I Love America despite the fact we allow Swoop to live here.
I'm hoping the guy was joking. Poor panel alignment to what standards? What is "rusting" already? It's probably just on the surface, like ANY non-treated/painted or coated bare steel will do; not just "American Steel".
I don't like this thread already with the American Bashing. My father worked for Ford for over 30 years and was and still IS a member of the UAW. Until his medical retirement, I never knew the man because he was ALWAYS at work, Fridays, Weekends, 12-16-18 hours a day. He would sleep in the parking lot in his car and go right back to work.
Screw your comment on "Inspected on a Friday..." It should have been this instead: "Damn, I should have looked over the ******* truck better before dropping $50,000 on it."
That, sir, is YOUR fault.
What's wrong with you? I am part of a union and I'm not American bashing or American steel bashing. As I mentioned I was just bitching about my experience so far with my raptor. You're more pissy than my psycho ex with PMDD - look it up, I may have just diagnosed you at no charge and you're welcome. They have medication that might help you.
Our family has owned many American vehicles and they have all had many issues and thus the change to more reliable car manufacturers. If I didn't think Ford could make a good car now I wouldn't have bought this truck...even though this "American" truck has parts built in Mexico maybe other countries as well.
I used to roll in a buick century and a chevy astro van so unless your father was working for buick in the 80's or chevy in the 90's, he's never worked on a car that I own or drive so no offense to him.
I'm sorry you have abandonment and/or father issues. Maybe he didn't enjoy being around you or your family...might be the reason he slept in the car and tried to lose himself in his work. What do I know? Sorry he didn't love you enough, but I believe this forum focuses more on rants/raves and other things pertaining to the Ford Raptor and not issues you're needing to work out in therapy. There is no denying that the Raptor is an awesome truck by the way, excluding the manufacturing issues which affect ALL manufacturers to some extent. But especially frustrating as it's the only Ford I've had personal experience with.
As mentioned in the original post I WANT to be HAPPY with FORD, but even our shitbox GM cars never had engine service lights come on until I burned through a few tanks of fuel at least. I'm still running on the gas the dealer filled it with.
In regards to you telling me that I should have inspected the truck better; you're right, it is my fault. I should have bought an OBD scanner for a new car purchase and checked for codes that were non existent at the time. I should have been able to predict the service light coming on, blah, blah, blah. In regards to the body panel, I pointed it out to the dealer at delivery and they told me they would get something lined up for me when I came in to get my plates and take care of it then. The flare panel on the driver side hangs over the edge of the bumper and the passenger side panel lines up inside the bumper edge, with a gap large enough to fit my finger between the grill and the headlight housing. If you were interested. I originally though it was the hood.
So with that said, all I was trying to do was see if anybody knew something quick and easy to check that might be the source of the service engine light so I wouldn't have to take it in. I'm hoping it's just a loose connector. Otherwise I guess I'll keep my bitching to myself as people here are waaaaaayyy to sensitive. Maybe the Z is better as swoop was banned and isn't there anymore.
Oh before I forget, swoop, how's your truck doing with the clunk? Seems like your rear end has some issues. Would that be something that is Ford's fault or yours? Why is it that everything that is wrong with MY truck is my fault and not Ford's. Just curious as you did post that you had issues at the Z. If you need remind yourself what you said: "raptor*forum*z.com/showthread.php?t=10846" copy, paste and remove the *'s.
Sorry for my rant but swoop is being an ass....but I guess that was my fault for posting. Whatever.
Sorry for whatever errors I have here...I wrote so much I don't even want to review and edit it. Cheers.