Hi, haven't seen anything about this, and I did do a search, but I just received a free bottle of touch up paint from Mazda North America in a neat little box shaped like a steering wheel. It came with some info about service schedules and mymazda.com Anyways, I thought it was very nice and I was just about to order the touch up paint anyway, so it was a cool surprise.

Me too. Came today.

A small gesture for sure, but in, let's see, 40 years no other car company has bothered with so much as anything. Thanks Mazda:)

add me to the list! just received mine - though quite a big package for such a small item.

I didn't get jack.

Got mine today, it almost makes me forget the strange tan foam on my didpstick...

Yup it's been discussed before but these threads get buried quick. It's probably been at least a month when it was 1st discussed. I ended buying touch-up paint and now I got two. :mad:

Are people getting these randomly or are they the people who had the options to get free maintainance or return there cars?

never got it.

I want! I'll bet my wife would love it if I gave it to her as nail polish! :D

Originally posted by shift_zoom8
I didn't get jack.

I guess Mazda knows what a prick you are!;)

Originally posted by stauburn
Are people getting these randomly or are they the people who had the options to get free maintainance or return there cars?

I think everyone gets one; I'm not getting the free maintenance or anything, and I got it - came about a month and a half after car purchase.

i got some with our Mazda 6 in the same little stearing wheel box as well. So it seems like everyone should get some...

I want mine =( but knowing the Mazda dealership I bought mine at...they prolly screwed up something...

just got mine, thanks brown's mazda!

Got one also.
Now I too have two bottles of touch-up paint.
Come and get me, rocks and gravel!:p

I've tried using my touchup paint on a couple chips on the hood from gravel on the highway - I didn't have any luck. My car's silver, and the paint didn't cover anything - anyone actually able to cover chips with silver touchup paint?

Maybe Santa will bring mine....

Roy

Got mine a week ago. Neat package!

I got mine yesterday.
What a waste of packaging....even though is was a cool package

The last time this was posted, it was posited that the touch up paint was a thank you for filling out the customer satisfaction survey. Seems about right because I was not exactly effusive concerning my buying experience, and I have received nothing. I guess that I'll find out if they won't send me anything soon, but I am willing to bet NO PAINT will be the answer for me. Doesn't much matter since I have a huge can of the stuff left over from my body shop repairing my bumper cover. I asked for it to cover the holes that I have to drill in the trunk to install the spare tire kit as well as the new trunk light that I want to put in, but that's a separate story.

got mine on saturday the 20th
talk about unexpected
I gave up since everyone got theirs in september it seemed like

Got mine today. Nice gesture, but I, too, had already bought (and already needed) touch-up paint. Would've been better if I'd received it shortly after I bought the car back in August.

Hopefully, this second bottle will go unused. Hopefully. :)

... on the letter that accompanied my bottle of touch up paint which arrived today (12/23); it says, "blah blah blah, we're even more excited to have you as a customer again (<-- emphasis mine)".

It seemed to me like the free paint was a pat on the head for my marque loyalty (and a discreet acknowledgement of the rather mediocre quality of Mazda's factory paintjobs. ;))

Is everyone out there who got the free paint already in MNAO's database as an owner of some other Mazda? Just curious...

Just got mine in the mail today. :eek:

Two weeks after I went out and bought a bottle. I picked up my 8 on Oct 31 so since I hadn't seen anything yet I went and ordered one!

Thats par for the course!

Well I have a 1/25th scale model of the 8 so I will use it on that!

Originally posted by Haze
The last time this was posted, it was posited that the touch up paint was a thank you for filling out the customer satisfaction survey. Seems about right because I was not exactly effusive concerning my buying experience, and I have received nothing. I guess that I'll find out if they won't send me anything soon, but I am willing to bet NO PAINT will be the answer for me.

No, doesn't have anything to do with the survey - I didn't do mine because my salesman stopped working for the dealership the week after I bought my car anyway...

Originally posted by Aratinga
Is everyone out there who got the free paint already in MNAO's database as an owner of some other Mazda? Just curious...


Nope - pretty sure everyone will get it eventually.

Finally got mine today (12/23).

