2002 Ford Mustang Coupe from North America - Comments

Paint is peeling off the hood of the car. After many emails to the dealership, and a call to Ford Company. They advised me to take it to the dealer and have them take pictures and send them in to them with a quote for repair. Well, I am past the warranty and they refuse to fix it. Now, I am trying to figure out why the paint is peeling. Going to take this further if someone doesn't paint the hood of the car. Absolutely disgusted.

Eh, not that fast a car, considering it is a mustang. I don't race, but when I need to pick up speed, it takes a few seconds.

What do you expect? You have a V6 Mustang!

Well mabey sombody threw somthing on your paint how can you expect ford to pay for that geeze.. some people.

Let's see it's a 2002 with 36000 miles...

The dealer doesn't have to help you unless it's a recalled or under warranty.

Maybe you live in a snow bound area and salt has eaten away at the paint, or something got on the hood (some paint thinner or something), or you don't wash the car, or it could be a number of things.

Go hit a auto body shop and get your hood painted for like $50 or something.

First of all, manufacturers SHOULD take care of problems like this. I bought a Chrysler product a few years back and had exactly the same problem with the paint peeling off the front of the car. They fixed it with no hassle at all. If the problem was present BEFORE 36,000 miles(and you can prove it) or three years, then Ford is obligated by law to fix it unless they can prove it was caused by chemicals. Normally Ford paint jobs are top notch. I've owned 6 Mustangs since 1972 and never had any paint problems with any of them. One of them was 14 years old when I sold it and still looked brand new. Of course, all my cars are waxed twice a year with high-quality past wax. The 2001 I drive now looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor.

We bought a used 2002 Mustang Coupe and it, too, has the paint peeling off the hood now that the warranty has expired. Any new developments?

I also own a 2002 Mustang mine is GT and the paint is peeling off the hood and like you Ford says it is not there problem. You can tell it was not bonding correctly to the metal. Nothing that I did caused this problem. Didn't Ford have a similar problem in the 70's?

I own a 2002 sonic blue mustang coupe and the paint started peeling off of my hood about a year ago. I now have six or seven large chunks of paint missing -- one is about four inches long. I took the car to the dealer today and was quoted $700 to strip and paint the hood. The dealer was "shocked" and insisted that I must have replaced the factory hood with one of lesser quality. This is not the case... no damage was ever done to the hood and nothing was replaced... this one is all Ford.

I have a 1997 Ford Mustang and my paint started peeling back too! Once it starts there is little you can do to stop it and it progresses very fast. Yes this is a Ford defect... are they going to admit it... what do you think!