damn hno


mine were repainted, but i dont think i ever had issues like that!!

of course, i guess it could if i drove it...... :rofl

 

Driver side

Passenger side

 

Shouldn't that rubber piece be behind the fender and not in front/outside of it? If it is outside the fender resting against a painted surface its almost guaranted to rub the paint off. So is rubbed off or peeling off big difference?

Just for discussion, if the plant that truck was built is like Arlington, TX where the big SUV's are built. The truck is not painted by GM employees. Its done by DuPont.

 

probably that rubber seal rubbing all the time

shouldnt it go the opposite way?

i know it clips to your top bumper piece though..

 

I believe it has to do with the rubber piece rubbing between fender and bumper on the chevy trucks.

http://www.duramaxforum.com/forum/2011-up-non-powertrain/527114-2011-chipping-paint.html

There has been other threads on it too.

 

PHuck GM!

 

I didn't put that god damn pos piece of rubber there!

 

I went through it too man... The service manager at the dealership told me I wrecked my truck and was trying to get them to fix it... Said the only way that strip was like that was from an impact.. Needless to say things didn't go well there and I pretty much burnt that bridge when I came unglued on him. In the end I had to pay another shop 850 to repaint my fenders


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Oh I'm nowhere near done with this issue... sucks to hear how it went down for you though

 

I have an issue with the "wax" on frame... Or coming off frame.

 

That is pretty extreme. What part of the country are you in?

 

Southern Wisconsin.

I'm going to fight that battle tomorrow though, because they'll say, "well salt and sand mix is eating it up."
My reply will simply be, "Hoe, this truck is 3 years old and has 43,500 miles on it!"

 

Time to cut down that rubber piece.

 

Time to buy a Ford!

I'm waiting on GM to give me their percentage estimate on what they may help with.....

 

I have read about owners with this problem having the dealer agree to pay half of the repaint costs.

 

In the end, I dont know what I'm going to do....

I really am just pissed at how much gm paint jobs suck on these $62k msrp trucks.

 

If it's any consolation, the bottoms of my fenders aren't chipped... (at least not due to this)

 

Yet!

 

I don't have that rubber strip between the bumper and fender. It went away with the factory bumper years ago when the truck was new.

 

Let me come install one on your aftermarket bumper for you, I have 2 that would be perfect :thumb

 

Right here:

 

Well I just looked at mine and apparently my bumper isn't on straight from the factory or something similar. On the passenger side I can barely stick a piece of paper between fender and trim but on drivers side it's wider than my thumb

 

Someone hit it when you had it parked?

 

Nope, just factory defective.

Also, just saying so people understand, I am not bashing on the entire gm truck, just the shitty paint jobs we have.

 

The front bumpers are installed by hand on the assembly line, so there are some variations in fitment.

 

They are thin. Easily tweaked by hand.

 

The paint or the rubber? I can confirm the paint is


But yes, I know the rubber flaps are too.

 

I'm talking the front bumper.

 

Mine was crooked as heck the day it arrived at the dealer, obviously they are put on quickly by hand. My dealer adjusted it as straight as they could, the bumpers are all crooked if you look across the lot. And yes, they are cheap in quality...not price.