I will tell you one thing, I bought a 91 Dodge Spirit from my mom. I
never had a problem with the car. The paint was screwed up from day
one. When my mom owned the car she had Dodge paint part of the car
three times. The trunk was pitted bad. Of course the people that
painted it, just painted over the pits. Guess what? The pits where
still there, so they painted it again. Now all of a sudden the paint on
the roof is peeling (seen this a lot on the caravan roofs). I am
selling it, so I don't give a rats a**, but still, you would think that
you can get 10 years from a factory paint job (if you take care of it,
which for the record, I did). I have always been told that factory
paint jobs are better than what Joe auto body guy can do. I don't think
so Tim.
Glenn Ayotte
Bristol, CT
>----------
>From: Jon Steiger[SMTP:stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 2:26 AM
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>Subject: Re: DML: Paint problems??
>
>At 08:32 PM 4/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>I have a 97' black Dakota Sport and I'm very happy with it except for
>>one thing. The paint job sucks!!! After the first month, Paint started
>>falling off the front bumper. Now,...9 months later, there's a whole
>>strip of paint that has fallen out of the front bumper. Also, the rest
>>of the body gets scratched so easy!! I don't think the paint is thick
>>enough.
>> A couple of weeks ago, I saw another dakota like mine on the
>>road,(white), and it had the same problem on it's bumper.
>>Were their any recalls on this? Does anyone else have this problem with
>>their 97' dakota??
>
> Warning, anti-Mopar sentiments follow! ;-)
>
> What the heck is wrong with Dodge?!?!? The paint job on my '96 has held
>up fine; I have no complaints, but the number of complaints about bad
>paint jobs, paint flaking off, etc is overwhelming! And its not just
>the '97's, I think every model year is plagued with this problem. This is
>obviously a VERY common problem. Did they forget to administer the mandatory
>drug tests to the guys in the paint booth, or what??? I know, maybe the
>ventilation fan is broken. ;-) Sure, I realize that there were some
>problems
>when the EPA made 'em switch the paint a little while ago, but the folks in
>the body shops seem to be able to make it stick!!
>
> There are a bunch of people on this list alone who had their trucks
>repainted at Dodge's expense (or partially at Dodge's expense, in some
>cases). You'd think one of the penny pinchers up at corporate would make
>the connection! "Dahhh, maybe there's a problem here..."
>
> Come on, Dodge... You've got an AWESOME product here, QUIT SCREWING UP
>OUR PAINT JOBS!!!! Once we get 'em to keep the paint on the truck, we can
>work on the orange peel. One thing at a time...
>
> Ok, that accomplished nothing, but I do feel better now. ;-)
>
>
>
> -Jon-
>
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