Possible Crash Cover Up: SHELBY GT350

GT350 owners, I need your help! I just purchased a new GT350. After I purchased it, I noticed terrible gaps between the rear bumper and the body. After a few events with this dealer, needles to say, I don't trust them and will not be taking the car back to be serviced at their location.

From the looks of the bumper, it looked like a couple clips were not hooked on causing the massive gap in my bumper. Instead of wasting my time at a Ford service center, I decided to just take the bumper off and re attach it correctly. I got as far as removing the tail light before I saw what appears to be a collision repair job on the two inwards plastic support assemblies for the bumper. I need to know if this is normal for the GT350s. It appears the plastic support assemblies have been purposely soldered to the rear bumper. It does not look OEM by any means, and I believe will prevent the rear bumper from being removed at all.

Here's the gap





Here's with the head lights off






Here's a link in the pictures don't show up:
https://goo.gl/photos/BS7v9HBmgLEMFTVV6

If any of you have had your tail lights off, please let me know if this is normal.

Looks just like shitty Ford quality.

jasonstang said:

Looks just like shitty Ford quality.

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Looks like its right off the line to me

Kidding aside, you need to go back to where you bought it. How long have you had it? It might come down to he said/she said, but you need to get on it. I nit picked my car before it left the lot......

Best of luck

First thought, it may have been damaged in transit or during offload at the dealership. If this is the case I could see a dealer trying to cover it up.
Thank you for pointing this out. Adding it to my check list when I go to pick up mine.

No thats a cover up, get a lawyer....sue them for a new car or restitution! Question though how did you not see that before delivery?

can't see the pics...

***GT350*** said:

can't see the pics...

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They seem to be intermittent. The site just crashed and maybe still in the reboot process

true story---a friend bought a Raptor, brand new, took delivery. Few days later, as he was detailing the car, he realized the car had been re-painted on couple of panels. Fast forward, he strolled into the dealership and raised hell. Somehow the dealership and Ford worked it out, and ordered my friend a new raptor. This happened 5 years ago in here---the great S Cal.

all I see is do not enter sign

You walking into the dealership raising hell won't do much. Contact your local media and watch how the dealer scrambled. A friend bought a Vert. Mustang, like you, she noticed some repairs was done. She tried several times dealing with the GM, they kept brushing her off. I told her to contact "Mark on your side", a local newscaster. She went back to the dealer, GM said he can't help her, she said find, Mark from Channel 5 is on his way down, I'll sit here and wait for him. Suddenly, he offered to investigate, give her a loaner, and pay her car payment while they investigate, if she's willing to call off Mark. 1 week later, they bought her car back. The last thing the dealer want is being on the news.

I can't see the pics

I've included a link to the photos if they don't load.

Thanks for all your comments. Has anyone had their tail lights out to see if this is a common way they put the bumpers on with our cars?

If it has been damaged. I'll reach out to Ford first, then the dealer, then the media, then a lawyer.

First, the gap between panels seems to be normal :tsk:

I really can tell what's going on in the other pics

gaps look "normal" to me as mine shows similar types of gap. I asked my dealer to send me pics of another gt350 that he has in the showroom and it looked the same. He also added "all of his mustangs" have the same issue of rear bumper fitment. I won't be taking off the bumper as I'm really mechanically-challenged!

I wonder....if the assembly line has been instructed to literally hold a heat-gun in their hands, and simply heat the crap out of these plastics so they can push the bumper on.

No way the management and QC would think the misalignments from the thousands of these mustangs are"within tolerance". My question is how much longer (if they have not started) will it be before they decide to address the issue.

Sorry those are not good photos of the gap. I'm really just trying find out if this soldering the plastic is a normal Ford assembly line procedure. If not, then the dealer sold me a car they messed up, and didn't even fix it properly. The gap is way bigger than I've seen on any mustang. You can see that there are clips that are not actually connected.