Paint on bumper discoloured or marked

[purrlyne]

Octavia VRS 2019, photos attached. The paint on the front nearside bumper is discoloured or it could be described as marked but not by any damage. It doesn't wipe off, there is no dent or any sign that anything has hit it or scraped it. It looks as if the paint could be faulty.

 

Has anyone got any ideas what might have caused it and what might be done about it?

 

It is still under warranty and I will take it in for the dealer to look at it, but i would like to forestall the inevitable reply that it is not a manufacturing fault and instead it must be my fault!

 

All help and advice gratefully received 

[Ootohere]

When did it start showing like this and have you had the car since new but never noticed it over the past 2 years when washing and polishing or waxing until now?

 

If you had from new and know you have not had any paint repairs it is usual that any damage that was done in transit and had work would show before now.

 

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Could someone in the household or at work have done some damage and tried polishing it out?

 

A paint thickness test and even a test of the paint will know if it is factory paint, but any authorised / approved repairer if they did work should have carried it out to that spec. 

Edited 16 October, 2021 by e-Roottoot

[purrlyne]

Thanks for your response. Yes I have had it from new and there has been no accident or any other repair. The mark has been there for a few weeks now, I don't clean it very often and have never polished or waxed it.

 

No-one else could have tried to repair it. I don't work and my senior management doesn't touch the car.

[J.R.]

It looks exactly like someone has started flatting out a scratch or scuff in the clear coat & then given up before going through all the wet n dry grades, compound, polish etc, had you recently bought the car I would say that someone had gone over it with highlight polish & it has now washed off but not in the case of 3 years.

 

You say that you rarely clean it, was it cleaned in any different way last time, a hot jet wash perhaps?

[purrlyne]

Thanks for this.

 

I haven't cleaned it for months and I haven't been anywhere where someone could have had the time do anything like scuff it and then try to clean it up. It has been on my drive or I've been driving it almost all the time. It has been parked in car parks occasionally, but it is almost incredible that someone would try to clear up a scuff, surely they would just drive off?

 

Oh well, it looks as if I can't demonstrate that it is a fault with the paint.

[Ootohere]

@purrlyne Has your car been at a Dealership for Servicing recently, and the Body & Glass Inspection & Report that is part of the Service, 

and did you hand the car over clean and get it returned clean after the free Wash & Vacuum?

Did you and the Service Desk check the car when you handed over the keys and when you collected the car again?

 

Sorry but not knowing your circumstances i was trying to get the facts that paint a picture.  (sorry for the pun).

 

The kind of person i meant that might try to hide damage was a son type person, as in a teenager.  

But if that does not apply then not applicable.  

 

Another usual is a House Painter, Gardener, someone doing work, maybe some workers at your workplace / parking place spill something when passing the car and clean it off and job is a good one as far as they are concerned. 

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/479082-contractor-has-sprayed-paint-on-my-car

 

I used to inspect paint faults and do warranty correction or non warranty correction.

Skoda / VW used a very good company that who were Independent experts.   Problems came when the Expert said Factory Paint Faults and some non expert at VW / Skoda knocked back (rejected) the 'report and advice to repair'.  

Their mission to be reduce as much expense to VW Group in the After Sales Support, like a loss adjuster but one who could not give a toss about poor Quality Control or Factory /Manufacturing defects, and if they have no record of Kerb Side Auto Repairs fixing damage from a cars delivery on ot off the transporter then that is that.

 

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/430237-bonnet-paint-defects

 

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/452334-bumper-paintwork-haze

 

 

 

Edited 16 October, 2021 by e-Roottoot

[J.R.]

Teenager of any age (I've only just become a responsable adult) garage where vehicle serviced etc?

[purrlyne]

I have to accept that you are all probably right and something has happened without me knowing it. At least it saves me from taking it to the dealer and wasting both their and my time.

I will just have to pay to have it sorted as it is not very pretty

[Defenderben]

I had this on my car and it was due to bird crap……luckily applying heat and manipulation of the lacquer by a detailing specialist, it came out.

 

surprising what bird poo can do. If you say you rarely wash it, could it have had something like bird poo or tree sap eating into it?

[J.R.]

4 hours ago, purrlyne said:

Thanks for this.

 

I haven't cleaned it for months and I haven't been anywhere where someone could have had the time do anything like scuff it and then try to clean it up. It has been on my drive or I've been driving it almost all the time. It has been parked in car parks occasionally, but it is almost incredible that someone would try to clear up a scuff, surely they would just drive off?

 

Oh well, it looks as if I can't demonstrate that it is a fault with the paint.

 

To prove to yourself whether it could have been present but hidden for some while spray on some silicone spray or even WD40, it wont last anywhere near as long as a highlight polish but will give you the effect and can be washed off immediately.

 

Even throwing water on it has the same effect but would run off before you could stand back and view it.

 

It won't help you find the suspect but will tell you if we are wrong, its very difficult to tell from a photo.

[varaderoguy]

Let me put my 5 cents in. Skoda paints are rubbish. There are places where the paint is so thin it is wearing through. I keep my car super clean and it annoys me that even though I try my best it is still rubbish. Eventually there will need to be a proper respray to sort out the poor quality of the paint. To date, I use many Autoglym products to keep on top of the paint work and it tends to work. I had the thinning and ghosting paintwork and I use a light scratch remover which got rid of 80% of the poor paint.

[purrlyne]

Thanks for the tip about spraying it.

I sprayed it with WD40 and it looked like the mark had disappeared completely. I left it to dry and it still looks as if it has gone. But when wiped off, the mark returned.

Does this mean that I can put something else on it that will remove the mark permanently? If so, I would be very grateful for suggestions.

[J.R.]

It means that you need to do the hard work that whoever the miscreant was could not be bothered to do.

 

Progressive wet flatting through the wet n dry grades to 1200 finishing with a worn 1200 sheet, then compounding, cutting and polishing.

 

I can't say what grade to start with as I would need to see the area with my own eyes to establish what grade was used.

[SC03OTT]

2 hours ago, J.R. said:

It means that you need to do the hard work that whoever the miscreant was could not be bothered to do.

 

Progressive wet flatting through the wet n dry grades to 1200 finishing with a worn 1200 sheet, then compounding, cutting and polishing.

 

I can't say what grade to start with as I would need to see the area with my own eyes to establish what grade was used.

The OP doesn’t even wash it. They ain’t doing that. 
 

 

Take it to a body shop. Ask them to fix it.