Paint wear below tailgate release.

Any update on this? Mine is only doing it to the right of the tailgate handle. It is getting progressively worse. Tailgate is steel and it’s been salty here for months. Toyota needs a permanent fix. I’d settle for me touching up the paint and the fix as I’ve been down the re paint road before…

 

Mines still not great but I’m the only one who knows. I pointed it out again to my dealer service manager recently. Ppf isn’t helpful but I have wondered and also pointed this stone guard film out to the dealer as a possible fix? Anyone know what material that stuff is? Seems to hold up and may work under spoiler? #18 on diagram

 

I use 3M only for for automotive film. Have used it on cars, trucks and several of my bikes. My Goldwing front fender I did in a matte clear because the paint is a semi flat grey. Holding up perfectly..!! Did my bed rails on my 1st gen where the bed cover would meet the bed rails, used gloss 3M.. held up perfectly for 15 years.
You can get sheets of it on Amazon, I’ve also ordered bulk sheets of it from X-Pel.

 

I didn't notice this phenomenon at all with my stock painted spoiler, but now that I've swapped out to the TRD Pro spoiler and was working on the area (up close and personal), I saw that the lower two corners of mine are also wearing. It almost looks like the original painted spoiler was just a bit bigger and hid these spots possibly? I'm pretty OCD about my truck and feel like I would have noticed them before now. I can slip a thick business card under the driver's side but not the passenger side. Both corners are worn though. I am going to put a trim removal tool between tailgate and spoiler to open up a gap and then I'm going to slide some sandpaper underneath to knock those sharp corners down for clearance. I have some Dr. Colorchip paint I can lay on there and then I'm going to cover them with quarter-sized circles of PPF for an extra prevention.

 

Put a couple of rubber grommets behind the spoiler to space it out off the paint by about 1/16" to keep it from getting any worse until I figure out final solution.