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If I can get pics tomorrow or Monday I will. Popped in yesterday to the workshop and it's f*cking scary what they've done so far... nearly had a coronary when I saw it .[MENTION=23824]Nookie[/MENTION] god damnit... I don't really want to trust my guys with doing that :/ But it's the one big of my car that fks me off in the interior. :lol:
Inside of the car forward of the seats is gutted... just the frame of the dashboard and the steering column, which they've confirmed also has to be removed (as it runs through the frame of the dashboard), as well as the air-conditioning and most of the gubbins under the scuttle panel just beneath the windscreen (under the bonnet)...all got to be removed (for access to bolts that hold dashboard in place).
It's apparently 'structural' as well (acts as a sort of brace/tie-bar between the 'A' posts/bulkhead).
They've been working on it since Tuesday lunchtime and were 'hoping' they might get the dashboard out late today (so 3.5 days just to get this far).
Approximate cost to fix this (bearing in mind they charge £75 per hour for labour... although don't know how much they'll charge Ford Warranty... or how much they'll get paid) is likely, including the new RHD dashboard assembly (which is bloody huge and sitting in front of the car in a box the size of Biggie Smalls coffin) which had to be specially shipped from the US, is likely to be in the region of £5-6K.
It's utter madness, and if I'd known this was what was required, or what they were intending to do to fix such a stupidly small mark, I would have lived with it, and they could have perhaps just offered me a token gesture and I would have been happier than seeing what I've seen so far, but Ford never gave me the option.
Nuts that they don't want to underseal Mustangs under warranty (if they can get away with it) but will be shelling out this much to fix a mark the size of a fingernail.
They (or at least the mechanic that's working on it and the service desk guy) seem 100% confident all will be good in the end, but I'll be utterly amazed if I get the car back without replacement marks/damage elsewhere and something not working.
As the mechanic himself mentioned, the dashboard (and most of it's components) are only meant to be one time fit and normally stay in the car from the day it's built to the day it's crushed... so a lot of the clips and fastenings are not designed to be removed/replaced, which is really making things difficult.
I reckon (at current pace), and they didn't indicate otherwise when I asked, that it will be at least Thursday/Friday next week before I get the car back.
I'm really worried at the moment...
My only advice at this point [MENTION=20131]Manders Mustang[/MENTION] (with regards to you having a similar damage mark) is learn to live with it and love it... and for Christ's sake DON'T EVER contemplate asking Ford to fix it.
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