I own a 2019 Focus St Line,which I bought from new,the car is in the Desert Island Blue colour and the amount of stone chip is really bad,I don’t know if the paint layer is really thin,but where the paint has chipped  it is a while colour,I expect to get stone chips on my car,but I’ve had quite a few cars and never had it as bad as this,I I know they give a warranty on the paint ,but would imagine they will just say is a normal thing to get stone chips,love the car other than that but would be interested if anyone else is experiencing the same problems.

Most MK4 owners are suffering the same issue. 

IIRC its down to the paint being too hard and therefore easy to chip upon contact. 

I have one just above the Ford badge and a couple of smaller ones on the side of the front bumper on the bit that protrudes out.

Toyota had a worldwide recall on a paint finish, Blizzard White. Apparently there were many issues with the paint, fading before expected, overly chipping. Anyway, the bottom line was that customers got a free total respray, I know, because my neighbours car was resprayed last year under warranty - it was 10 years old! I'm sure Ford will follow this excellent example of customer care LOL 🤣🤣🤣

Anyone took it up with Ford about the paint and what was there response.

1 hour ago, StephenFord said:

Toyota had a worldwide recall on a paint finish, Blizzard White. Apparently there were many issues with the paint, fading before expected

Ah yes, white is well known for fading!  

That's not the first Toyota paint recall though.  They were redoing red cars that turned pink a few years ago.

1 hour ago, Wino said:

Most MK4 owners are suffering the same issue. 

IIRC its down to the paint being too hard and therefore easy to chip upon contact. 

I have one just above the Ford badge and a couple of smaller ones on the side of the front bumper on the bit that protrudes out.

The Mk4 isn't special, I haven't had any more (or fewer) stone chips on any Ford I've had in the last 10 years.

No stone chips on mine in 9 months!  

34 minutes ago, alexp999 said:

The Mk4 isn't special, I haven't had any more (or fewer) stone chips on any Ford I've had in the last 10 years.

I didn't say the MK4 was special.

What I was trying to say is that on my MK4 it has more stone chips on it that any of my last 3 Focus's in a relatively shorter space of time.

Perhaps that's a bit clearer ? 

Apologies for not getting my point across in the first reply.

1 hour ago, TomsFocus said:

No stone chips on mine in 9 months!  

You need to drive it out on the road first! LOL 🤣

My Fiesta is well peppered after almost 4 years and only 15k miles, windscreen much the same. No worse than previous cars (Ford and other makes) in recent years though. 

I put it down to the state of the roads these days. The "surface dressing" method is widespread in these parts and it doesn't get rolled when laid so loose chippings are just left for the traffic to flatten (or fire at your paintwork!).

Years ago, when I was doing 30k+ miles per year and roads got resurfaced properly, I hardly saw a chip.