Mustangs damaged from derailed train

[roket]

My dealer got 2 Mustangs in today, both had front and rear damage, transporter drivers say it's because of the derailed train earlier in the month.

The damage happened to Mischievous Purple Mach 1 and EcoBoost

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[KilgoreLSU]

It's just a flesh wound.

 

[RowdyRam]

Purple M1 at a discount....someone may end up with a really good deal on it, and wouldn't feel bad about making it a daily (if they otherwise would feel bad about it, that is).

 

[SSSICK]

That would crush me if I had ordered one of these and waited 6-8 weeks for it to be built and delivered

 

[Rocket630]

Buff it out

 

[Davesvt2000]

Ford does not sell vehicles that are damaged from train derailments.
I call BS on the driver ….

 

[Gnatsum21]

Buff it out

I used sandpaper on mine.

 

[sukhoi_584th]

Ford does not sell vehicles that are damaged from train derailments.
I call BS on the driver ….

Yep that's BS. I'm ashamed to admit I lurk at trainorders.com and the people there, who generally know what they're talking about, unanimously say that vehicles from derailments are scrapped 100% of the time regardless of damage due to potential liability if sold.

 

[ice445]

Yep that's BS. I'm ashamed to admit I lurk at trainorders.com and the people there, who generally know what they're talking about, say that vehicles from derailments are scrapped 100% of the time regardless of damage due to potential liability if sold.

Yep, insurance always eats those whole. If I remember right they used to just bury the cars wherever they derailed, lmao.

 

[sukhoi_584th]

Yep, insurance always eats those whole. If I remember right they used to just bury the cars wherever they derailed, lmao.

Yep it's amazing what they're apparently allowed to bury. https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,5691841

 

[roket]

Ford does not sell vehicles that are damaged from train derailments.
I call BS on the driver ….

i dont blame you, i'm a bit suspicious of them too
we've been getting more damaged vehicles than usual in, though, including Mustangs, Transits, and F series trucks, so i'm kinda inclined to believe them. on the other hand, getting through El Mirage in a week sounds abnormally fast for that railyard, they normally take forever and a half to get anything through. it's possible that while these may have been in the unaffected rail cars, from what i've been told, vehicles in these trains are basically put in park and that's it, so they bumped other vehicles and were not damaged enough to worry about (some scratches on the bumpers, one had a small dent on the driver's door and driver's rear quarter panel), but again this is just a guess and i know all of nothing about the details of shipping vehicles by rail.

 

[ice445]

i dont blame you, i'm a bit suspicious of them too
we've been getting more damaged vehicles than usual in, though, including Mustangs, Transits, and F series trucks, so i'm kinda inclined to believe them. on the other hand, getting through El Mirage in a week sounds abnormally fast for that railyard, they normally take forever and a half to get anything through. it's possible that while these may have been in the unaffected rail cars, from what i've been told, vehicles in these trains are basically put in park and that's it, so they bumped other vehicles and were not damaged enough to worry about (some scratches on the bumpers, one had a small dent on the driver's door and driver's rear quarter panel), but again this is just a guess and i know all of nothing about the details of shipping vehicles by rail.

Given "derailment" is a wide range of possibilities, I'm sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle. If the cars bumped around because they were humped over a yard derail on accident at low speeds, or a rail section simply folded over (that happens sometimes), it would certainly create damage like that. I'm not privy to how the insurance in those sorts of cases are handled. I'd assume there's a threshold of damage that has to occur to the train or the affected freight to be completely written off.

 

[Sig556]

All I know about rail damage is this: Early 1987 my special order of a 1987 Monte Carlo SS was on a train going through Ohio and was derailed and my car went over a siding after waiting 6 weeks for delivery.

 

[KingKona]

My dealer got 2 Mustangs in today, both had front and rear damage, transporter drivers say it's because of the derailed train earlier in the month.
The damage happened to Mischievous Purple Mach 1 and EcoBoost

I fail to see a point in sharing this information.

 

[KeyLime]

No derailment here, but this doesn't buff out.

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