Changing the oil today with my son, and I noticed some paint under the noise pipe going into the cabin was peeling up. The car just turned over 41k recently. I'm probably out of luck with warranty right?

 

It's worth a try at the dealer. I would however say that was done chemically via brake fluid. Has anyone filled the master cylinder reservoir recently like at a jiffy lube, etc. ? If so they dripped some and it attacked the paint. That's exactly what brake fluid will do to paint.

 

Looks like Brake Fluid dripped on the paint below the Master Cylinder, was the Clutch Line Changed on the car?

 

I haven't done any work there since I got the car March of 13. No one else has done any work on my car since then either, except one trip to the dealer for a front end noise and crappy sync update. I know that means I'm over due on a brake fluid change, but that hasn't been touched. I am however the second owner, but the car only had 7k miles on it when I got it.

I guess that could mean the brake fluid could have leaked out of the top and dripped.

 

Is the car a 6 speed. Mamnual? Because it appears to be a SS Clutch Line!

 

It's manual, and the car was 100% stock when I got it. I haven't done a clutch line swap.

 

Is the Clutch Line Braided SS?

 

This is very common when you use your brakes a lot and heat up the fluid. This will happen if you do a lot of canyon driving spirited driving or obviously if you track your car.

 

I just think the line is covered in a black loom. That's how it looks to me.

 

That could be it, but instead of track or canyons its daiky traffic in Atlanta.

The clutch line is not braided SS.

 

Looking at the picture closer, O see it appear to be a Stock Factoy Clutch Line, like someone else said, it probably just over flowed enough to drip on the paint below and eat the paint!

 

If it were me. I would hit it with some 1000 grit sand paper. Spray some self etching primer on the spot. Then I would get myself some grabber blue touch up and spray it over.

 

It's a pretty difficult spot, but I do have some touch up paint from when someone ran into my bumper a little over a year ago. I may have to go ahead and do the repair myself.