Owners across multiple markets report chipping at a rate they have not seen on other cars, concentrated on the bonnet and front bumper. Independent body shops have written about it often enough that it is a recognised pattern rather than isolated complaints.
Because the colour sits in a translucent layer, a repair cannot simply be sanded and resprayed - it has to rebuild all three stages and blend them. Owners have found themselves paying for that out of pocket. It is the strongest argument there is for protecting the front of one of these cars early.
The clear over the top is reported as both thin and soft, which is an awkward pairing: it marks easily and there is not much of it to correct into.
Consistently the worst-affected panels, for the obvious reason that they meet the road debris first. On a Mazda they are also the panels where a repair is most visible if it is not blended perfectly.
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