[Beezer73]

I have a 2019 Mazda3, no dings, chips or scratches yet. The paint is immaculate in my opinion. It's sonic silver and it's gorgeous. Also the gaps on this car are second to none. I couldn't and still can't find a single flaw in the gapping or fit anywhere. The interior is 2 steps above anything in it's class.
I bought it with a dealer package that had "paint protection" as part of it. It also included 3M door edge guards and handle guards. Window tint, and various other things.
I've also applied a Mothers CMX ceramic coating. It beads water like nobody's business, in sheets.
I'm not worried.

 

[Beezer73]

Mazda uses a water based paint.

My 2019 is still immaculate, of course I keep it in the garage most of the time.

 

[Beezer73]

I have a 2019 soul red Mazda 6 signature. When I purchased it I didn't know about the thin paint and I had the car covered with ppf and ceramic coating. The coating wasn't looking to good a couple of weeks ago and I noticed the roof was starting to show oxidation. I used my paint thickness guage and was shocked. I checked the paint level first inside the frame on the pillar in the driver side and it measured 2.28 mils; that is thin. I've always seen in cars that typically when I measure them that the paint is 1.5 to 2 times greater than that number and of course I attribute that to extra clear coats. What I found out is that most my panels measured about 3.5 and then when I went to the roof the front of the roof measured 1.78 and moving back it went up to 2.2. The paint is literally disintegrating and it's only two and a half years old. I wash this car by hand every single week with GRIOT'S wash products, which is one of the best on the market in my opinion. I used the surface wash and the three in one sio2 spray once every 4 to 6 weeks. The car has looked fabulous for two and a half years up until the last couple months when the Ceramic Coating failed. I decided to stop using the sio too on March 1st and to go for a month and see if the car would lose all of his hydrophobicity and it did. The coating had failed, a 7-year coating only lasted two and a half years. That's another story for later.
I went to the Detail Shop that put on the product originally and another one and both shops agreed that the coating had failed. But they also agreed that Mazda has very thin paints and unfortunately Mazda won't do anything about it. Also both shops said they would not work on it because the pain is too thin and so I'm left with just adding sio2 sprays until the paint disappears. Cuz I can't polish out the water spots because it is an outdoor daily driver and I can't polish out any of the oxidation. I just got to watch the paint dry out and oxidize. I have never had a paint job that went bad on a car and most my cars I own about 10 years and most my cars I buy or one or two years old when I buy him but of course most of my car is that about were Toyotas and BMWs. I have not bought Mazdas before.
I was wondering does Mazda repaint cars because they're so thin or is it just something we have to live with because I'm looking at a car that's two and a half years old and has lost over 30 seconds paint has just literally evaporated disappeared and at this rate this car is going to be needing a repaint within a year or two maybe three.

Put a good coat of synthetic wax on it. You can then just do the ceramic sprays yourself. You can also layer it, it say's so on the spray bottle. You can layer over or under wax and you can layer as many layers as you like.