Do you have a "Shockwave" blue Ford?

Just took my BF XT to JA Ford as the paint is literally falling off the bonnet and boot. They said they have had 6 in the last 5 weeks for the same problem but for some reason it only affects this particular colour. They have to get the clearance from Ford and then it will go in for a respray.

yea, its the shockwave blue colour aye ?

looks like theres no primer underneath

exactly - they started as stone chips but then the paint around them has just flaked off. Also the front corners of the bootlid.

yea, a guy in town here had the same, BAII XR8, Ford resprayed the whole car, no questios asked.
Well Done FORD

I got told this by a 'friendly' Ford dealer too. We have checked mine but it's OKish, apparently it starts inside the door pillars. BUT it stone chips terribly and then they do 'grow'. Might get it looked at as well.
We got told by a car painter that the Bionic has the same trouble because of all the thinners or something they have to use to make the colour up. The paint doesn't 'stick' to the primer and can fall off. He knew of 7 that had been resprayed in auckland alone.

JAF have just phoned and told me Ford have approved the repaint of my car - goes in 9th March and they need it for 2 weeks so must be a complete repaint.

Now's your chance Sam to change the colour to a nice Purple...

FNTMV8 wrote:Now's your chance Sam to change the colour to a nice Purple...

I don't fink so...............
black would look really groovy tho

hell no ....... RED would be better!

ThMule wrote:hell no ....... RED would be better!

NO! Not Rrrrrr, you already got one that colour

That's good Sam. It will be nice and shiny just like a new one. But make sure they dont muck it up and do Blueprint by mistake

im a car painter and it is only shockwave blue that has this problem, we hav to strip the car back to bare metal and respray from there, i havnt figured out wat happens exactly but its sumthing to do wif the sun as any part that has been hiddin from the sun (behind moldings, under the spoiler etc) hasnt been effected, iv been told that it wasnt PPG that painted the shockwave blue, but another company that was tryin to get its foot in the door for some work, id say sum1 is gettin a bollocking for it now

I had my 05 BA wagon repainted 10 months ago. The paint seemed ok but there were a couple of places that the paint was lifting, I herd about the problem so went into ford and the paint shop had no problem sending in the report and getting it done.
To test your car just get some insulation tape or duct tape stick it on some corner parts (inside the door to the out side) if the paint lifts with the tape or you have spots that have lifted take it to ford (the paint shops want the work anyway).
Just check with ford before ripping all the paint off your car to make shore they will still cover it as there is superpose to be only a 5 year warranty on the paint. I have herd that in AU that they might still be covering the fault.
Then they repaint the car they colour the primer blue so the stone chips don't look as bad