Does anyone know why the paint on my '06 Xa appears to scratch really easy? Has anyone else had a similiar problem? My car is Flint Mica which is a beautiful finish...when it's NOT SCRATCHED! I remember a 91 buick skylark which had a factory paint quality defect which resulted in my having the car repainted for free, TWICE.

 

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Yes, Scion paint does suck, what do you expect from a $13,500 car? Just take care of it and it'll be fine, put a coat of wax on it eery now and then...

 

My hood got hit by a rock so hard it took a chunk out of the metal. That one bothers me. I blame my wife. The paint was good (first 3,000) before my wife started driving the xA. And I blame her because she took a chunk out of the paint around the lock with the key. I know I am hard on my stuff but I was never that hard on my car.

 

my car has 1100 miles on it and just got its first inch long strip of paint taken out of the hood. I was going to put rockblocker on it when I got home from school, too late now.

 

The paint is pretty bad. I'm only at about 5800 miles and I have rockchips all over my hood. I was able to touch up quite a lot of them with some paint, but they just keep coming. It definitely has even worse paint than our hyundai that's 4 years old, which is pretty bad. But I don't have many scratches elsewhere that I wasn't able to get rid of with some different products.

 

Increase your following distance and you should be able to avoid rock chips.

I've got 1200 miles on mine so far, and only one small nick above one of my foglights.

 

Most of my rockchips come from on-coming traffic on local highways, which really isn't easy to avoid, even if I were to drive half way on the shoulder. Besides that, gravel trucks are all over the place here and they seem to lose plenty of rocks on the roads. Heck, I was probably 1/4 mile from a gravel truck on the freeway in canada and a rock still managed to hit my windshield. ... I only had a couple (2 or 3) for a long time, but ever since the construction zones popped up it has gotten much worse.

 

Eesh..all these cars getting their paint chip..maybe I should rethink about getting a white xA since scratches and what not is very visible on white cars.

 

The dealer explained, I have reason to think he's truthful, that white is the hardest and black is the softest. That the new mcia paints do not oxidize since they aren't metalflake anymore so get red if you really want it.

I chose the nice clean white. Reminds me of the old white Model A. Looks good.

 

Honestly, what I said sounds much worse than it really is. I'm talking about tiny chips for the most part, which can be touched up very easily. Also, if you really are interested in buying a white xA, it will probably be even easier to touch up any chips you may get. So yes, the paint may be a little bit more prone to scratches and chips, but that shouldn't keep you from buying the xA since it is still a great car.

 

doesn't matter what car you buy its a standard now from what i've heard using less paint. which yes chips and scratches more easily. it does however save on cost, and weight of the vehicle this further propells the gas mileage as well.

 

i just got my car so far so good, but i had the xa flint mica and my friends brother put a huge scratch on the hood...glad i plan on getting mine re painted fushia

 

One of the guys that we do business with at work owns a paint shop and he's agreed to repaint my xA for $500. Thats just stock black sand pearl over again and a couple clearcoats. If I wanted it media blasted, primed, and repainted to polar white (the color that I really want, but I had no choice since I inherited my xA from my brother...) it would be a $2000 job. I've got all sorts of little scratches and chips on the hood from rocks, etc. Do you guys think that a better/new coat of better paint will reduce the chances that I will get chips? Also, what other colors could I do without having media blasting? Like any other darker silver or blue colors? Thanks for any help!