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Dang. I am in SC too. Hopefully mine wasn’t on the same train.
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I know right......I'm curious how common this is overall. Did we just not hear about it? Every week seems to be another report of a damaged bronco. Sorry man.
Don't you expect another new one? I would !FWIW, since you got it documented at PDI, they'll fix it. You'll just miss it while it's in the body shop getting sorted out. We all missed the swinggate on mine at PDI and we've submitted photos to Ford. I also showed it to Esteban Plaza-Jennings at Super Cel and he took my VIN, so I know it'll get resolved.
It's just annoying. Now that I've seen it, I can't unsee it until it gets fixed.
That is actually not true. Cars get damaged frequently in transport. (not this bad usually) and the dealer or some other company fixes the damage (door dings, scuffs etc). It happens. If it gets fixed before being handed over to the customer and as long as insurance is not used to fix it, it will never show up on the car's history.Ouch. If it was one or two panels it would be a easy fix. But that's looks bad. Even if it all get fixed you'll still have a mark on the car fax saying it was in a accident. And that will hurt its resale value in the future. Id ask Ford to discount it or get a lawyer involved.
My heart is slightly more broken, so sorry. A lot of it looks "fixable" but someone would have to be making a significant discount to make up for it.My Bronco was apparently not secured enough in the train last week. Waiting to hear about what the resolution will be. I was on my way back from the New Hampshire Off Roadeo when I got the news. Total buzzkill coming off of such a high from our experience in NH. Looking through other posts, I guess I am not the only one. Please, make it right @Ford Motor Company !
Chocks are used on wheels. Chalk is used to outline bodies, or make hopscotch squaresThey chalk them in the rail transports. Takes a bump force of roughly 8 mphs to jump the chalks on a typical vehicle. For that reason my railroad (can’t speak for the OPs shipper) has a classification limit of 6 mph on auto racks. That said, it still sometimes happens that bump forces will exceed 6 mph for a multiple reasons.
From AutoBlog-If it is delivery related, it'll never show up on the carfax as far as I know. I got suckered into buying a damaged vehicle many years ago under similar circumstances and it was clean.
Well you didn’t pay for it yet..so you don’t have to accept it ..hopefully will get you a new replacementMy Bronco was apparently not secured enough in the train last week. Waiting to hear about what the resolution will be. I was on my way back from the New Hampshire Off Roadeo when I got the news. Total buzzkill coming off of such a high from our experience in NH. Looking through other posts, I guess I am not the only one. Please, make it right @Ford Motor Company !