Paint or Frame Crack

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LoggingMiles
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by LoggingMiles

I am taking my Tarmac SL4 to the dealer on Tuesday but in the meantime wanted to get some opinions. Does this look like paint cracks or Frame cracks? You can see one in the silver one in the black.

My instinct says paint as the frame has never been dropped or wrecked.

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eric
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by eric

All I see are scuffs and paint scratches.

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SLCBrandon
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by SLCBrandon

Looks like paint but you have a 1 year paint warranty. How old is it?

LoggingMiles
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by LoggingMiles

This shows it better. It is 4 months old.

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SLCBrandon
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by SLCBrandon

Well within your paint warranty.

LoggingMiles
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by LoggingMiles

So it looks like paint and not carbon? Would be an odd place for paint to crack.

SLCBrandon
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by SLCBrandon

Not really. Seat tube, right by the bottle cage inserts?

LoggingMiles
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by LoggingMiles

Yes. Seat tube near bottle cage. About 90 degrees from it to be exact. In a paint warranty situation would they replace the frame or repaint it?

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by SLCBrandon

Frame would be warrantied.

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...without an actual X-ray, unfortunately it is impossible to know. If you are original owner then you should demand a new frame. EM3
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Mattias Hellöre
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by Mattias Hellöre

Either too brittle paint or a damaged tube, probably it´s beginning from bottle cage inserts, they are usually drilled and riveted after manufacturing, there you have stress risers.

I´ve repaired frames with cracks that begins on one point and continued all the way around the tube, regardless of layup made.

Please let the shop check it or stop riding it, it´s not worth it.
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