car down periodically to prevent bird **** from staining, but I got a couple of spots on the hood where paint has crackled and chipped off... don't know if it's the birds, or defective paint... most unfortunate!
Anyone encounter this?
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Is it clear coat? Or is it through the paint to the aluminum?
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Just read your post about chipping paint.
I picked up my 06 525i 2 weeks ago.
Last Friday I noticed I had a chip in the hood. I thought it was a rock chip. I washed the car saturday and started finding little whitish spots on the hood and truck lid. I also found one on the driver's door panel. I tried to remove it with my fingernail and it chipped off to the primer.
I met with the service and general manager at the dealership on Monday.
We found around 15 spots on the car. They were perplexed as to what it is.
I am meeting a paint specialist there on Tuesday to see what he thinks.
I told them do what they want, but I want a new car.
They told me to let them first figure out the problem.
I contacted BMW NA and informed them via email. They called me back and told me to let the dealer figure it out first.
I am so pissed, I still don't feel like this is my car.
What color is your car? Mine Orient Blue.
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The color of my 05 525 is Silver Grey. And the chipping is through to the aluminum about 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch area surrounded by a crackling zone of about an inch square. This is very concerning indeed.
Let us know what your paint specialist tells you Billy.
An odd comment was made by a guy that does auto detailing about a couple of months after I bought my car. This is before the chip appeared. He looked at the paint and said "this does not have a clear coat on it". I thought he's pulling this out of his you know what so that I would use his service (which I did not).... . This was at a time where we had heavy pollen in the DC area and I thought that made the paint look dull. But now I am thinking the detailing guy may have been right. The chip is on the hood closer to the windsheild. And there is no sign of damage due to a dent, rock, etc. It really looks like you took a heat gun to it just like when you're trying to strip paint.
Very concerning indeed. I wonder if there is a global problem.....
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Can you guys post some pics?
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Paint Chipping on an 05 525i