Mitsubishi Black Paint Recall

[ma13ak13]

Ive got an 03 Black spyder. The only problem with mine is on the windshield towers. the paint and clear has both faded but other than that i guess it depends on the pain. I guess im a lucky one.-

 

[dalesmitsu]

I would love to have repainted, with new set of either gst wheels, enkie rpf1's, konig britelite, kosei, evo8's.

 

[InfiniteGSX]

chrysler/Mitsu paint just sucks! Mom's 97 dakota looks like it got wayyyyy too much sun on the beach. My black eclipse's roof looked all cancerous. My Silver Eclipse is about to start doing it up.

 

[WRXkiller92]

my GST has it too, the silver is turning yellow up top like it has jaundice.
but I'm just gonna get it painted that grey the new TC's come in, Toyotas paint is always good.

 

[95talongirl]

chrysler/Mitsu paint just sucks! Mom's 97 dakota looks like it got wayyyyy too much sun on the beach. My black eclipse's roof looked all cancerous. My Silver Eclipse is about to start doing it up.

This is correct. Was more or less a Chrysler problem than anything. but since these cars rolled off the same line as some Chryslers, they more then likely got the same paint.

However, the newer cars seems to just suffer from clear coat damage. The other chryslers from the late 80's to early 90's were horrific; in that the paint peeled right off down to bare metal. They said it was a primer problem in that case.

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It will probably be kinda hard to convince them to respray a car almost 20 years old, as not it has had time to be weathered by the elements, especially if not properly taken care of.

 

[HadesOmega]

my GST has it too, the silver is turning yellow up top like it has jaundice.
but I'm just gonna get it painted that grey the new TC's come in, Toyotas paint is always good.

Heh actually toyota paint is not so good also my Previa blue is doing the same thing as my eclipse, clear coming off. The red paint on the MR2s supposedly doesn't have a clearcoat so it fades if you don't keep waxing it.

If anything I think the Dodges got it worse than us. Its not uncommon for me to see a 90s durango with the paint chipping off to the primer. Same with earlier model neons, they must have fixed it by 99 because my old 99 neon never had that problem.

 

[WRXkiller92]

Heh actually toyota paint is not so good also my Previa blue is doing the same thing as my eclipse, clear coming off. The red paint on the MR2s supposedly doesn't have a clearcoat so it fades if you don't keep waxing it.

If anything I think the Dodges got it worse than us. Its not uncommon for me to see a 90s durango with the paint chipping off to the primer. Same with earlier model neons, they must have fixed it by 99 because my old 99 neon never had that problem.

that is true, my dads Ram 1500 was fading when he sold it 3 years after buying it.

 

[Eclipse128990]

My 1998 Eclipse seams to have the Cancer as well. it's really bad though!

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I got a call from a friend of my fathers saying he heard about a recall back in 2004. BUT that they where only taking serious cases. And I wish I had my car then. I understand in a cars old age the paint will fade and chip. And technology has advanced majorly since then and the paint jobs now last longer than they used to. That's why newer cars stay looking new longer. And 90% of any old (don't consider a 1990's car old) that still have a nice pretty paint job have been re painted. And considering that black is a UV loving color it's not surprising that this is a problem with black cars. My advice is to find someone to paint your car and to have it painted white silver or grey or any light color then maybe the paint will last longer than 14 years. But this is just my opinion

 

[DJ Raydiate]

wow, that sucks. Mine is not that bad off but it's getting there. I'm just going to paint my car myself using this method : Rickwrench, Alfa GTV, Falcon Squire, Corvair . For $50 bucks, you can't beat it.

 

[HadesOmega]

Wow not bad that corvair still looks good. I honestly woulnd't mind a matte eclipse, half of my eclipse is matte right now anyway =P. If that paint is getting better then how do you explain those 4G paint problems. Thats already like 10 model years later and I still see them look worse than mine.

But yeah I'll just have to get it painted eventually, as long as mine isn't rusting I'm not going to get on it right away though. I've thought about plastidipping it also. I painted some parts on my vans with plasti dip and it is holding out well and it nice and uniform looking unlike most rattle can jobs. Best thing is plasti dip comes in black.

 

[AlbeUrDemise]

The worst car cancer I have ever seen is out here in Arizona. I used to live in Cali, and I used to think it was bad out there. Once I got to Arizona I noticed way more cars Black, Red, you name it other than White. It had the cancer. It's crazy you'd think people would come up with a better paint to last longer from the effects of the sun...

 

[Cainith]

my girlfriend has a 03 eclipse black and the paint is horrible, she went through the steps got the mitsubishi recall they were only going to give her 1/2 of the repair up to $300 which was a joke considering the cheapest estimate to fix her paint was around 2k

 

[oneslowwdsm]

Yeah any paint is going to do that with enough neglect especially black that loves to soak up the sun. Wash and wax a week in the summer to prevent this, just like washing your car in the winter to prevent rust. It's pretty much like car maintenance that people neglect to do. It doesn't happen "just cause."

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My 2g^