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The sad but true reality is that a staggering 80 percent of cars sold today are crap grayscale colors: white, black, silver, and gray, in that order. White occupies the colored (smaller) pie with a 34 percent share of the pie. With so many white cars are purchasedyou might think the finish will be from premium high-tech paint diversity. Honda the owners believe otherwise and have sued the automaker for poor paint quality.
A class-action lawsuit was filed this month against Honda Motor Company of America, alleging that 2013 and newer model year Hondas used defective paint. Acura vehicles. Filed with United States District Court for the Central District of Californiathe lawsuit alleges that some white paints are so poor that the finish “inevitably crumbles, peels, delaminates (that is, individual layers of paint separate due to adhesion problems), blisters, and peels.” Indeed, there are examples on the Internet of places like Ody Club owners forum and Reddit.
Four shades of white are currently named:
- White Diamond Pearl (paint code NH-603P) used on Acura MDXHonda Odysseus
- White Taffeta (NH-578) used on Honda Odyssey, Honda Pilot
- White Orchid Pearl (NH-788P) used on Honda AdaptedHonda HR-V
- Bellanova White (NH-788P) is used on Honda Fit, Honda HR-V
It notes that the plaintiffs reserve the right to add more vehicles to the lawsuit if they have the same “paint defect.” The group notes that Honda has repeatedly issued service bulletins or extended warranties for the white paint mentioned in the statement. Also included are a number of customer complaints, some dating back a month before the lawsuit was filed.
This isn’t the first time Honda has faced a lawsuit over paint deterioration. A a similar class action has been filed in Canada was calculated in 2022 for more than 27 million dollars. Hmm, maybe it’s time to think bigger bright color option. Anyway, it definitely helps in a crowded parking lot.
Affected cars are found all over the country, meaning the paint problem is not related to, for example, a specific regional climate. The lawsuit alleges that the paint defect “existed in latent form when Honda manufactured the vehicles and when the Plaintiffs purchased the vehicles” but would “become apparent” during ownership of the vehicles. Additionally, according to the document, the cars were manufactured at Honda’s Lincoln, Alabama plant with paint applied using a “robotic painting system.”
The plaintiffs have requested a jury trial and are seeking a variety of remedies, including, but not limited to, repaint labor, attorneys’ fees and “restitution, compensatory damages and economic and out-of-pocket costs.” Honda has not yet commented on the class action.
