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This made me laugh way to hard!! They say misery loves company. Didnāt want you to be lonely.Mine arrived with that same swinggate dent! We're dent siblings!
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This made me laugh way to hard!! They say misery loves company. Didnāt want you to be lonely.Mine arrived with that same swinggate dent! We're dent siblings!
Yeah, that is what my gut tells me. Iām going to wait until they give me an update on their proposal before I make any decisions. I know it is at the body shop, and they are preparing an estimate to present to Ford. They said they would let me know how bad it is, and let me decide. Either way I am waiting a fix, or a new build. Then, what if that comes damaged?! That would be awful.Good lord. Iād be half tempted to refuse it and get one reordered. Donāt care if they fix it and sell to someone else. Seems like a lot of damage to a brand new car. In my experience stuff like that gets sent to auction by ford and canāt be sold as new. But thatās escapes and super duties, not sure if the same applies to Broncos.
I've heard of dealer reps being able to get orders in for situations like this that get top priority. That's what I would want from my dealer/dealer rep.Yeah, that is what my gut tells me. Iām going to wait until they give me an update on their proposal before I make any decisions. I know it is at the body shop, and they are preparing an estimate to present to Ford. They said they would let me know how bad it is, and let me decide. Either way I am waiting a fix, or a new build. Then, what if that comes damaged?! That would be awful.
Donāt know about the Bronco specifically, but overall less than 0.1% (or 1 in 1000) vehicles jump the chalks during rail transport. That does not necessarily mean they are damaged.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.
They 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 (canāt 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.What the? Did they leave it in neutral and no parking brake? I know that they donāt strap them down in the rail cars but that looks like it just kept rolling back and forth as the train accelerated and slowed down. Thatās just negligence!
My brother had a mustang fall off the train in 89. I had 2 other friends have special order trucks get totaled in shipping. It happens we are just all more aware now with the interwebI'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.
For this...yes it would definitely be going into CarFax.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.