Paint chips

is all those white dots chips?? O____O

 

wow, I would be pissed. Makes me wan to check mine...although its silver and I will probably never see it. I saw a silver one on ebay that had that same issue though.... Mitsu needs to compensate for that big-time

 

Woah what the heck happened?

 

doesnt the anti corrosion warranty cover this or is it not?

 

with my car, all did was walk by it and the zipper from my jacket just barely brazed it and it scrached it.. sorry to say but our cars has really cheap paint

 

yea we have cheap paint thats why its nessasery to Clay ur car once in a while, also dont even wash it at those gas stations or any place where they use that hot wax crap cuz it will eat up ur paint, i mean clayin it and waxin it is the best u can do .. that looks pretty bad, u need to take that to the dealer and see if the warrenty can help u on that cuz it looks like faulty paint n thats not ur fault but the manufaturer

 

If the damage was caused by dry lake bed runs...then you're S.O.L. If is due to normal wear and tear AND it's still in warranty, Mitsu will need to correct the issue per their paint warranty guidelines. I had a similar problem on my tarmac black Evo and they repainted the damaged area.

Just a heads up. You may want to invest in a clear bra or other paint protection. Mitsu has been known to have a very weak painting process.

 

Man, that sucks bad.. but I can relate. Although my car is no where near as bad, I too am getting the same thing. All of the salt/sand on the road over the winter has taken its toll. Im starting to get the chipping on the plastic side skirts, near the rear wheel wells in the same spot as in your first picture.

Its Soooooo nice to know (sarcastic voice), that Mitsu wont do anything about it..(you said they wont cover it cuase its not rust??!!??) I got to say, for all the different cars Ive owned, over all these years,it seems Mitsu has the worst customer care/ service/ warrentee I have yet to see. With my last car, a Hyundai, all I had to do was bring it in and they would fix anything, no questions asked.

 

Wow...that's so weird...what the hell kinda salt do you guys use?!

My car has no paint problems what-so-ever other than the scratches I caused myself (got mad at scraping ice off it and actually scraped some paint off lol)

I truly hope that thats just a rare occurance :?

 

I dont know about the original poster, but here in Connecticut, they switched over to this liquid salt solution this yaer, and it is way worse then the old salt "pellets" they used to use in the past.

 

liquid salt? WTF?

Here we use sand mostly and old school chunky salt stuff LOL.

If I move out to Calgary, they don't use salt OR sand, they use tiny little rocks. So that'll probably cause chips but I doubt it'd corrode anything.

 

thats cuz hyundai is such a looked down on company that they have to make themselves look good somehow

 

i noticed the exact same damage on my car.. all i do is drive to work and school, no dirt roads or anything like that.

 

For those with this problem, just go to your local autostore and pick up the black generic ones.

I don't know the rules on this site, so mods delete if its wrong, but I saw this on the evo section of the 'other site'

http://forums.evolutionm.net/showthread.php?t=331484

 

I've already done that on my car, it was one of the first things I had done, because in past experiences I had ALOT of paint chips up the sides of my vehicles that didnt have any mudflaps on them. Maybe due to the harsh weather we can get here, along with all the other shit we have on our roads.