I am a new member to the forum and found it an excellent resource prior to my puchase of a 2001 SuperCrew 4X4 Lariat 2 weeks ago. I love the truck but when I picked it up I found a small defect in the paint on the right rear panel. The defect is like a pock mark half the size of a pencil erasor. Ford has said the repair will require a repaint of the area, and they will make me happy. The defect is hard to spot unless you know it is there. My question is should I trust them to re-paint the rear panel of my new truck, or should I try an get some other compensation (Spray in liner, mud flaps etc.). I appreciate any advise or suggestions.

 

They will make you happy. Believe that when you see it. It took us 8 months to finally get Ford to repair chipped paint on our fender. The chips are gone, but now it has really nice orange peel in the fender. Take my word for it. If it don't look that bad, don't mess with it. Ford has a way of screwing up more that what they are fixing.

 

I agree with 2X150! If the paint defect is not that bad, I'd stick with the factory paint. The baked on finish can never be duplicated (in my opinion). I have a couple of ittle paint defects on my F150, but you learn to live with them.

 

I run a paint shop here in Ontario, we don't paint vehicles but are custom coaters to the electonics, military and aerospace industry, as well as cusom automotive.

So I do have some ideas for you guys.

If there is a problem with the paint, and it gets repainted it should not orange peel, here are the causes of orange peel and how to correct it.

1. Too much paint was applied
2. Fender was not sanded down far enough
3. Primer not applied

You said a baked finish?? Better not be, they should be using a 2 component urethane finish. Such as the automotive products from Sherwin Williams, Dupont and others that we apply,

I have had an autobody specialist repaint chips several times for me, and never once has it orange peeled.

A urethane finish can be air dried and is just as hard as a baked finish after a couple days.

Get a new autobody speicalist, and make sure they are using a urethane, they have to be though, espeically if it is a color match, so I have no idea what the hell they did, my best guess is that there is too much paint on there and it wasn't prep'd properly.

Heslin.

 

Well I was not happy at all to see the orange peel. Coming from a dealer I thought they would do a better job. Like I said, it took 8 months and 7 trips to the paint dept. to get them to do that. Each time I took it back they fu*ked something else up on it. Keep telling us to bring it back and they would fix it. Yeah right. Bad thing about the whole deal is, each time We would bring it back and tell them what We were told was done the last time the body shop manager would stand there and scream at us" no that was never done to this truck". Or the one that killed me was,"I have never seen this truck before in my life". B.S So after 8 months of this crap we just took the truck after they painted the fender and said screw it .We were done messing with them. When the survey came, it was my turn. LOL 2 months later I got a call from Ford asking me about our deal. Never heard anything else from them. Oh well that's how it goes.

 

I wouldn't have been too happy either, there is no excuse for orange peel, if it was there, they sshould have sanded it down and done it over like any proffesional painter.

I know my dealer contracts the body work out.

Heslin.

 

Orange peel is usually from spraying the paint "too dry". Too wet and it runs..... I have done both... there is a fine line between the two, painting it wet enough for it to have a mirror finish yet not running...