How's the paint holding up?

[Manhattan]

Full disclosure: I don't have a 250 (yet?). I have a 2006 100 and a 2020 4Runner.

I was washing the 4Runner yesterday (because it's 75 degrees in the middle of November) and played my newest least favorite game: Is it another paint chip or spec of dirt. 4 out 5 times, it's a chip. No exaggeration, my '06 Land Cruiser with 190,000 miles has fewer paint chips than my 44,000 mile '20 4Runner. This is discussed on 4Runner boards, e.g., "Which color chips the least?" etc.

It may be too early - most 250s probably have under 3,000 miles, and many/most have PPF - but I'm wondering, is my 4Runner indicative how Toyota is painting all of its vehicles? Is the Land Cruiser different?

Side note... As I was washing the 4Runner, I was thinking about "quality" and "reliability" and how they're similar but don't each necessarily apply evenly. It's hard to knock the reliability of a 5th gen 4Runner, but it doesn't "feel" like an unusually high-quality truck. It reminded me of a classic Bic pen, i.e., it's lightweight, feels cheap, but will work forever.

 

[berry802]

Full disclosure: I don't have a 250 (yet?). I have a 2006 100 and a 2020 4Runner.

I was washing the 4Runner yesterday (because it's 75 degrees in the middle of November) and played my newest least favorite game: Is it another paint chip or spec of dirt. 4 out 5 times, it's a chip. No exaggeration, my '06 Land Cruiser with 190,000 miles has fewer paint chips than my 44,000 mile '20 4Runner. This is discussed on 4Runner boards, e.g., "Which color chips the least?" etc.

It may be too early - most 250s probably have under 3,000 miles, and many/most have PPF - but I'm wondering, is my 4Runner indicative how Toyota is painting all of its vehicles? Is the Land Cruiser different?

Side note... As I was washing the 4Runner, I was thinking about "quality" and "reliability" and how they're similar but don't each necessarily apply evenly. It's hard to knock the reliability of a 5th gen 4Runner, but it doesn't "feel" like an unusually high-quality truck. It reminded me of a classic Bic pen, i.e., it's lightweight, feels cheap, but will work forever.

I have 5k miles on my 250 without a chip, w/factory installed PPF on hood. With that said I don't hold any hope that the paint is any better or thicker than the 4Runner, I've owned numerous 5th Gen 4Runners and was always fixing chipped paint.

 

[Oakleyguy]

5k+ miles on the GX; no PPF. One tiny chip on the front of hood. Nori Green

Otherwise it's great.

 

[Corbet]

I live on a dirt road. Have PPP on the front end. Have not noticed anything yet at 3900 miles but admittedly have not washed it yet either.

 

[CBB]

Just under 2k miles 3 weeks in with ours, 40 or so highway miles on our daily commute. This past Saturday I did my first wash with light polish and ceramic coat, so really got to see every square inch up close. No chipping or nicks so far that I could see. Of course, Trail Dust will probably be fairly forgiving on that front. No PPF. I also think that there being so much plastic up front with just a little paint will help it in the long run. Years ago I had an E46 M3 in Carbon Black that I had repainted. Chips appeared in the front bumper within 1k miles.

I will say, aside from the orange peel, the quality of the paint is great. I couldn't pick up on any blemishes or factory flaws at all, and I spent a good bit of time looking.

Edit: I did find one impossibly tiny dimple in the windshield above the center of the passenger wiper blade. I'm sure that will be a trend with how upright they are.

My 100 series though, rock chip central. Naturally, that's a black car with 300k miles.

 

[hoser]

Anybody have a paint thickness gauge and able to check paint depth at different areas? It seems the latest 70 series LC's are coming out pretty thin.

 

[Manhattan]

and the 70 Series is supposed to be the "heavy duty" series.

 

[APIOQM]

Anybody have a paint thickness gauge and able to check paint depth at different areas? It seems the latest 70 series LC's are coming out pretty thin.

This guy measured the thickness. Apparently Hamura Plant vehicles are a bit thicker.

 

[Dan2722]

Does anyone have experience with Icon Rocklear? I ceramic coated my new 250 for the winter and am thinking I will have local company coat it in Rocklear in the spring.

 

[Corbet]

Washed and hand waxed mine for the first time today. 4200 miles on the odometer Dirt road travel every day. Didn’t find any chips or blemishes. Just left over adhesive the dealer didn’t get completely off during the PDI. Two coats of old fashioned Turtle Wax and a ton of elbow grease.

 

[jay3253]

Paint is just fine. The polished black plastics scratch and stain if you breath their way. I've plastidiped all of it on my truck. The mirrors have bug splatter on them that will NOT come off no matter what I do, so I plastidiped them furst.

 

[calokie]

Washed and hand waxed mine for the first time today. 4200 miles on the odometer Dirt road travel every day. Didn’t find any chips or blemishes. Just left over adhesive the dealer didn’t get completely off during the PDI. Two coats of old fashioned Turtle Wax and a ton of elbow grease.

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How does the Traildust look in-between washes,does the color hid dirt well?

 

[Corbet]

How does the Traildust look in-between washes,does the color hid dirt well?

As good as anything else. I live on a dirt road so a dirty truck is my life.