Joining up

[Paris MkVI]

After 15 happy years in our Gen5 2006, we're now joining Gen6 with our new-to-us 2015.

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[Avispa]

Nothing like a yellow/black convertible!

The screen name license plate is available in FL if you want it....lol

 

[Paris MkVI]

I bet that Cobra was a blast. The S550s, though, are in the big leagues! I am truly impressed by this car.

 

[CVCashmere]

I bet that Cobra was a blast. The S550s, though, are in the big leagues! I am truly impressed by this car.

i wanted the yellow/black vert, but my wife said I was too old...

Sigh....so i Modded a white one.

Looks great!

CVCashmere

 

[Avispa]

Too old???? Your wife just didn't want you attracting all that attention. I have to make up for boring blue with loud exhaust. Makes the children scratch their heads seeing the gray headed old goat in the too loud car.

Yeah, the Cobra was hard to give up. A Whipple 2.3 helps a lot. Y'all need something like that on vfc your S550s.

 

[Paris MkVI]

Learned some interesting things about our new ride. The date on the Monroney sticker is 11/24/2014. The car was titled 11/26/14 - to Ford Motor Company. Found the first registration and paperwork indicating it was a company fleet vehicle. Over a year later, in December 2015, it went to Crossroads Ford in NC - with less than 300 miles.

I am wondering if she was a trailer queen display car her first year, going to car shows and events. We got her last week with just 51k on the odometer.

 

[Tim_]

Very likely it was doing something like that. Check your panel gaps and see if they’re better than average because that might give away a bit of its past.

Ours was sat in a Ford display in dealer stock for a couple of months before we bought it, because of that they fixed all the panel gaps properly.

It backfired later on when another Ford dealer said it had been in a crash and pointed to the missing paint on the bolts where they’d been loosened to adjust the panels. I had to phone the supplying dealer to get them to confirm it was a display car and not a crash damaged repair

 

[Paris MkVI]

. . .pointed to the missing paint on the bolts where they’d been loosened to adjust the panels. . .

OK, now I have to go out and start eyeballing all the bolts! The gaps do look pretty good. Not easy with all the flow and curves in this sheet metal.

 

[Tim_]

I’ve found there are a few areas:

1) bonnet leading edge to bumper gap. When you look at the car from the front on some of the earlier 2015’s and 2016’s had a variable gap between the bonnet and bumper as you look left to right across the front of the car. Ford fixed this, a body shop can do this too, leaving it made them look a bit silly!

2) wing to door gap, they look fine at the top of the parts but as you go down to the body line which is about shin height on a person they all, every single one, aren’t aligned great. That body line makes you think the car has had a nudge or a small hit at some point but then you go and look at every other mustang in the car park and they’re all the same, some better than others.

3) headlight to bumper gapping. Mine isn’t the same on both sides, but they’re often like that and it’s not worth fixing unless you need to take the bumper off for some other reason, even then it might never be improved.

4) rear decklid to rear lights/rear bumper. They all seem to be bad. I had a dealer point at mine and say the car had clearly been in a crash. I took him outside to the show room where he had a brand new 18MY which had delivery miles on it and pointed at his far, far worse fitting decklid and asked him if he was suggesting Ford crash all their cars before they’re shipped from Flatrock.

 

[CVCashmere]

The gaps on my vert are inconsistent. Oh well...never worried about it before.

CVCashmere

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