Consolidated Super White 040 Paint Issue/Failure Thread - With Toyota Corp. Update

Seems like a lot of the issues are coming from 2017s made in Mexico (VIN starts with 3)

 

Mines a 2020 from TMMBC

 

Man this thread is giving me the sads because i really want to keep this truck for 20yrs.

2021 make 3yrs this Nov.

No major issues yet. A few minor paint chips here and there on side panels even.

 

That's mine. And I have the peeling happening on both rear doors and in the engine bay.

 

We’ll mine finally started to peel around the passenger rear door window… oh well

 

What year and where was it made? 5-Texas 3-Mexico.

 

I revisit this thread every few months and definitely bums me out Toyota isn’t doing anything. My 2014 is getting pretty bad.

I wonder if we all did a sort of “group buy” from a paint shop it would make it worth while to just repaint the entire cab.

would be cool to find a reputable mom and pop type place and give them business for the next 3+ years haha it seems there are hundreds of tacomas with the exact same issue

 

Yep. Front of hood, under hood, front fenders on the inside, rear passenger door. Toyota says to take a hike.

 

2019, 30k miles, starting to peel on the inside of the fenders where they hit the a-pillars.

VIN starts with 3.

 

I sure wish Toyota would own the super white paint issue on Tacomas, as they have on other Toyota and Lexus models. I just got my truck back yesterday after having the rear door on the driver’s side repainted. Same door on driver’s side, fuel door, and front were repainted last year. Toyota paid 3/4 under their goodwill program last year, but nothing this time. Still hope to recoup my $1500 at some point.

 

A friend’s and mine both have had this for a few years now (both 2016s). Another friends 2019 hasn’t started peeling yet. It seems to peel off to a point then stop. Blowing paint chips off with a water hose, um blows.

 

My 2016 has paint chipping off by the driver side passenger window and inside the hood.

 

I have been driving Toyotas exclusively form over two decades. My wife has had Toyotas since 1985. After we got the cold shoulder on my paint failure, she bought a new Honda...There might be a message here for Toyota.

 

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Honda also has had issues with clear coat and white paint.

 

What's everyone doing as a band-aid once the paint chips off??
My drivers side rear door has it in the typical spots like all the pics posted.
That was last April.
Now in the engine bay is starting to do it as well.

 

I'm just using the factory touch up paint. It's not the best look, but it has at least slowed the peeling/chipping in those areas.

 

How about someone way more technical than I post a link for all Tacoma Owners (White Paint) with failing paint contact in mass Toyota to let them know this is a big issue
for all owners. Set up a time frame of a week or? Big Numbers! The paint on my 06 is failing on several areas.

 

Those other car brands aren't having issues as early though. There's guys on here with 3 year old Tacomas with paint issues.

Toyota knows the issue too whitch is sad they won't help. My 23 has the same paint code but the process is now different, they actually add clear coat now. It's no longer a single stage process.

 

that Ice Cap instead of Super White? Thought I read on here that it was just a name change, still 040 paint code.

 

Is there a source that states a different process with added clear coat for 2023’s?