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Check with the retailer, spesh have had the most recalls on forks of any manufacturer in the history of time*
*required or not required, those forks are just low end jobs, carbon sections bonded to an alloy crown, they often look like that right out of the box, I think they might be painted not long after being glued together. So as the glue dries (it keeps drying and shrinking back for days, probably weeks on a scale of sort) it affects the painted layer.
I have a whole collection of bust carbon forks that have been retired from my bikes, customer bikes and mates bikes that get to the stage of 'erm is that going to fail on me'. So far none of them have failed, whether thats because I/they are over cautious, or because its just movement/flex thats affected the paint and nothing to worry about. Either way, I've had around £90k of orthodontics and jaw reconstruction already (due to a bike/kerb/face when I was about 8) and really don't want to have any of that done again.
Even a basic/vanity crown is a couple of grand, which is more than I'll likely ever spend in my life on carbon forks.