Mysterious Paint issue

[Elroy Blue]

A mate was washing his car today and noticed the paint on the rear quarter had come off somehow. Their also appears to be some bubbling under the paint. It's two and a half years old and was bought approved used from a main dealer at approx five months old. It's never had an accident in his ownership.
It looks like a poor repair to me rather than a paint fault, but thoughts/opinions would be useful prior to challenging the dealer

[7even]

Yeah, looks like waterbase dyeback, where its been repaired but the bumper hasnt been loosened or taken off, therefor left an "edge" for water to get under.
Being so new, I would imagine it will be covered by the manufacturers anti perforation warranty.

[finlo]

7even said:

Yeah, looks like waterbase dyeback, where its been repaired but the bumper hasnt been loosened or taken off, therefor left an "edge" for water to get under.
Being so new, I would imagine it will be covered by the manufacturers anti perforation warranty.

Don't they only cover perforation?

[Squiggs]

7even said:

Yeah, looks like waterbase dyeback, where its been repaired but the bumper hasnt been loosened or taken off, therefor left an "edge" for water to get under.
Being so new, I would imagine it will be covered by the manufacturers anti perforation warranty.

Not often I disagree with you 7even - but whatever kind of warranty it has, as it's a used car I would put money on it that they never guaranteed it hadn't had a minor paint repair in it's past (if the previous owner got it done off his own back - how could they possibly have known?) and therefore are very unlikely to rectify it at their cost.

It simply wouldn't work if they covered every 'unknown' paint repair to every used car, because then nobody would ever pay to get an expensive 'approved' job done.
Instead dealerships would end up covering loads of cases where if the used car had been (unknowingly to them) repaired at a cheap back street cowboy by either the previous OR THE NEW OWNER and the repair fell off at a later date, they would then be stumping up for them all to be rectified by way of an 'approved' job, done for free under warranty.

Worth an ask at the dealership - but I suspect the outcome will be negative.

[Elroy Blue]

The car was pre- registered to Audi as a demo. It wasn't owned by another person prior to being bought from them as an approved used car.

[Squiggs]

In that case it is worth an ask.