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Had to replace the check engine light and when a mechanic removed the dash to open it up it just cracked into MANY pieces throughout my ENTIRE dash (driver to passenger side)!!! Barely any force was applied at all. I am a witness to that. Are there any recalls, because obviously this is very thin and cheap plastic? Please help!! Also any info available for wet driver side floors. Repeatedly noticed a lot of water after driving in or right after the rain.
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Unfortunately there are not going to be any recalls on the dash Mitsubishi are just going to say that UV kills plastic and you live in a hot area! As for the wet floor on the driver's side, It is best to look for water leaks when everything is dry. First is the door seal or door, damaged in anyway? I have seen the seat belt having damaged the door seal on many vehicles. Do the doors close flush with body? Ensure the door seal makes good and uniform contact with the door (particularly important if the vehicle has been involved in an accident. You may need to pull back carpets pull back the carpets and sit inside the car (you may need a flashlight) and get a friend with a garden hose to spray water around the door jams to determine if the water is entering the doorway. Then spray water around the windscreen moving around the circumference of the windscreen. Look around the windscreen area and look up from the floor mat area (as best you can) to determine if water is leaking in around the windscreen seal. Is there any rust around the windscreen area or body work? If you have a sun roof there is a drain tube at each corner of the roof to channel away water. A blocked drain may cause water to fall from the sunroof area Water can also come up through the floor pan as you drive through water on the road, if any rubber bung or “seam sealer†has been disturbed or is missing.
I have an 2003 spyder and have always kept a dash cover on it, but the plastic dash is inferior and the cover over the radio broke on mine. I found someone on ebay selling one from a wrecked car and bought it, was in good condition when arrived. As far as the wet floor on the drivers side....I had the same problem but it wasn't from the convertible top or any other seal, it was actually the A/C drip line that was cracked and instead of the condensation running out the bottom of the car, it was just broken just far enough over the center that it leaked onto the drivers side floor (front and rear). I took it to my mechanic and they replaced it for me...no more wet problems. Hope that helps.