Ed said:
My '07 had perfect paint after three years and a lot of bird crap It was
silver blue so maybe some colors are better than others. Bird crap can
ruin any band of paint though.
Mine is the medium blue color. I forget the exact name of the color.
Are the door handles painted or are they a molded plastic with the
matching color? Mine had a SS trip on them so you saw little of the
paint and it was OK. I do recall you mentioning them before but I don't
recall anyone else with paint problems.
I am not 100% sure, but I believe they are painted. The body man came
out and hit one with polishing compound and it restored it pretty well.
I need to get some compound to hit the rest as the body man didn't
seem inclined to do the other three. It was a little cold at the time,
but I kind of thought it was tacky to do one and then say "you can get
some polish and restore the rest of them" and then walked back into the
garage.
The first Hyundai's imported were easy to spot. They are the ones with
the big spots of primer showing through on the horizontal surfaces.
I have nothing that severe, just paint that seems unusually brittle with
respect to stone chips and parts that are fading. I don't understand
why the "recall" when I first got the car replaced just the "fairing"
caps behind the handles and not the handles also. The handles are now
faded badly and the contrast with the fairing pieces which haven't faded
so bad is high. It is obvious that Hyundai knew they had a bad batch of
paint or they wouldn't have replaced part of the handle when I first
bought the car. They should have replaced the entire assembly.
I assume it is against protocol to post an image here since this isn't a
..bin group, but a picture would show quite clearly just how ugly the
handles now look. It almost looks like they forgot to clear coat them...
Matt
