Paint issues ? Chips and flakes

[Ben Jardine]

I have a 2024 2500 hd i bought new in july 2023 currently has over 30 000 km on it 

Black crew cab 6.5 box 4x4 6.6 gas . Trucks bone stock factory good years on it and mudflaps. 

My issue is with the paint . I DO NOT use my truck in the woods at all .

It stays on the pavement . The bottoms of my doors and both rocker panels look terrible .

Chips right to bare metal 

Bottoms of doors are turning white with chips very obvious when i clean the truck 

Truck hauls campers to and from camp grounds most of the time . It never leaves pavement . At this rate ill have to take the truck to get repainted soon . 

Also like to mention that when i bought the truck the paint was so thin on my rocker panels you can see grey primer bleeding through the black paint. 

The dealeship gave me a touch up pen but the factory paint should be more durable.  I owned alot of trucks and never seen "Road Rash" this bad on this new of a truck 

[newdude]

30 minutes ago, Ben Jardine said:

I have a 2024 2500 hd i bought new in july 2023 currently has over 30 000 km on it 

Black crew cab 6.5 box 4x4 6.6 gas . Trucks bone stock factory good years on it and mudflaps. 

My issue is with the paint . I DO NOT use my truck in the woods at all .

It stays on the pavement . The bottoms of my doors and both rocker panels look terrible .

Chips right to bare metal 

Bottoms of doors are turning white with chips very obvious when i clean the truck 

Truck hauls campers to and from camp grounds most of the time . It never leaves pavement . At this rate ill have to take the truck to get repainted soon . 

Also like to mention that when i bought the truck the paint was so thin on my rocker panels you can see grey primer bleeding through the black paint. 

The dealeship gave me a touch up pen but the factory paint should be more durable.  I owned alot of trucks and never seen "Road Rash" this bad on this new of a truck 

 

 

 

Been doing this for at least 10 years on new vehicles.  Thinner paints, thinner clears all to save costs.  

[Pryme]

There was a thread about some trucks no longer getting the textured rockers. Are yours textured or smooth?

 

I’ve had no issues with the paint on this truck and I have no chips on my truck yet. It looks thick everywhere 

[newdude]

2 minutes ago, Pryme said:

There was a thread about some trucks no longer getting the textured rockers. Are yours textured or smooth?

 

I’ve had no issues with the paint on this truck and I have no chips on my truck yet. It looks thick everywhere 

 

 

White hides the peppering pretty good.  Dark colors show the rash, even in the textured rockers.  Worst spots are in front of the rear wheels for what OP has going on.  

[Ben Jardine]

12 minutes ago, Pryme said:

There was a thread about some trucks no longer getting the textured rockers. Are yours textured or smooth?

 

I’ve had no issues with the paint on this truck and I have no chips on my truck yet. It looks thick everywhere 

Mine are not textured . I seen other 24s with the textured ones . But if you lay under my truck its visable the paint is so thing the primer is showing 

[Pryme]

1 hour ago, newdude said:

 

 

White hides the peppering pretty good.  Dark colors show the rash, even in the textured rockers.  Worst spots are in front of the rear wheels for what OP has going on.  

I’ll have to look close later and see

 

no chips this paint looks really thick. Maybe it was sprayed properly and some unfortunately get skimped somehow?

Edited June 3 by Pryme

[MidTNDenali]

I added the front and rear splash guards and found that they help keep the rockers protected.