Okay guys..... My BBY Front Bumper and hood are destroyed. I looks like it has some type of White chicken pocks on it because so much paint has chipped away...

Now this is my 4th Mistubishi (I had 7 cars in my life) and I have never had paint get this destroyed.... It is so bad it seems as though it was a manu. defect.

What is the best way to solve this?

1) Re-paint Hood and Front Bumper... Cost?

2) Purchase new Stock bumper and paint it... cost?

3) Buy after market Bumper and hood and paint it? Cost?

its a new mod

If you are going to do anything...I'd go aftermarket, maybe carbon fiber hood

man, i am in the same boat as you. except mine is tarmac black. every tarmac black daily driven evo that i have seen shares the same misery as well. i'd say repaint the stock and get a cf hood. mitsu's paint quality is horrible. i took mine to a body shop & they said that it is without a doubt due to poor paint quality and not because its a daily driver. He said that he saw a few lancers suffer the same and that like mine they were all under 20k miles. the front end of mine looks as if a bug hit it, that it would take paint off. i took it to the dealer after speaking with the paint guy & they told me that it was due to road hazards. they said that they could schedule an appointment for me to meet with a rep when he came to the dealership but he assured me that it would not be covered under warranty. so i got stuck with the sandblasted look.

anyhow, the paint guy i know quoted me 200 to redo the whole front bumper. he is a friend of a friend though so i would imagine he was saving me a bit. he also said 3 days downtime. im waiting until i get another daily before i go for it. im going cf hood as well, but keeping the stock front.

Regardless of what you buy, just remember, 3M protective film is your friend.

Take it to a shop and have them strip and polish the whole hood.

Carbon hood = old n busted

fully polished hood = new hotness

Just take it back to the dealer. Mitsu will almost certainly repaint it under warranty.

I hope that was a joke... repaint the front bumper, get a carbon fiber hood and get it clear bra'd.

Well I just had some work done on my car -- the body part repair was a bit more expensive that I had hoped for: replacing the lower lip and painting in, repaiting the rear bumper -- cost me 860+ ....that was just the body work ...ugh!

pm me if your intrested, i have a vis cf hoody for sale....

^^^were you wearing lipstick? did they at least take you out to dinner. i cracked my back bumper and the back panal was bent where it touches the bumper and it was ground down from a cement wall. i needed new parts like a wheel well and some other stuff under the trunk. all parts factory parts purchased from dealer, installed, and painted in one day of down time for $650. my dad's friend did this, but you said you had a friend doing it too. i guess i was quoted $1000 by one shop, but that was in a very yuppie town that tried to rip me off.