All three of the beavers I have had have had either one or two cracks in this exact same area, on my 03 marquis, someone made two 4" x 4" aluminum plates and glued them over this area, they colour matched the paint scheme and they actually look pretty good. On my 2000 marquis I tried to fix the one crack that it had , did a proper fibreglass repair, because I was reprinting that area anyway, turned out great until it cracked again about 3 weeks later.