2024 Tacoma, Paint defects! Look before you buy…

First off those California Dusters are crap and it's doing exactly what they always do.

Second. Those painted plastic fender flares have always looked like that. It's not a smooth texture to begin with and once it's painted it looks exactly as showed

 

This theory would explain all the dirt and craters.

 

From OP's post..............................
"I did not see any of these defects at first and I know what to look for.
Lighting needs to be right and the delivery area for my dealership They’re pretty much have no overhead artifical lighting except for natural light at the opening to the covered delivery garage area…
where Only light is at the entry points."

 

The more I look at the pictures of the defects, It doesn’t look like it came from a factory paint job, I’d be asking the dealership if they repainted it? Although they probably wouldn’t admit it.

 

Orange peel has been used on cars for over 30 years,very few cars do not have some orange peel.Manufacturers use it to hide some imperfections in the paint.It's also cheaper to paint the car with it.I've tried buying the new Z car twice in the last year and both times the cars had some orange peel in the paint that was pretty obvious.In fact I don't think I have had a car that didn't have some.It is also more common because of water based paints.

 

I disagree....
Its everywhere....
Its debris in the paint or the gun was spitting due to clogged tip, combination of both maybe
if it was damage it wouldnt be every panel....
The "fish eyes" are from contaminants like oils so the paint does adhere to the metal & you get low spots / thin paint.

My dealer owns a honda store right next door & their own body shop, would hope they would pump-out better paint finish that this...

 

I think he means something might have happened to the truck in transport that maybe left it with scratches all over the truck. Then someone along the way, the distributor, port or maybe the dealer decided to contract a new paint job and it was done in the cheapest possible way, sealing in all kinds of contaminants. It's a theory at least.

If you look at all of your door seams and door sills is there anything like a break in the paint? I'm sure you've already checked though.

 

I never suspected repaint but will look closer at upper door jams of roof-line for tape lines, when I get her back from dealer.
Look at the picture of the door with the magnifying glass, ZOOM-IN....
its like that entire entire door is riddled with splatter, debris, specks, etc...

Well if infact it was a repaint, would imagine they have a record of it which I will never know of it...
Maybe they'll be more incline to do the right thing in my situation........

 

FYI, every dealership keeps a computer record on each unit they have had on the lot which lists everything that happened to that unit and every penny they spent on it for repairs, preloads, upgrades etc. So if the OP had a salesman who is upstanding enough, he could look up that stock number and see if there's anything in the records to shed light on this. But my bet is the plant in Mexico was not following the processes to keep contaminants off before paint and not servicing the paint booth filters properly. As I said before, I've worked in a dealership body shop and I've never seen the level or extent of defects from a dealership job as those. The weak link in a paper trail is the shipper. They've been known to damage a vehicle then have a quickie low rent repair done before sending the vehicle on to the dealership. Because that looks like a backyard job to me but transit damage would usually be limited to a few panels, not the whole vehicle.

 

The reason I can’t see it coming out of the paint shop is that after the body gets painted by robots it goes through an oven and then there is an entire team of about 20 workers who inspect every panel and all defects are then repaired and if they can’t repair the major defects they will send it through the Topcoat booth again for recoat. I currently work in the Lexus paint shop that makes the Rx350.

 

good info!
Thats how I see it, sand storm within the factory paint facility......
Something went bad, really bad...
Ough well, I pay the ultimate price at the end...
End of the day, its really my fault....
I never inspected up high....
Lighting needs to be right to see the huge chunks in the panels that need to be repainted.
Dont think I ever looked at the roof where most of the shit is at....

 

I wouldn't say it's your fault for not looking. None of us look at stuff like that, that close. It's the assumption that since it's new there will be little to no blemishes.

Hell, I went over my Underground after your initial postings on this and while I could slap whoever washed it at port and the dealer, there wasn't any dirt nibs.

 

I also agree that it's in no way your fault. There were multiple points where someone had the responsibility to raise the red flag on this. They all failed. Once I bought a new Mustang GT at night. The dealership I bought from used to spray a shiny coating on the engine to make it look nice. I saw what I thought was overspray from that on the left fender. Next day I discovered extreme fish eyes. I also found a flat spare tire and a radio that didn't work. I got the run around until I reached my limit and I drove to the dealership service drive, spun the car sideways blocking both lanes and preventing anyone from coming in, locked the car and went to the manager's office. I refused to move my car. They saw things my way and fixed everything including pulling a radio out of another stock unit. When your next chat with corporate comes, I would float the advertising a bad product angle to help your case with a buy back. When driving around there will be lots of ooohs and ahhhs from people seeing a new model for it's first year. Those ooohs and ahhhs will turn into holy crap when this horrid paint job is pointed out. I would expect that when a corporate rep sees this in person they would trip over themselves to make it right. But then I always thing more of people than I should.

 

Yeah, were not there yet.....

 

Just wondering does your vin start with 3TM or 3TY?

 

3tm, what is the significants?

 

Also check to see when your Tacoma was made( sticker on front driver b pillar) and if it took a long time to get to the dealer it could indicate some kind of delay like pint damage during shipping.

 

The more paint issues I see posted, the more I believe the QC holds were for paint issues.

 

just the different factory where It could of been built

3tm is in baja
3ty is in guanajanto

Hopefully this isn’t a factory issue

 

You would think by this point toyota would have fixed the paint problem especially for how much they are charging for these trucks, it's unacceptable....how long has this been going on for?

Does the toyota 4runner have the same code white color as the tacoma and do they have issues?