Passed on my 2024 Badlands today, 1-23-24 -- what would you have done?

[McLovin80]

For $59k I would pass too.

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[Ninjak]

Well, that was not good. They will sell it though. With the way the Bronco's are rolling out now, a re-order is not a big deal.

 

[Cux211]

Nope, I woulda passed as well they’d have to do a lot better than a couple hundred bucks even then idk

 

[Squatch]

When you said you were "particular," I expected to see a classic overreaction post...

...wow, I would've walked too! Those are legit complaints and a few hundo is less than 1/2% and those panels make up more than 0.5% of the painted body... dang.

Good on you for walking.

 

[Dirty Bronco]

Rock chips and dirty inside. How many miles were on it when you arrived at the dealership? Is it possible someone took it for a joy ride?

 

[BroncoStang]

Great, I hope this isn't an omen for the rest of us also taking delivery soon. That's a bummer.

 

[Hwycycle]

I appreciate the responses. The more I think about it, I’m glad I walked.

The manager seemed more than happy for me to leave it.. he said he’ll touch up the chips and have a PDR guy work the creases.

Purchase order showed 4 miles, and when I arrived it had 5 miles. I think it was detailed on the exterior and driven to a gas station for fuel.

Forgot to mention, 45 psi all around & still in transport mode.

The dealer was 2:30 drive from my house. When I placed the order… local dealers didn’t have allocations, were charging ADM or adding packages.

On the way home, I stopped at my local dealer… he has allocations, honors X-plan and said he’ll try to modify an existing order.

 

[HotLap]

Don’t blame you for passing, sucks, however your timing is better now that Broncos are starting to appear in dealer inventories and X Plan is back, look around at other dealers, you might find another Badlands to take home. My LFD in Santa Maria has several new Broncos in inventory now.

 

[Area51BS]

Why Ford doesn’t ship vehicles with protective film is beyond me. They come in looking like shlt.

 

[Tortuga]

I am not very picky and I would have passed on that.

 

[Haelous]

Correct choice. Discount wasn't large enough for the issues. I absolutely would've refused delivery, a new vehicle should be dent free.

 

[flip]

Sounds like they did a very poor PDI and minimal cleanup. While there's a lot of little things that can be missed when checked in from the transport, not touching up that many rock chips prior to delivery means their a broken process. Could be the cleanup person just doesn't care or there's no attention paid to detail at any point in the process. Chips likely came from transport which is mostly unavoidable depending on where it was stacked in the load.

Hitch and related parts can be bought outside of the Ford accessory "kit", as individual pieces cheaper than the kit itself.

 

[JT58Bronc]

Not a good dealer. First they should have done a better job of prepping and noticing the defects you pointed out. Then maybe discussed them with you and offered to take care of the defects and explain what they would do. Since they didn't, I would pressed the issue and asked them if they could fix the defects, give you a discount for having to wait for the defects to be fixed and let you inspect after the repairs and then let you decide if you wanted it or not. If they were not willing to do this, then walking was the right decision. The trailer hitch thing is pretty bad too. National back order.......trailer hitch is so simple and not rocket science to be on back order.

That's one thing that terrifies me on these cool Broncos- and I love mine dearly. But if it breaks down and needs a part- it will be very expensive and how long of a wait to get it. I am not so sure I can keep mine in retirement as my only vehicle. My 87 Squarebody restoration is nearly complete. I can get parts for it no problem, everywhere and they are so cheap. And it's so easy to work on......

 

[Alpha]

Why Ford doesn’t ship vehicles with protective film is beyond me. They come in looking like shlt.

Especially when there are brands that are a fraction of the price with protective measures take.

 

[Syringe]

So sorry about that. Like another poster said, I'm not particularly picky, but I would have passed on that as well. I say that as I'm going to be picked up at 2 PM by my local Ford dealer to take delivery of my Badlands, which arrived this morning [haven't seen it yet]. But, thank you for the warning; I will sure be checking the new unit thoroughly!

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