crxguy52

About a month ago I purchased a 04 S2000 with ~50k miles on it. It is in great shape - no door dings, and the paint was flawless aside from some rock chips. I jacked up the rear of the car today to fix a rattle (it turned out that the last guy didn't bolt down the brake line retaining clip, causing it to rattle over big bumps), and when I let it down I found this:



Needless to say I'm not too happy about it. Any ideas on why it happened, and how to fix it?

SheDrivesIt

Where exactly did you place the jack?

EOE

Looks like it was touched up.

wonder if the previous owner attempted to roll and the second he did it cracked. At that point... O HELLA SH*T , touch up paint, and SELL

crxguy52

I put the jack under the rear jack point, enough to get the right rear wheel off the ground. I have done this many many times with my CRX, and never had any issues.

I doubt he tried to roll the fenders, the car is completely stock. There were a few rock chips along the arch, which the crack connected. I wonder if there was a dent in that area that he had paintless-ly dent removed, but left the paint cracked. Whatever the reason, I think I'm going to have to have it professionally fixed >:0. From my first month of experience, the paint on these cars is very thin and isn't very good...