2022 Ram 1500 Limited paint job very thin

Hey all, new to the forum! I just bought my first Ram. It’s a 2022 White Ram 1500 Limited Night Edition. Beautiful truck, great features, but I got to say for a $75,000 truck I am very disappointed in the paint job. The truck has about 600 miles on it and already decent size to extremely small rock chips all over the bumper. I added some touch up paint to these areas and when I went to sand down the dried touch up paint I applied I ended up getting down to primer with no effort at all in a few spots where the sand paper happened to extend past the touchup areas. I was extremely surprised. Prior to owning a Ram I had a White Nissan Titan and the paint job was 10x better on a truck that cost 20k less. I don’t think I have ever had a car or truck with a factory coat this thin ever, and I’ve owned quite a few vehicles in the past 10 years. Is this normal? I am having to look at spending 2000 to see about getting these touch ups I did professionally redone and adding a much thicker clear coat to the bumper so that a rock the size of a toothpick tip doesn’t chip paint down to primer. Quite frankly I am concerned on how long this factory paint job is going to last. It must have 1 thin coat of clear coat on it. For 75,000 seems ridiculous to be looking at going to a body shop to add a thick layer of clear coat to the bumper.

Doesn't matter how much your truck cost. Your $75k Limited is painted the same way as a $30k Tradesman.

Mine was the same way, black. Plus it was very orange peel finish. I had a thread going.
My paint was measured and the thinnest was the bumpers at less than 2 microns as the paint shop told me. The paint was totally different depths/thicknesses all over the truck.
I did get mine corrected by Ram but it was for orange peel not thin paint.
As I was told on here, why not get your bumper 3M clear bra type thingy ( I haven’t, but probably will) Must be cheaper than painting it

Have the front bumper painted & clear coated
Then get 3 M clear bra applied

Then after 4 years or so, peel the 3M off & get it more reapplied

You might consider having it done to the leading edge of the hood & the roofline edge just above the windshield

Those are the 3 spots that took a beating on my 2009 Dodge Ram, i had that truck for 7 years & sold it with 143,000 miles on it
Those 3 areas were so bad that i had an auto body shop do a Blend on the paint to cover it.
I changed the windshield too
I sold it to a middle school Gym Teacher here in town
He still waves when he drives by

..they're all very, very thin. Mine has 35k miles on it and the front end looks like it was shot up with birdshot. I don't tailgate..

Yep! I have chips on the side of my truck which is weird. Very thin.

Same on my 2020 Sport Ram - dealer is not going to correct it as they say its caused by "outside influences". I do not drive on dirt or do much highway driving but unfortunately Dodge views it as my issue.

Hi,
My RAM is a 2017 and I agree with your opinion, it seems that paint and clear coat are thin. I just posted a thread asking a similar question about the clear coat.

V/r,
Felix

I have a 2014 Tradesman and the back bumper looks like it was never painted, total rust and has been for several years. I don’t even live in an area where the roads are salted. I live in S.E. Texas. I could understand the front bumper getting chips but why the rear other than thin paint.