Paint chips starting to rust

[Diablo3305]

I washed my car today, and I looked at the roof and noticed that their is a chip that is starting to rust alittle. It is not very big, might be from road debris or something. I waxed the thing a couple of weeks ago and I don't remember seeing it then, so i'm not sure if it happened before or after. It has 2 coats of wax on it. I also noticed 2 nicks on my hood that have been there for awhile, but they too appear to be developing a bit of rust. Anyone notice anything on their truck like this? I know corrosion is covered under warranty, but they exclude road debris from that. However it seems weird to me that road debris could cause the paint to chip down past the primer to the metal. My last car had a scratch from a key in the back, and that never rusted, neither did any other scratch on it. My parents cars don't have anything like this on their cars either. Sounds like a flaw to me. Anyone have any ideas? I am going to take it to a body shop this week to have it looked at, because i don't want it to get worse and just cost more. This really pisses me off. Little debris hits cars all the time, however the paint on this car seems to chip off much easier than other cars we have at our house, and now that I see this rusting it worries me even more, maybe the quality of the paint sucks or something, i don't see why it should get down to the metal from something so little.

 

[jharris2]

Haven't seen anything like it, and I just finished polishing the truck. However, our Camry has 2 pretty good-sized chips in the windshield from rocks thrown by another vehocle. So, I believe it is entirely possible for road debris to go to the metal.

Suggest that you try to sand just the rusted spot and use some touch-up paint on it.

 

[JungleJim]

Although Toyota is known for overall good quality, many owners have noticed that Toyota paint chips very easily. I think it's just the nature of the beast and this is one of those things you'll have to stay on top of.

Probably not the answer you wanted?? Just keep touch-up paint around and use it whenever you notice the chips

 

[Diablo3305]

im gonna take it into the body shop and see what they think. It is a really small chip, maybe about the size of a pea, but the rusted part is about a 1/4 of the chip, not very big, i just don't want it to get worse. I figure it just needs to be cleaned, and touched up, and i almost don't care what it looks like, because its so small and its not very visible, so even if you can tell up close that it was touched up doesn't matter to me. I do have to get touch up paint from the dealer sometime.