Here is what can be found as a comment from the YouTube video. do not know if 100% true but sounds as if he has a line on what is going on.
Hey my name is Brendan and Im from Sydney, Australia and was one of the first in the world to take delivery of a Sunset Yellow Stinger last October. About 24hrs after I collected the vehicle, I noticed the first chip in the paint. What followed was an alarming number of them and some very tense and honest discussions between myself, the dealer and Kia Australia. The car was inspected three times and finally after trying to play hardball, Kia agreed to respray the entire car, which took six weeks. I only received it back one week ago. From what was explained to me, this issue exists on every stinger manufactured to date and the issue is that they applied an etch primer on the raw panels and then applied a white base coat which they baked at high temp. for a considerable amount of time. Then they applied the colour and clear etc and baked again. Apparently there shouldn’t normally be an etch primer nor should they fully bake the white base coat. They did it apparently because they were having issues with the paint adhering to the bonnet because it’s aluminium and Kia have never used aluminium panels before. So they developed this process and rather than just use it on the bonnet, they did the whole car so there wasn’t any cosmetic difference. However the process is not a proven way of making paint adhere to aluminium, let alone any other surface. It was suggested that they were desperate to get the car into production and meet deadlines to they did what they had to, which has ended up with where we are today. To anyone affected, if I can offer advice.....push for a total respray. Individual panels will not fix the issue as it will likely appear on others later on, not to mention trying to colour match. I reiterate that when they removed my front and rear bumpers, paint was literally flaking off the concealed surfaces. They also replaced both bumpers and the bonnet. The bonnet was replaced as the original was used in destructive testing at PPG at Eastern Creek in Sydney and then sent to Korea is my understanding. There were also executives from Korea, in Australia who inspected my vehicle. Apparently any warranty claim greater than $5k, must be approved by head office in Korea. So it isn’t Kia US or Canada or Australia that you will be battling. They will most likely be on your side even if it doesn’t seem it. They originally offered me a full refund and refused to assist me in buying another one. I told them to forget it and that I would keep the car and go to the media, get the paint independently tested to find out the real issue, as well as park it outside their biggest dealers every weekend. That is when they finally agreed to a respray. Even during respray, it took quite a bit of effort to get the body in a clean condition and rid of all of the original etch primer and base coat. You can just tell now how much better the paint is. It even looks and feels thicker (stupid I know) I hope this helps and feel free to hit me up via email..... bren1979@
gmail.com if you have any questions or need more info. I want to help as many people as possible. Cheers Brendan
and the focus, had a hard time getting it to focus in that light, made my Black car look like a mirror. These must have just happened because I almost always walk around my car after I park it now, to check for these and touch them up. As I said previously, these chips keep happening, in fact one of these looks like one I tried to touch up months ago and the paint didn't stay (I only used the paint pen, no primer/clear coat). For reference, these are all about 6 inches apart from each other.
