Actually Phil it is the rear window. So either the window seal, 3rd brake light or the antenna has to be causing it. I’m guessing they will have my truck another week when this is done.
Hi Cindy,
Hi Troy,My Ranger came with a bunch of paint problems too. There was a chip in the front bumper, a bare spot on the bottom of one of the passenger doors, and a bunch of dirt/debris in the paint especially on the passenger's side of the box. Ford's paint quality flat out sucks. But what sucks worse is that to correct all of these issues, the truck has to be disassembled and re painted, which I really don't want. Guess I'll be living with crap paint on my Ranger
So as a follow up, there is a blurb in the latest AAH where Ford paid some retirees very well to come in and help get the Explorer production back on track:
I have thought about doing this with my Ranger also. There are chunks of crap in the paint ALL over the truck. I wonder if I could get Ford to repaint the whole thing to fix them, plus fix up all the rock chips on it after 1 year of driving. I paid extra for the white platinum paint and the quality is still lacking pretty badly.The paint on the Ford Ranger is a disaster. My brand new Ranger came with not less than 65 dust grains in the paint. The whole car was painted dirty resulting in grains all over the car.
Ford Sweden wanted to repaint the whole car but I´m asking for exchange to a flawless vehicle .
We will see where this story will end. The reseller is very customer friendly so I hope the new car will not have this issue.
The problem seems to be wide spread all over. Ford plant manager really have to do something NOW. They can´t deliver cars with bad paint.
I have marked out the grains to make it easier to locate them on the pictures.
Yes, I have the same problem with paint coming off in small round specs all around the truck, took it in and have a loaner. They have to fix the dent in my door anyway and have scratches all around the truck, just a bad paint job, called ford corporation and got a customer service rep, she emailed me with a case number, so gave it to the dealership today, where I bought it. Even the mechanic said it was coming off, told them I only have 4057 miles, bought it Dec 14 2019 and do not drive it much and have a cover with a soft interior to protect it, I mean a lot of round specs that you can see all around the truck, we will see. I do love my 2019 Ford Ranger XLT, drove a 2003 for ten+ years and loved it.I purchased my 2019 Ranger Crew Cab on 7-25. Thought I did a good job inspecting it at this time. 7-30 I washed it and noticed that there were clumps of clear coat on the roof. The closer I looked I also noticed several areas that had swirls and scratches in the paint down to the metal that had been clear coated over.
First available dealer appointment was on 8-7. They looked at it and couldn’t see anything so they asked me to wash it again and bring it back the next day. The next day they were able to see the defects and even noticed some small dents under the globs of clear coat. They took pictures but of course it is hard to see. They then sent me back to the dealer I purchased from which is over 50 miles from my house.
The second dealer could see the defects and sent me to the body shop.
The body shop took photos but you couldn’t really see the defects. So at this point 7 different people have seen the defects with the naked eye but are having issues capturing it on camera.
Work order sent to Ford for request to fix it, denied. I took more pictures myself and denied again. Took back to body shop and the took more pictures, again it was denied.
I called Ford Customer Service and could barely understand the lady and kept getting passed around. After 1 hour and 38 minutes on the phone was told to submit again.
This time we inundated them with photos and I even wrote an email about the whole situation.
On 10-21 it is finally in the shop for paint but they won’t fix the dents so I am out of pocket $150 for that. But I plan to keep trying to get Ford to reimburse me for that.
I was given a loaner truck and the hood doesn’t even line up.
On the attached photos the Grey is mine and the white is the loaner. Come on FORD your QC Department needs to their job.
