Thanks. That's a great suggestion--to ask to talk to the dealer if they don't agree to fix it. I bought the car used, the previous owner was a rental company, but the carfax was clean.

don't know for sure if it's covered yet. it's on the outside face of door.

did some research and figured out it's surface corrosion. I'm going to take it to a dealer as I believe it's covered in the 6 year/100k mile warranty on Corrosion Protection: "Pontiac vehicles are designed and build to resist corrosion. All body and sheet metal components are warranted against ...

36K miles

The frame around the window of the driver's door on my 2009 Vibe is unpainted and beginning to rust--not at the edges, but evenly across the surface. It is as if the piece of metal along the top and sides of the window missed the factory conveyor belt where paint and weather coating were being appli...