Delivery damage on 2020 GT350
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If it’s exactly the car you want, I would do option B all day.
Mount the original damaged bumper on the garage wall
Good luck.
-J
Mount the original damaged bumper on the garage wall
Good luck.
-J
Me too, I see this ^^^^^^ problem in the fender area. That could add a bunch to the repair cost.
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The dealer needs to take off the price for repair, plus your time dealing with it. Start at 3000, settle at 2500. Everyone wins. Get it fixed and enjoy it.
Yep, that's what I saw too. My guess is the cover got pushed from the bottom, maybe hitting a little too steep of a ramp and it pushed the cover up into the fender causing that small buckle/brow there.
Any damage beneath the car?
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I should know next week.
Awesome car BTW! Hope your extra time/trouble yields some mods!
B. Unless this car is never to see the street, its the first of many imperfections this car will have. Take the discount, pop the bumper in and get them to give you a free bottle of touch up. Easy to then have a bumper repair service touch up guy fix it.
I guarantee you that the dealer would have a local vendor come in and repair on the car then put it in the showroom.
I guarantee you that the dealer would have a local vendor come in and repair on the car then put it in the showroom.
I would keep my options open, let the dealer contact Ford & get their response. You paid for a " new " car, & didn't check the " damaged front end body work " option box..
I have no doubt that his shop will be able to make it look like it was never damaged, but in order to make it actually perfect the whole car would basically have to be repainted because of possible differing paint brands and just mixing. A blue metallic like that, especially a special color from Ford, will have to be blended probably into mid-door in order to blend it right after the fender repair is complete, but even then the paint still won't be exact so what the painter will have to do is trick the eye with how he blends it so you don't see the blend line and different shades from the factory color to the new paint, even the differences in the clearcoat, especially if you use something like Glazurit. Did I mention the painter also has to get the flake to lay whatever way the factory metallic flake is laying? This is why great painters get paid big bucks!
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B. As other have pointed out, it's going to get grit-blasted on the track anyway, this way you don't have that anxiety over the first little boo-boo. Maybe even hold off on putting the new parts on for a season or two or three, when the originals have accumulated some wear.
Don't we have a member who's a Ford dealer? Wouldn't mind getting his view on this.
nope. a quality shop will make it look perfect.
Thats more than just the bumper though
Option B but no way I’d replace the bumper. I’d just have that repaired, blend the passenger side of the cover do a full clear coat so there are no rough patches to “burn in” as that’s a dated repair method and I’d install new stripes. Pocket the difference and put it towards something else like gas and seat time.
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