Ok, so I noticed back in the fall that the paint on my roon started "cracking". It was fine for a while and I noticed other black eclipse has the same problem, but way worse. Literally, paint pealing off the cars. Now I have a spot about 6" by 3" that has the clear coat just now starting to chip off. I heard that thgere was a recall on the paint for 00's, but that it might be too late. I didn't thnk it was a problem cause it just started recently. Any recommendations to how I should go about fixing it myself or talking to the dealership??? Thanks!

Dude here's the deal, the 3g in black was just a $HITTY paint job to begin with, you can go check with your dealer to see if it would be covered under a recall but I don't think it would be. Your best option would be to get your car professionally repainted cause if you just fix the one spot then the rest of your car will start doing it pretty soon anyways(Trust me there are a few out here that are doing it on the hood, all over the roof, on the top of the hatch by the spoiler) so you're better off just gettin the whole thing professionally repainted.

NO ALL DARK COLOR SINCE 1990 FROM MITSUBISHI WAS SHITTY. NOT ENUFF CLEAR COATS.

I know but the only good ones that look good is white and silver. And not because they did a better job, but because you can't see the clearcoat bubbling on the light colors. Mitsu really needs to learn how to paint a car properly.

Auto body gunna paint car for FREEE school gave free paint and i just got to get it signed by a director.
Going from fagmitsus gey black to a nice charcoal greytone not tooo dark but sexiiiiiiii slapping sum gts side on it b4 tooo

i think you mean Dodge/Chrysler needs to learn how to do better paint jobs. our cars come from the Dodge/Chrysler plants, and everyone knows about the crappy paint jobs they did on all the Dodge/Chrysler Neons and the Seabrings. our cars came from the same plants as those POS paint job cars.

they did it to save on cost for manufacturing, which made the final price on the car cheaper. they didn't care if 4 years later the paint would start to bubble and peel off. they never thought the Eclipse, Seabrings, or the Neons would last very long in production. they were right about the neons, and Seabrings, wrong about the Eclipse.

how true that is bullet.

Either way somebody needs to learn how to paint an eclipse properly, cause from the 1g's to the 3g's I've seen quite a few of all of them that have horrible paint jobs that are peeling and bubbling all over the place.

I do - then again, my paintjobs range from 5k and up.

true. But if I were to get my car repainted I would probably take it to your shop or one that does comparable work. Cause if I was gonna spend the money, I'd want to make sure that it was getting done right.

Paint jobs are silly on daily drivers, especially if you ever plan on reselling; you dump 3k+ into the car and more than likely suffer a decrease in eventual sale price because people assume that it means the car had to have body work done. Just glad I have a silver.

Yes - a new paintjob can decrease a vehicles value, however - if the cars paint is in that bad of condition to begin with, it will probably INCREASE the value.

People can assume all they want, but if everything is documented and you show you just had it repainted to fix the defects in the paint from factory - you're fine.

Before and after photos.

Like SC said, it will probably even out in the eventual sale. Cause you sell someone a car with a piece of crap paint job, then you're not getting very much out of the car. You sell someone a car that's been repainted, and just show them the reason why you had it repainted and as EMC stated do before and after photos, then you'll get more money out of the car and probably end up with more money overall than if you were not to spend the money on a paintjob and leave the paint looking terrible.

That and don't worry I have an 03 that's silver(as my name makes obvious) and I still have places where the clearcoat is starting to bubble. Yours will do it too just give it time.