There's "rust"... and then there's "ROT".Also. I took pictures of the undercarriage. Pumpkin doesn’t look too bad. But not the end of the axle. Look at this:
Well, it looks like our trucks were sitting together In a Dearborn parking lot. Mine was built 1/21 and it arrived yesterday. Same deal with the windshield, dealer won’t let it off the lot till it’s fixed early next week. Well, I guess it gives them a little time to fix the f#%@*$g rust on the rear end!
This is getting out hand! We are truck brothers for sure, same color, lariat sport, PowerBoost. Dont let them get away without fixing the rust!Well, it looks like our trucks were sitting together In a Dearborn parking lot. Mine was built 1/21 and it arrived yesterday. Same deal with the windshield, dealer won’t let it off the lot till it’s fixed early next week. Well, I guess it gives them a little time to fix the f#%@*$g rust on the rear end!
For the rust I can see wanting to do it yourself, and I likely will, but if the dealer can do it before I buy it professionally, I will go with that. With the windshield I was told they are breaking the windshields when taking them out so they need a windshield on hand everytime. Also there is something with the leadfoot paint color that needs to happen as well because of the adhesive used.
Mine was for the most part ok. There was a little rust string but the dealer had it done. Just wanting on time to see if they did a good job. I was wondering if the Dearborn plant had a flood with their parking lot full of winter salt! If you can find anyone that lives in that area, they may be able to help with reasoning for all the rust on so many trucks.
I get it that the dealer doesn’t want to put man hours into a job Ford won’t pay them for, but that is just garbage under normal circumstances and worse given everything you’ve put up with thus far. I’d tell the salesman to put the sales manager on the phone as he clearly got the short stick having to make that call. If it was so normal, why is this the first time they’ve tried to sell new vehicles with it. Love my truck but Ford isn’t helping themselves trying to pretend the rust issue just isn’t an issue. I’m fixing mine myself simply because it is too much hassle and time to work with my dealership on the issue. Given they have your truck and time to burn with it, would be a gesture of good will if nothing else to sell you a visibly rust free vehicle at this point. We may all have to start the #RustedNewF-150 trending to get Ford to realize they can’t Jedi mind trick this issue away.
I 100% agree with you. They had a little bad press right at the beginning of #rustgate but things have quieted down. Some people will say “deal with it, it’s just a bit of surface rust”. Well I’m sorry. I live in MN. King of salty roads. A little surface rust turns into degraded metal quickly. Seems unacceptable to me that they can even call it surface rust with all the bubbling going on.
Is it just me, or does that brake line look a little chewed up?!?!Also. I took pictures of the undercarriage. Pumpkin doesn’t look too bad. But not the end of the axle. Look at this:
