Hey,
We have bought a 17 plate Jazz EX in midnight pearl black for my wife. The car was 12k miles when purchased and was mint. I gave the car to a local Honda dealership for a service and a wash and presented my Mrs with the keys to her new lovely ride. Everybody was happy until we discovered how bad the paint on the Jazz is!
After a month and a half of her driving the Honda to work and back (30 miles a day, on a clean, decent B road), I found the bonnet littered with tiny white stone chip marks.
Before we bought the Jazz, she used to drive my Octavia on the same route every day for three months, and there was never any stone chip damage.
One day after we brought the Honda to an automatic car wash, I had noticed paint scratches on the boot door which were not there before. I had complained to the car wash staff, but they dismissed me, saying that there is no way their car wash could cause the damage. I had my Octavia washed there every week, and there were never any paint issues.
We decided to clean the vehicle ourselves from there on.
So, today I have used a soft car brush plus a low-pressure jet wash to clean the Jazz by hand. I did not use any force nor abrasives: just clean water and Karcher brand car shampoo.
The Jazz's paint now has circle shaped scratch marks all over, and on the offside front column edges, the paint thinned so much I can see the white primer layer.
I gave the same wash to my Skoda earlier that day, so I went back and examined its paint. It was immaculate.
I feel gutted, our almost new 17 plate Honda paint job looks worse than my 06 plate Octavia with over 120k miles on the clock.
I feel like Honda factory painted this car with kids crayons. I owned a few cars in my life, but the Jazz is the first one where I can wash off the paint!
Has anyone had this issue here? The car is still on warranty, is there a point asking my local dealership for a warranty re-spray?