Sorry to hear this. It seems like all Stingers at least up until your build date (early 2018) have peeling paint of some sort whether it be under the headlights, the hatch, the side skirts, or the front end. I would press Kia hard. Remember you are in Canada where consumer protection laws are nonexistent. Good luck.
And a subsequent visit showed NO headlight flaking. I did not say "non issue", I said: "There is no evidence of failing paint on these cars (with the possible exception of number six). Remarkably, the four month old Sunset Yellow still looks like it came off the showroom floor. Half the cars have zero issues of any kind with the paint. And the other half shows only a single point of damage on six out of the eight cars; the other two showing only two points of damage; all such imperfections (with the exception of number six) being extremely minor and explainable as damage and not paint failure."
"Peeling", no. Damage, yes. The forward hatch edge and rear hood edge chips are damage, not failing (much less peeling) paint. And clearly your powers of observation are leading you to see things that are not there: "ALL Stingers?" Why the resort to hyperbole? What is the sense or point in that? It's not even remotely half(discounting the driver's side headlight assembly chip, which appears to have been largely if not entirely rectified in subsequent builds); if it were, we'd be hearing about it every day all day.
We do hear about it every day by both older owners and newer owners. This thread is consistently the most active on the entire forum.
False, the "What did you do to your Kia Stinger today" thread is the most active.
You aren't kidding. And it's almost the same crowd all the way through the entire thread history. The attached poll is indicative of how prevalent this problem has been the entire time; not very many cars have paint issues, much less "all Stingers". Why do you want to make more out of it? Beats me. I've acknowledged every egregious case, not pretended it's a "non issue" or no big deal. Anyone's car that has paint failing to any degree is justified in being more than disappointed. I'm not sure what your motivation is for continuing to stoke bad feelings. My purpose for continuing with this topic is to inform myself as we go, and to offer information that will shed light on what percentage of Stingers have poorly adhering paint: because anyone coming here, either right after buying a new Stinger, or looking into buying one, should get an accurate assessment of the likelihood of their car being one of the "afflicted". To say "all Stingers" is just plain dead wrong, worse than just an exaggeration. Look at the poll; 5% of our members have bothered to participate; 3% have said yes they have paint failing to enough of a degree that they consider their color a failed paint job vis-a-vis quality. I don't understand why you feel like repeating the negative assertions when they are not supported by any evidence.
Iirc, back a ways it was noticed by a poster that two out of three Kia dealerships are proactively supporting these paint warranty claims. I wish the good dealerships were a greater fraction than two-thirds. But at least it isn't the other way! So, since your dealership seems to have given you a good buying experience, I would be optimistic that they are also going to be very supportive getting your hood repainted under warranty.
That's not how stats work...at all.
Thanks for the correction. 122 pages worth of paint chipping posts would be the silver medal.False, the "What did you do to your Kia Stinger today" thread is the most active.
Just saying
From 30 of us chattering on (for good reasons and bad lol)
Assert away, Forz. We've been through this ad nauseam.
I will restate that then. Perhaps the build date thread-where most of the posts are stating a build date and citing no problems- proves that the issue is not as pervasive as some non owner posters wish to portray?
Stop with your egregious misuse of statistics regarding the issue and we wont have to "go through this" over and over and over. You either really do not know how to calculate and interpret the stats from the poll or you are being intentionally deceitful. You are misleading potential buyers who fly buy and assume you know what you're talking about. Stop it. You are wrong. It's so frustrating to have to call you out on it every damn time you bring them up.
