Paint peel and headlight rub are independent defects

[Tonkabob]

My car has paint chips but no paint peel. I pulled the front end off yesterday and you can see i have rubbing from the headlights like all Stingers probabaly do. The paint rubbed off but no peeling. Paint peeling under the headlights has been seen by others and myself on 25% to 50% of the cars on the dealers lot. Paint peeling has also been shown on fender seems and around the hood vent.
So it appears its not a question of your head lights rub its how the paint reacts to the rubbing as far as adhesion and flexibility. My brittle flaky paint is imune to peeling!

 

[MerlintheMad]

The White on Jerry Seiner's lot last month had actual adhesion issues with its peeling paint under the headlight assemblies. It was the only one with adhesion issues that blatant. The other cars with paint coming off under the headlight assemblies (almost all on the driver's side only) were tiny flakes, some so small they were almost impossibly to detect.

Your pictures give the impression that paint was never actually there to begin with, which, if true, would be the oddest way to paint and assemble, or assemble and paint, a car! Masking? Who was it last week (@Kamauxx ?) who said that the headlight assemblies appear to have been masked and the paint repaired, probably from shipping damage?

 

[Kamauxx]

The White on Jerry Seiner's lot last month had actual adhesion issues with its peeling paint under the headlight assemblies. It was the only one with adhesion issues that blatant. The other cars with paint coming off under the headlight assemblies (almost all on the driver's side only) were tiny flakes, some so small they were almost impossibly to detect.

Your pictures give the impression that paint was never actually there to begin with, which, if true, would be the oddest way to paint and assemble, or assemble and paint, a car! Masking? Who was it last week (@Kamauxx ?) who said that the headlight assemblies appear to have been masked and the paint repaired, probably from shipping damage?

Nope, wasn't me. My car's paint is normal.

 

[Tonkabob]

No mine was painted and the headlights rubbed the paint off. I could not see this what so ever before removing the front end. It only takes 20 mins to pop off the front. Have a look. In this case I would not call this a paint issue.

 

[MerlintheMad]

No mine was painted and the headlights rubbed the paint off. I could not see this what so ever before removing the front end. It only takes 20 mins to pop off the front. Have a look. In this case I would not call this a paint issue.

Where did all that rubbed off paint GO? You'd surely see residue. Your pics don't reveal any residue at all: prompting my comment about paint never being on the black plastic areas to begin with.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Nope, wasn't me. My car's paint is normal.

The commenter wasn't pointing to their car: they were calling on their experience with painting cars, and proposing that the pictures offered here look more like masking and repainting going on. And that is what @Tonkabob's looks like to me.

(edit to add: the masking theory is proposed by @westcoastGT starting with post #46 on this thread: Headlight paint chipping)

 

[Tonkabob]

Pretty sure producrion cars dont get masked. Robots dont like tape. My paint rub is tiny and has 112 MPH wind blowing directly on it and i wash my car regularly. I wouldnt expect paint residue to remain.