Paint flaking off the front fender

Use a paint for plastic, or a laquer, othrewise it will crack and flake off. Also "prep" is very important.

rock guard is a coating that was/is used to stop stone chips and paint flaking hoping to stop rust and looks rough not like paint which is smooth.

There is a paint on rust converter . You paint it on the rust and it turns it back into metal . After that i would spray the rubberized under coating to protect it.

use a colormatching system with a flake remember qwhen it dries and gets clearcoated the color will change'

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Depends on where you live, if you live in very hot and humid weather conditions, many american cars start having that issue at an early age.

This is normal in a high sun type climate ,they all peel of flake as the laquar comes off due to the UV please dont blame the manufacturers but blame the enviromentalisats who insist that cars are painted with water based paints

Yea they all had bad paint. It flakes and peels and fades in spots. to fix it the car has to be completely sanded and repreped for paint

complain to the dealer and if they won't do anything ask to talk to a factory rep, this sould never happen, I had my truck repainted for this same issue.

Lots of rattles, which is surprising! Doors flexed over bumps, steering wheel creaks on low speed car park type turns, door trim gives off low amplitude noises from time to time. Paintwork defects on delivery - rear bumper dimpled, dirt in clear coat. Paint defects in use - one of the front fog light cut outs has flaking paint and the hatch is streaked after washer fluid ran down it from use several times. Driver's dash vent came adrift at one corner.