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Paint Chips Again 07 Outlander
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I said I would follow up with a few kms under our belt. Now at 9500 km. Only the past 600 or so have been on winter roads with a few miles of the usual road "sand". The few chips I received on my first 4000 km trip have been joined by over 30 on both sides of the car - the full length of the rocker panel all the way up to first indent crease. White undercoat behind red is pretty noticeable and very disappointing. I have a couple of other cars in the driveway with over 300,000 km on each and neither has so much a one chip and they have been driven by me on winter roads for over 10 years - now this is either very poor design and or very very poor paint quality - and yes I have the front and rear mud flaps.
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keeping down the sandbalsting effect? I am trying to get my dealer to at least switch out my 18" to help the problem. Getting really nervouse about the whole situation, cannot believe Mitsubishi is such a poor company when it comes to their customers.
866-213-2873 (California Company) Call & they will give you local distributor.
I am in the northeast so I called Auto Elegance (talk to Joe) really knowledgable about his product. 800-277-6458
Too bad Mitsubishi couldn't provide something for all those with problems.
Enter in this forum the word “paint” in SEARCH and you will see the solutions for this paint chipping somewhere given by members in this forum. The best thing to do is to buy a mud-flap instead of a mud guard. However this has to be done the following day you bought your brand new car not after 1-2-3-4 months.
As for the mudflaps - they help only a little - looks like the running boards are the only real option based on the design flaw.
The body shop suggested the design of the front end would benefit for what we refer to as an Alberta bra - clear plastic coating one third of the distance from the grille back to the windshield both on the hood and the front fenders plus a run of the plastic along the side of the vehicle. Estimated cost over $700. now finding a competent applicator is a problem for me.
For some common sense solution: http://outlander.freeforums.org/mz380379ex-mud-guard-installation-t40.html (free registration required for non-members)