My Bronco arrived damaged. It tried to buck its way out of the train transport last week. 😖

[Lilj4425]

Dang. I am in SC too. Hopefully mine wasn’t on the same train.

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[Garemlin]

Sorry I'd have to refuse delivery and have another one ordered. It would always bother me knowing it was damaged and repaired before I even took it home.

 

[DUSTYcazOREGON]

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.

I know right......
Some of the photos I have seen on the car haulers....looks very tight. I wonder if it's they don't know or have experience yet in driving a lot of these new Broncos.

 

[refade1]

Hope the dealer can work something out!

 

[BareBack]

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.

Don't you expect another new one? I would !

 

[JaxGtc]

And we thought that $1495 delivery charge was all profit. I bet those carriers (rail and truck) have pretty high insurance rates.

 

[flip]

Do not accept. That’s over the disclosure limit and needs to go back. Will completely suck in the short term but better long term.

 

[FATHORSE]

Sorry that this happened to your Horse. My Bronco is supposed to start build on Monday, The window sticker says Rail as transport. I thought I was having some sleepless nights before. Now I'm really going to be tossing and turning. I hope Ford takes care of all you guys that are getting railed. I wouldn't take ownership of a damaged Truck. Like everyone else said, without a huge cut in price. Plus a extended warranty!

 

[subshooter]

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.

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.

I have a fair amount of experience with buying foreign cars. They actually have a company at the port to fix these minor cosmetic things like door dings or scuffs. This one might be different.

 

[andrusoid]

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 !

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.

 

[dragon6172]

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 (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.

Chocks are used on wheels. Chalk is used to outline bodies, or make hopscotch squares

 

[Deleted member 21681]

They had ONE job. Condolences, friend.

 

[BigFootie]

I’ve had one car delivered with the front passenger fender a different shade of non metallic red. Picked the car up at night and didn’t notice it. At the end of the day I accepted it and it really never bothered me again. I couldn’t tell from the drivers seat! .

It’s a tough call in these times. If you could easily get another in a few weeks, I’d refuse it and tell them to start over. However, most never know that their car was damaged on the rail transport and fixed before they got it. No car fax issue. Sometimes it’s better not knowing!

Best of luck to you no matter what your decision is.

 

[Boxer4]

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.

From AutoBlog-
“Most states set a threshold of three to six percent of the MSRP as the required amount for disclosure to a buyer”

I had an new F150 damaged in transit and didn’t know until dealer disclosed during delivery. Worked out that they provided me 6 oil changes/ tire rotations free

 

[BroncoBuckaroo]

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 !

Well you didn’t pay for it yet..so you don’t have to accept it ..hopefully will get you a new replacement

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