the little hinge on the right side of mine came unattached... who makes a plastic hinge anyway?

 

sold my '97 a few weeks ago and the door was just as good as new. and was used on a somewhat regular basis.

 

Mine is just fine, however, in my wildest dreams will I ever figure out what happened to the plastic molding below the "threshold" on the passenger door! It just got up and went! I traced my tracks, to no avail, from the previous day when I noticed it missing. ennis

 

I think it is the guys at the factory because I live in Kansas City MO like 5 minutes away from the plant where they make the F-150's. A lot of my neighboors work there and they g to work drunk and half asleep one of them just got fired for going to lunch coming back drunk and hit a brand new truck. What kind of workers are those???????

 

If it worked when you bought the truck then it was not the peaple putting it in. Inless you have a screw then your truck might not have ben made in kc. There are several plants that make the f-150. Cesar58 you dont know what your talking about. You act like all the workers do that. They dont. Some do and its not just the Ford plants. That happens in every car plant and alot of blue collar jobs. Hell i know some white collar workers that have drank while at work.

 

I know what I'm talking about and believe me my truck was built in KC I have a sticker on the windshild.

 

I didnt mean just yor truck and if you dont work in the plant then your talking out your ***. Most of the peaple there bust *** all day long and dont drink. Im one of them. What you think all of them do that? There are always bad seeds everywhere and no it wasnt the peaple installing the little door on the ashtray. Its the design.That truck gets checked several times before it even goes out the door. Not saying that things dont slip buy couse they do but the doors breaking are not the factory workers fault. As a matter of fact i think the doors are put on at another place. Im not sure but i will look tomarrow. The dashes are already made except for the instrument cluster and radio/air control ****.

 

Oh come on Ceaser,if you put on that little door day in and day out you would drink too. Mine is open 100% of the time cause i have phone or radar detector or god only knows what else plugged into it all the time.

 

Mine was broken when I bought the truck new. I had the dealer fix it as part of the deal.

 

To all those who are complaining about things breaking under warranty -- This is what the warranty is for !! If you don't complain about things breaking, how the hell do you think Ford will know they are making defective stuff?? Trust me they do not know by osmosis. Please have this breaking stuff fixed under warranty. If you don't , you have yourself (and Ford) to thank for lousy quality !!!

 

I bought my 97 used and the door was broken. The cigarette lighter socket was also broken away from its plastic mount. I simply attributed it to a previos owner being a bit too agressive at first.

But after looking at it I realized it is a cheap set-up.

In my case the pin on the left side had broken off. I studied it some and made a fix by doing the following.

I took the door out and measured (by eyeball) the size of the receiving hole. I then found a self tapping screw that had a head size slightly smaller than that hole with a shaft that was small enough to screw into the diameter of the broken off hinge piece. I then took the door and filed down the broken off tab smooth. I took a small drill bit and drilled a hole in the center of that newly flushed up piece of plastic now.

Then I screwed the screw into that hole and stopped at the approximate place it looked like it needed to be. The idea was the head will now rest in the hole that the broken off plastic part used to ride in. I got the fit right in 2 tries. Now it hangs as it should. To fix the closing/latching part, I cut a small piece of velcro and fit it to the door and the receiver part of the dash where the door pushes up into.

Hey it ain't factory, but it opens and closes and stays put and apparently last longer than the original now. I'm not a smoker so the hell with the lighter. I just stuffed it back up out of the way. I only need the power jack anyway.

Yes it is a cheap set-up. Yes it can easily be done better. No I am not pleased that Ford makes such cheap stuff.

As to the workers building them. Look I think most workers have pride in what they do. Don't let a sensational bad example be your guide to overall pride in workmanship. They are simply installing poorly engineered pieces in most cases.

**Begin personal rant**

I worked the Shuttle program here in Florida. In fact that is what got me here to Florida. You do NOT want to know the type things that some of the workers are up to that maintain the shuttle. To top it off, I have watched them come to work drunk and they can actually be "protected" by management in some cases. Who ya know has a LOT to do with how you win in the Space Program. These are merely 2 examples of many. I personally watched a guy talking to little voices in his head. I bring it up to management as a potential issue and they were not only aware of it, they simply said make sure he doesn't do anything dangerous. I said "Like working on flight hardware?" They said no like discussing that he might kill someone or something like that.

Doesn't mean that the shuttle isn't an awesome thing. Doesn't mean that there aren't good workers on the program. I simply left the program in disgust of what I saw happening. How about blatant use of cocaine by Quality Inspectors. How about drunk driving by director level management. Including striking pedestrians. They still work there and most likely have gotten promoted in time. Meanwhile the good workers have to suffer for the bad deeds of others.

No thanks. I'll flip burgers before I condone any of these activities.

**End personal rant now**

 

I hope mine never goes limp