Buy the touch up paint and DIY...or buy the touch up and have a detailer do it for you......avoid the car fax issue...I had my detailer buy the touch up paint from a dealer to blend a scratch from a wheel change out...it blends perfectly...it comes in a tube and is the exact OEM paint match....it can be purchased at any GM Dealer

 

Why would you do that for a warranty defect? The problem will only reoccur until you get the headlight mounting fixed. Go to the dealer and get it done correctly under warranty.

 

Don't want it showing up on CarFax

 

I'd rather have it fixed permanently as opposed to keeping it defective. I don't care about Carfax (if it's actually reported).

 

So I just checked my service invoice from the April visit to my dealer. There is no mention of the interference issue, nor the work done to resolve it. I know the work was done, as I trust my eyes and the before and after photos I snapped (and have stored in my "when I sell it" folder.) I also just checked those bothersome emails from CarFax and there is no mention of the issue. The above is my actual data, your actual data may differ. I respect your data.

Since I am speaking of photos, prior to this April service visit I walked the showroom where there were numerous SOLD C8s waiting customer deliver. I took about 50 photos of fit and finish issues around the headlights. My fear was that the service writer was going to argue that the headlight issue on my 16 month old 2020 was somehow my fault. As mentioned above, he never even blinked. A lot of worry for no reason.

I guess my point is that this headlight area fit and finish issue (with or without paint chips) is not a secret. It is easy to search about it, and heck, there are even online forums that talk about it. A lot. There are even forums where people talk about trying to hide it. In my opinion (I love that phrase) knowledgeable C8 buyers will either look for the headlight issue and touch ups ... or not care.

Here is one approach: Take a lot of pictures. Before and after pictures. Read your Invoice before you accept it. If the write up does not come across in a positive way, speak with your service writer about getting it to say what you want it to say.....or nothing. Save the pictures and the Invoice for when you sell the car so that you can explain the facts. Fight the vague information in CarFax with the truthful facts.

To create a new tangent, I wonder how many CarFax are sitting in the cloud that document C8 DCT problems, mysteries and replacements. Now that is a reputation I am not happy to see building up for the C8. But wait, there is a thread for that. I'll go there.

 

I don't feel like a paint or body fitment issue, repaired under warranty as a defect should be reported to carfax to begin with.

 

I disagree! The next owner has paid carfax to determine if the car has the original factory paint. When the dealer fixes your headlight paint problem he sends it out to some Joe Blow body shop to respray the front of your car- probably not the same brand paint and not the same controlled environment as the factory. The respray may fade at a different rate than the original paint.

 

I disagree with this speculation: When the dealer fixes your headlight paint problem he sends it out to some Joe Blow body shop to respray the front of your car- probably not the same brand paint and not the same controlled environment as the factory.

 

So if you have the headlight paint issue and your dealer fixes it under warranty to your satisfaction, you're okay with it showing up on carfax?

I don't know about your dealer, but the ones around here have their own in house body shops.

 

So there are lots of different dealers with various shops and standards at least in California. My point is that if you are going to have the front end taken apart and resprayed to repair chipped paint…. If I was buying that car in the future I would want to know if this work had been done. That is what carfax is for. What if you were buying that car?

 

That doesn't address the misaligned headlights though, which is the root cause for the problem.. Without that adjustment the failed paint chip could possibly reoccur.

 

A car manufacturer can have a repair performed on a new car without disclosing that a repair has been performed as long as it is below a certain threshold (3% of MSRP in California). So, if this same defect was caught during PDI you would never know it.

 

Interesting.

 

It should not --- but it DOES. This exact thing happened to me.

In fact there are people here on this forum who WANT it to show up on Carfax because they want to know if a car they intend to buy used had body repair done to it. There's two sides to every story.

 

And interesting that many humans change sides based on being a seller or a buyer. It’s why the dictionary has to have the word “hypocrisy”.

 

it's not a lambo it;s a GM my car has little **** wrong as well

 

Hey I finally figured out a stupid annoying thing on the info system / Car Play. Maybe I'm the last person on the planet to know this but I'll pass it along anyway

The problem: The volume of my radio was different than the volume of Car play. That is, the radio was set to the proper volume but when Waze spoke her turn by turn commands, the radio sound level dropped but I could barely hear the voice commands. I went through all kinds of menus on the phone and the info screen. Nothing helped.

The solution: When Waze starts to talk and the radio volume dims, you are in VOICE VOLUME mode. Use the Radio rotating dial and turn it up to the desired level. You'll see a bar on the lower screen move and the words "voice volume" on the screen.

You have to wait for the Waze voice to talk or you're just going to raise the volume of the radio.

Its stupid that they did it this way because a simple button on Carplay would let you change between the two volumes. But at least now --- you know!

 

You can also use the volume controls on the steering wheel instead of the dial.

 

There is a way to select "voice volume", "phone volume", or "main volume" from the wheel?
I think a new software/firmware update needs to include an audio mixer panel where we can adjust these settings. I agree, it is annoying as hell sometimes.

 

not defending the design, but Mode Based Volume Control goes back to the very first GM entertainment systems that offered Navigation. I am not sure if Phone Volume control predated Navigation Volume control. The technology and software have progressed, but not the Human Interface.