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I recently received my delivery of 2024 C8 Stingray 2LT Coupe. I was going to do a ceramic coating on this vehicle. When doing a paint check, I found at least 5 defects on the car. Not sure if they are factory defects and transport damages repaired by the dealer. There is only 59km on the vehicle. I also found there are makers and one sticker on the inside one of the body panel having the defect. Does anyone know the meanings of the marker and the sticker? I reached out my dealer and will send my C8 to the dealer after Christmas. I know there are always paint defects on mass produced vehicles, but it is not supposed to have at least 5 obvious defects on a single vehicle. Anyone have similar issues? Thank you.
If such flaws commonly exist on most of the C8, I think they are okay. However, one of my friends work at a pre-owned dealer in GTA and they have couple of C8s from 2020 to 2023. None of the C8s has such defects.
Good luck with your dealer. See what they say and then decide whether it is worth getting them to repair it - they could possibly make things worse.
Thank you, Jack! I'm not going to be picky. I just compared the paint with my two other cars. They have better paint(no such big size flaws). If the dealer is going to repaint the panels, I will go to my detailer to do the paint correction. If they cannot solve the flaws, I'm going to leave them there.
I found some scratches by the headlight, in the first few weeks. It looks like an impact tool that slipped off. That had to be from the factory.
Not worth having the nose repainted.
I have noticed a few scratches this summer but I don't know if those were OEM, or from some absent minded people at car shows.
I went to a show at a high school, and was talking to a couple of cute school girls, when one of them put her hand on the car, with her hand full of keys.
She took it off right away but I heard the sound, and later found the scratches.
Damm kids !!
I guess that multimillion dollar paint shop in Bowling Green is not what they thought it would be. I purchased a 23 Corvette and 23 Suburban this year. Two different manufacturing facilities and new paint shops, both very poor paint jobs. Dirt in paint and excess paint on edges. wife's Cadillac wasn't any better. I've always purchased GM products for the past 40 years and with all the so-called advances in production and paint systems, they build poor quality cars. My other corvettes didn't have near the paint or mechanical issues the C 8 has and this is my 5th new corvette. Now GM is charging you extra (need a data plan) for your local speed limit sign information to work in the suburban and fee will be standard in other vehicles that offer this feature in the future. I think I'm voting with my feet and moving on to a different brand of vehicles.
You got to love their new commercial on how much they care and how expensive things are, and they are lowering their prices, on what? I guess if you say it offend enough it becomes true
I was surprised to see scratches on the A-pillar of a C8 on the showroom floor. I could only imagine how the paint would look in the sun. Paint correction would be mandatory right off the bat to get the scratches off a brand new car.
New C8 paint defects