Yup, got mine three weeks after buying my 8, of course I had already bought a bottle a week before it came.

Just got mine today; neat little plastic box and everything.

The doorbell just rang, and who was there but the mailman with my touchup paint. Thank you, Mazda, nice gesture.

Just got mine today as well- certainly took them long enough.

Originally posted by Elara
Just got mine today as well- certainly took them long enough.

is it coming from mazda directly or the dealer you bought your 8 from?

i got mine a longggggggggggg time ago, but havnt used it.

has anyone tried it? is it good?

weird. I got mine today too...

I trashed the dealer I bought the car from in the survey (OK, not trashed, I just didn't give him "Excellent" all the way down - and the salesman emailed me and yelled at me about it!). I bought the car Oct 2 and so far I haven't gotten a little package. Oh well.

Originally posted by Positron
I trashed the dealer I bought the car from in the survey (OK, not trashed, I just didn't give him "Excellent" all the way down - and the salesman emailed me and yelled at me about it!). I bought the car Oct 2 and so far I haven't gotten a little package. Oh well.

trashed mine too. never heard from them since.

Originally posted by RX-GR8
is it coming from mazda directly or the dealer you bought your 8 from?

Mazda, directly, it appears- but it was kind of weird, because it was addressed to my husband. I've already had it out with Mazda NA on that one, and they send things to me. Anyway, the dealer keeps addressing things to him. Which was why it's weird that the touch-up paint came to him.

As far as comments on the dealer/salesman on the survey - so what? I've said it before and here it is again - if you want my business (or in this case a positive evaluation of your performance), then you'd better be ready to earn it throughout the entire transaction. There's a reason Mazda NA wants these back from you directly and not from the dealerships. Let 'em rant and rave all they want. Pack sand, buddy - next time you'll do a better job.

Elara, any chance that Mazda NA is getting their info on who bought what from the dealer itself instead of from their own database, thereby putting your husband's name on there instead of yours?

Originally posted by tribal azn2
i got mine a longggggggggggg time ago, but havnt used it.

has anyone tried it? is it good?

I got mine today, tried a couple of coats on the plastic steering wheel box, it looked the same as my car. Didn't test for as well it held to the plastic, the wife threw it away.

Hmmmm.....I ordered my touch up paint over 5 weeks ago shortly after delivery. It has been on back order the entire time and the dealership has no idea how much longer it will be. Now I know why! hehehee...hopefully I will receive my free paint with bulky packaging shortly.

Luvin this car......................

Received my free touch-up paint yesterday 12/23.

ME TOO! COOL NOW I CAN POLISH MY CAT'S NAILS. ANOTHER COOL ITEM FROM MAZDA.

i was pleasantly surprised, i've got 2 rock chips that i know of already, over the right rear wheel and one in the hood =( guess i'll be practicing today hehe

Haha, I finally got mine too! :D

Got mine 12/23.

Originally posted by S3/P3/E2

Elara, any chance that Mazda NA is getting their info on who bought what from the dealer itself instead of from their own database, thereby putting your husband's name on there instead of yours?

What I think is going on is that the twits at the Mazda dealership put my husband's name first on the financing. He wasn't even supposed to be on it at all, since I came in with my own pre-approval from USAA at 4.25%- but they kept insisting that if I included him they could get me a better deal than USAA and the idiot finance guy put him first since he makes more $ than I do. While they did get a slightly better rate (3.9%) for me that way, I'm still a tad annoyed that they're sending everything to him just because of this.

Originally posted by Elara
What I think is going on is that the twits at the Mazda dealership put my husband's name first on the financing.
Sounds like the same guys who put my name with an "OR" along w/ my wife's name on her car. Not such a big deal really, but since I'm military I'm only subject to Florida (home state) tax laws - an "and" would have been better. While CA doesn't have personal property tax quite like VA, it would be a PITA if they did since with the "or" they could technically hit her up each year. We're retitling/reregistering it to FL during our move to MD this spring anyway, but it's still a pain any way you look at it.

We now return to touch-up paint, already in progress. :)

got it on the 23rd ($3.65 value!)