Micro-marring on vinyl stripes

[46foxcoupe]

My stripes appear to have scratches. I've seen similar scratches on vinyl from the use of a plastic squeegee for the installation. I think they will come out with some light abrasive compound/wax


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[raceguy388]

Returned the car for some terrible vinyl stripes, this car must not live up to the hype, I think I would of made the dealer make some deal where the Have them painted on!! The time people have waited for this car seems to out weight some bad stripes!!

 

[Voodooo]

Returned the car for some terrible vinyl stripes, this car must not live up to the hype, I think I would of made the dealer make some deal where the Have them painted on!! The time people have waited for this car seems to out weight some bad stripes!!

To paint them on the correct way would involve removing all the trim and bumpers. Glass. Etc. then sand the whole car down. Then lay out the stripes and then re clear the whole car. They will never do that for free and why should we pay for more for their clumsiness. I'll bet you all the scratches are from the installers. They installed the stripes then removed the paper from the stripes non adhesive side before squeeging out the soapy water and air bubbles. Their for creating the scratches.

 

[46foxcoupe]

As in demand as these cars are, I imagine the dealer would gladly take it back before replacing or painting stripes. I've owned many new cars and they've all had some sort of flaw. Transport damage happens all the time, and detail work such as buffing and touch up are almost expected. I'm surprised mine wasn't damaged during shipment. I have video of them backing it off the transport when the warning decal says to load it backwards.


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[Stage_3]

Yes, combined with the fact that there was other damage to vehicle during transport, it needed a new door seal and had a significant paint flaw on the hood, I elected not to pay $60k+ for a such a vehicle.
It's kind of killing me that Ford will ship a RHD ecoboost mustang to europe covered, a $46k 50 year ltd mustang covered, but can't be bothered to ship a $58k GT350 covered.

I don't blame you one bit!! I would have been very pissed and very disappointed.
I just ordered a '16 truck a couple of weeks ago. If it comes in damaged or is missing any of the 9 options I did the build sheet with,....I'm not accepting it and I'll buy myself a '16 Roush supercharged truck.

Yup, marring extended in to the paint. It just wasn't as noticeable on the white surfaces. You can see it a little in the last photo.

Yeah,...that's really pour. Hard to tell if the car was sent out like that or if the "detailing crew" at the dealership went a little overboard with the polisher. That's unacceptable.

Yeah, because there's definitely not going to be any issues with that procedure right? I considered it. But I'm standing there and the GM is talking to the body shop guy and the body shop guy says "No, we don't do stripes here, we have to farm it out to Fernando."
And as I said, there were half a dozen other damage/defect items on the car. I could list them but what's the point.

As soon as I heard that,.......that would have sealed the deal for sure, as if it weren't already.
Good luck man!

 

[CliffClavin]

Wow, looks like someone learning how to use a rotary for the first time with a wool pad. Are you looking for a new one now?

 

[travis1978]

If mine is delivered like that I would refuse it also. Crazy. That would hurt so bad to send it back.

 

[_M_]

That is definitely bad! I don't think it was an orbital, I think that would've burned the stripes versus marring them unless they just went over quickly.

I don't know what the other issues were, but if they could be fixed by ford I would've let them do it and just rip the stripes off. The white looks so good sans stripe.

Maybe you just didn't really want the car??

 

[redline727]

Maybe you just didn't really want the car??

Of course he didn't. A car he waited months for, under delivered. When you wait for a limited production car that long, the anticipation builds up and what you have been envisioning that whole time is nothing short of prefect. You don't want the finish to look like a used car that went through a dirty automatic car wash. The QC or lack thereof from Ford has been horrible on all s550's. It's upsetting even for me to hear these shortcomings made it the GT350's as well, and I'm not even a future owner.

Paint can be corrected with the scratches shown, but those stripes can't be corrected. They can only be replaced or removed. And if the OP can't trust Ford with the job why should he trust Fernando haha. If it got to that point there is too much invested and wouldn't be as easy to walk away from the deal. He did the right thing. Especially if there were other issues not even mentioned. Bc he would have only found more after the honeymoon phase was over.

 

[Steve68]

Wow, yeah, redline pretty much summed it up very well.

And yeah, to suggest I didn't want the car is f'in absurd. I worked on getting this car for 5-6 months and had weekly, sometimes daily contact with the salesman. Some of you guys suggesting "You returned the car over some scratches?" didn't have your $58k + 5k adm + 5.5k TTL + $4K finance charge for a grand total of something like $72k over 5-6 years for a Mustang with a finish that looked worse than my 7 year old Bullitt Mustang when I sold it a few months ago. Oh yeah, did I mention I sold my Bullitt Mustang to get the GT350?

So if you want a mustang for $72K that looks like it was rubbed on with 400 grit sandpaper along with a half dozen other defects, feel free to track it down.

 

[_M_]

Of course the stripes can't be corrected, but they can be replaced. The paint stuff is nothing. A good detail and you're done. Unless the other issues were absolute deal breakers, as in the car appeared to be a lemon, buy it and flip it for crying out loud. Someone right now will pay a couple grand over what he paid unless there was a huge ADM.

I am sure there are plenty of people backing out that we don't even know about it because the car isn't what they thought it would be, didn't really consider the price of the car and realized it's expensive, or for whatever reason. The time and wait might actually help people get over the honeymoon phase and decide its not the car for them. It's not that obsurd to have people back out

Edit: I see your ADM now and yeah probably can't flip it, but ya never know. Might be someone out there...

 

[_M_]

Thats a high TTL isn't it? Nearly 10%

 

[CANTWN4LSN]

Would like to see a list of the other defects you found so can look for them when my car arrives.
Would like to know for sure if this was a prep issue and what caused it, installation issue, or transport/delivery issue. Looks more like a prep/buffing issue. Never owned a car with stripes so am a little concerned about longevity. Ordered OW with blue stripes but am considering my second choice instead, DIB with black roof/no stripes if these stripes are going to be a problem. Input? Others with stripe problems?

 

[_M_]

^ actually a good question. Would be great if you would list them so those of us that haven't received our cars can just have a checklist to go over and make sure we don't have the same issues and can get them corrected

 

[Steve68]

They're not going to be common issues I don't think. Probably one-offs to this instance.

1. Driver's side door seal had been torn such that it was separated from the nubs that go in to a hole and hold it against the sheet metal and it had to be ordered/replace. this is the seal that starts just under the glass and wraps down under the door near the rocker panel and back up again.
2. The right (facing the front of the car) carbon-fiber grill fang had a 4" long and deep abrasion on it and needed to be replaced. Looked like it may have taken an impact during transport. (The impact may have also caused the next issue.)
3. Also in the grill opening there was a 1/2" square area where the paint had been rubbed off by the grill down to the bare metal. It was a very inconspicuous area but needed to be fixed to prevent further corrosion and deterioration.
4. There was a foreign object in the paint on the hood near the passenger side windshield area. About the size of a grain of sand but raised and a rust color had already began to form around the object. I found this today as I inspected the stripes. There may have been other paint issues but I never got that far.

There was at least one other that I'm not recalling. I'll update if I remember.

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