We bought this brand new from Earnhardt in Phoenix, Arizona in April 2010. We noticed a small clip occurred on the passenger side rear bumper about 1 month later. It appears the paint peered off by itself, we took it to the dealership's service department. They explained it could have get chipped off because rocks, road debit or other smaller object .. there isn't anything they can do and we have to deal with Honda to get it resolved (if we desire). We kinda took their explanation and consider we just had a bad luck. We did not spend time to deal with Honda, so we ended up spending about 20 dollars to get touch up paint on a brand new vehicle.

In July 2011, we spend 4 days in Arizona high country during the summer with daily temperature difference of 40+ degrees. We noticed the some paint chip emerged on the left/driver side almost on the same spot as on the right side. We took it to a body shop to get an estimate .. they ended up recommend up to contact the dealership, since those chips could have caused by painting over poorly primed plastic bumper ..

We took it back to the service department of the dealer where we brought this at, the service manager was kind of rude, without listening to our stories. He simply blamed both paint chips on us. His explaination was:

1. the spot on the passenger side, he CAN NOT see the damage/chip because we touched it up, he didnt speculate the cause. (probably he knew it was caused by poor painting already)

2. the spot on the driver side, his explanation was we hit something and cause the paint to clip off .. yes right. The plastic bumper is connected by little metal to the frame. The paint chip is near to the edge, we have a precise touch to hit the bender/bumper without causing any damage but clipping off paint which is about 3/4 inch in diameter. We wish we have that level of skill .. or that level of luck as well.

Anyway, the next step is to contact the dealership's management, and also initiate communication with Honda .. hopefully they can provide some level of service to remedy the situation. We have a gut feeling this is similar to some of the paint problems noted at this site .