Civic EX 1.8L

• Automatic transmission
• 15,534 miles

Purchased a new Honda Civic last year. I drive on the highway most of the time and the front of the car gets hit with small stones from time to time. This happens to everyone, happened before to my old Civic too, but unlike my old Civic/most cars the New Civic's paint comes right off all the way through the primer and the car the hood starts to rust. I have four different rust spots on the front of the car. When I got the first one I thought I was just unlucky, that a stone had hit unusually hard. However, with it rusting in multiple places and the rust getting bigger, my new car looks terrible (two are approaching the size of a penny). Also, it seems a stone hit the fuel cap on the side of the car to and a small toothpick size dent (and rust) there as well. I'm disappointed, the old car got hit but only the top layer of paint came off showing the primer which was not so bad. Now if I ever want to sell this car or trade it in, I'll either have to get it fixed (guessing hundreds of dollars) or take a hit on the price...

The problem appears to be that the paint applied is very thin, either that or it's of bad quality, I've checked the spots where the stones chips are and the paint is just flaking off.