If you own a Toyota with Blizzard Pearl Paint, you’ve might have noticed your paint flying off the car in sheets as you drive down the road, literally. When a car painted with this particular color gets about 7 – 10 years old, this is a “feature” you might not exactly appreciate. So, what to do?
Toyota’s Blizzard Pearl Paint
This problem with Toyota’s Blizzard Pearl Paint is called delamination. Meaning it gets sort of laminated and then it de-laminates and sort of flies away in the wind. Why? Well, one person at a dealership told a customer that Toyota cars manufactured between 2009 and 2013 were not properly primed. That is the cause of the delamination.
Toyota has refused to do anything about the problem, leaving people who have paid $30,000 or more for their vehicles having to have their entire car repainted on their own dime. Toyota gives only 3 years of warranty for paint issues. That’s rather convenient. The problem happens several years after that judging by what is being written in forums. However, one person had a 2018 Highlander with Blizzard Pearl Paint and it took 3 days to happen. There might be a contributing environmental factor.
What To Do
You can search the internet for forums that are collecting complaints in an effort to force Toyota to stand behind their workmanship and repaint the cars with a method that doesn’t blow off in sheets. Whether or not the embarrassment will hurt the company, who knows? So far they don’t seem to care they are losing some of their most loyal customers over the problem.
If you recently purchased the vehicle at a dealership, you’d likely have a warranty that you can use to return the car to them. But if the car is 3 years old or more you’re out of luck, even earlier if you have a lot of miles on it.
I bought a 2011 Toyota Prius 12/2018, the first time I washed it. The paint is coming off and I see silver spots. I’m so upset. It was a pretty car, not it’s not. This is my second Toyota. I will never buy Toyota again.
My 2015 Toyota Corolla has Blizzard Pearl paint that is chipping off the top of my car. The dealer told me it was from the car wash wash. Ridiculous
my highlander is a 2012 and is chipping ,call toyota out of luck because its 12years old. only has 38,000miles on it.I am retired can affort to have it taken care of…this is my second toyota , never again ,telling everyone not to buy toyota
July 2018 I bought a 2018 Toyota Highlander. A year later I noticed cracks, chips and paint peeling off the hood and roof of the vehicle. I contacted the Toyota dealership who gave me the run arounds until I called the Toyota headquarters. I was assigned a case manager who sent me back to the dealership to have pictures taken. A month later my case manager notified me that the regional manager denied my case because my cracks, chips and peeling paint is cause by “rain….Toyota cannot control what comes out of the clouds….possible acid rain.” To my amazement I was surprise to learn that New York City gets acid rain.
Very disappointed with Toyota and the quality of their vehicle.
I also own 2013 Highlander Blizzard Pearl, my paint around my windshield & roof randomly started peeling off…
Was advised Highlander is not on recall list? Rav 4 is!
Car model shouldn’t matter, it’s the same paint!
I only have $41k mileage. $1,500 new brakes with paint peeling off roof!!
I to have a 2012 Highlander in Blizzard Pearl! Seems all other models painted this color are on a recall list! My vehicle looks totally tacky now with this cruddy cracked paint! This is aggravating.
My 2013 Highlander Limited is painted a Blizzard Pearl. Within the last 3 months it has started peeling on roof and around the windshield. Took it to an auto painter and he told me that Toyota was aware but had not done anything. Today a Toyota Tech told me that recently Toyota had accepted responsibility, that they had tried to get away without applying a topcoat and I would be covered. However, when I called Toyota I was informed, not Highlanders, but maybe someday. What does that mean, when they get enough complaints? I have been reading them for hours, jut on my year alone. What is up Toyota?
I own an 05 Solara SLE convertible. Beautiful car, unfortunately the beauty is only paint deep. I too am a victim of the horrific paint job by Toyota. Back about 10 years, maybe less, the frame of my husband’s tundra was rusting away to dust. The company compensated customers for either a new frame or for the ones that weren’t to bad , were able to have the whole frame repainted with some kind of protector. I just remembered, they were also buying them back. BLUE BOOK VALUE. big money on that recall.