JK

Numerous chips on bonnet and one large one on A pillar. BMW 5 series does same journeys (alternate cars with wife) and does not have a single chip. 2001 sapphire blue IS200

Yes, the paint maybe too brittle. Whatever the reason it certainly chips easily. Has anyone had any success with getting dealers to fix the chips? In my experience they are normally very good at responding to requests if they are at fault. If it was just "one of those things" that might happen to any car I would accept it and leave it at that, but I can quantifiably show that the Lexus has a much lower chip resistance than a Ford Fiesta and (more importantly for Lexus) a BMW. BTW, my car is sapphire blue - it seems this is especially bad for stone chips?

I think the IS200 is a great car with one problem - soft paint that chips really easily. Given the quality of the rest of the car I am surprised that Lexus have not addressed this. My wife and I share cars to spread the mileage so our two cars do the same journeys, almost on alternate days. When we first bought the Lexus our other car was a Fiesta. When we sold the Fiesta it had about half the number of chips on the bonnet as the Lexus though because we had had it longer it had covered 3 times the mileage! Our other car is now a BMW 5 series and we have covered 7k miles in it. During that time the Lexus has added a number of new, very visibile chips, the BMW does not have a single mark! Same journeys remember. We should be able to do something about this... any ideas?