Beware: Acura has known factory paint‑adhesion defect.My TLX has peeling paint again, years after Acura admitted the defect and repainted it. Now same issue is happening on another panel, and Acura won’t paint it. @Acura needs to take responsibility for this ongoing paint‑defect problem instead of leaving owners on their own.

 

Acura/Honda paint is horrible. My '09 TSX still runs like a champ but looks so beaten up because of the paint and this has decreased its value.

 

We just need to flood social media to get the word out hoping Customer Relations will help the customers. If they Acura don't help, atleast it will show how "unreliable Acura/Honda" are and will have second thoughts on buying their products.

 

Just to clarify, when you speak of how "unreliable", you are basing this solely on the daily environmental wear & tear of a factory exterior finish coating quality rather than the mechanical wear & tear performance quality of the 2015-2020 5G TLX vehicle as a whole?

 

So let me get this straight — I’m supposed to happily drive around in a mechanically perfect Acura that looks like it’s going through a daily sunburn‑peeling crisis, even though Acura already admitted to a factory paint‑adhesion defect and repainted it once? And now a different panel is peeling, but hey… totally normal, right? Hopefully you don’t end up with the same paint problem the rest of us loyal customers are dealing with, because Acura Customer Relations sure isn’t interested in helping.

 

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Thanks for the clarification, lol!

 

Out of curiosity and by no means victim-shaming, but what kind of maintenance are you doing regularly on this car? I know the Texas sun can be brutal so is there a wax/ceramic coating you've been doing on a semi-regular basis? it may be too late for you, but perhaps others in your shoes can implement 'an ounce of prevention' if you will by keeping the the paint protected via coatings to prevent this from happening on their cars.

 

I've done wax and ceramic coating already (every 3yrs) to prevent this . Its a known defect that Acura acknowledged; Google Acura paint defect on "Obsidian Blue and Fathom pearl blue". But different panels are peeling off (door/window area) also and Acura won't acknowledge the paint adhesion defect on other areas. I know what corrosion and paint fading looks like, but this is bubbling and paint peeling off like it just got sunburnt (car is garaged). I've contacted BBB, Acura Customer relations, Bureau of Auto Repair (BAR) since Acura doesn't think it's related and refuse to help. Between me and my family and siblings, we had about 20 Hondas and Acuras in our lifetime. Strong engines and paint lasts atleast 15 years before it starts to fade; but never bubble and flake off like now.