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My neighbor came up to me this morning and showed me her 05 TSX and the paint has been falling apart over the last few months. Car is well maintained and has under 45000 kilometers. Just a city driver. No rust on the paint either, just melting off. Anyone seen this before on the TSX. She's super upset because again, mint car, low mileage and bought it new in 05.







 

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Paint condition has little to do with mileage (unless its rock chips).

It has more to do with where the cars spent most of its life. I can guarantee you this car spent little time indoors. Majority of its time was outside in the driveway in the rain/sun/heat/snow, and the rest on the road.

10 years (asuming 04 build date) of outdoor sitting can cause this, without any UV or clear coat protection (a good synthetic wax). The clear coat is so oxidized in the first pic that its hit failure in certain spots, where the clear is clearly (no pun intended) chipped.

As for the base coat etching off in the second, third and fourth pic, acid rain, bird droppings just left sitting, and automated car washes, can all attribute to this. If she doesnt take action now, all those chipped clear coat spots in the first pic will eventually lose the basecoat too.

If this was a 2-3 year old car, I would chalk it up to a manufacturers defect. Honda clear is water based and soft, so while this car was mechanically maintained, cosmetically it was left neglected (never waxed at the least), and this is the culmination of years, not months sadly.

Sorry, just the truth.

At best she could try and have a detailer try to remove the oxidation in the clear but its tricky.
 

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Car in your pics doesn't look like a TSX lol.

Back on topic, i'm wiling to bet that car has never or rarely ever been waxed throughout its entire life. Even 10 year old paint shouldn't be in such poor condition even if it was always parked outside in the sun.
 

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Almost looks like someone sprayed something on it. I mean that one part is all the way down to metal. Seems strange to me but I do know lie the others have said if you don't take care of your paint it will look like crap after 10 years but this is really bad. Do you have pictures of the hole car ?
 

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I have to disagree with "Car is well maintained", perhaps in regards to mechanical maintenance, but that poor TSX probably never got a proper "spa" day in the past decade. As stated already, no washing/waxing, touch car washes, etc. That first pic, practically looks "matte", if that is the roof (which doesn't encounter that much road debris), then that is sad.
 

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Is this thread a joke, maybe a troll??

It's not a TSX in the pics.


Not waxing, even not washing your car ever will cause the paint or the clear coat to flake off, or else you would see tons of cars with paint issues.
The majority of cars will never get waxed ever and only see automated car washes

When the manufacturers were forced to go to water based paint in the late 90's early 2000's there were huge issues.
The paint would flake off, just like the pictures above show.
More common in US cars and trucks of that era rather than imports.
 

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Wow, just realized you guys are right, it's not even a TSX. The 2nd pic shows the door handle and the interior trim (grey with cloth rear seats).

Guess I never expected anyone would come online to troll about peeling paint.
 

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7th gen civic. They have bad paint and clear. Worse than our Milano Pink lol.

On that topic though, I have seen a very big difference between our Japanese imported TSX and other American manufactured Acuras. We have slightly softer clear coats while the American manufactured cars have much harder clears. That's why our TSX scratch and swirl easier compared to a 3rd gen TL or RL.
 

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LOL, sorry guys didn't mean to troll at all. It's a TL, not a TSX. I have no idea why I thought it was a TSX -- but din9lebeRrY was correct. Never washed. Never waxed. Canadian winters. Always sat absorbing mother nature in the sun.
 
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