production line photos

bullitt640 said:

I think the reason that they didn't paint under the hood is that the sound deadening liner they put on the hood covers it anyway. They don't plan ahead for those of us that have all these mods in mind.

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I mentioned this to my brother. He manages the Body Shop at my Father's Ford dealership. He said that's nothing new and that Ford hasn't painted the underside of a hood with a hoodliner in 15-20 years.

He went on to say look at the door jams in new cars and you'll see very thin paint. A "dusting" he called it. So when you take delivery, check the paint in all the jam areas. Hood, trunk and doors. Refuse delivery until it's right. You're paying a lot of money for something and it should be painted right. Next to a home and maybe a college education an automobile purchase is one the largest outlays of cash a person has.

In the second picture, I bet no one noticed that skinny person is a gal. Yep look at the bra linning. Fooled me the first 3 times looking through this thread, but thats a chic for sure.

And about the door jams having only a dust of paint on it, is it easily noticable? Do you see the metal behind it or vagueness in color? Can you actually have them repaint your car because of a few specific areas you find uncomforting for what you paid, while every car in that lineup has been made that way? Also would they repaint the whole car or just those areas, because sometimes the distortion can be seen between areas that have been painted at different occurences.

Oh and thanks for the pictures. I also never seen a modern assembly line of cars except in commercials, where everything is clean and shiny.

Detonate said:

And about the door jams having only a dust of paint on it, is it easily noticable? Do you see the metal behind it or vagueness in color? Can you actually have them repaint your car because of a few specific areas you find uncomforting for what you paid, while every car in that lineup has been made that way? Also would they repaint the whole car or just those areas, because sometimes the distortion can be seen between areas that have been painted at different occurences.

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It's hard to explain, but you can just see it. Color fades funny and sometimes you can see the faint wispers of primer shining through. They would only paint the jams. Any half way competent paint shop can blend the paint without making it noticable it was painted. No way they'd paint the whole car.

EDIT: Check the bottoms of the doors too.

You can refuse delivery. They'll try telling you you have to accept it. Stand you're ground. Get lawyer and let them know you're getting a lawyer....and do get a lawyer. Don't just threaten....follow through.

This is a great example of why I don't sign anything until I see what I'm getting.

tjm73 said:

It's hard to explain, but you can just see it. Color fades funny and sometimes you can see the faint wispers of primer shining through. They would only paint the jams. Any half way competent paint shop can blend the paint without making it noticable it was painted. No way they'd paint the whole car.

EDIT: Check the bottoms of the doors too.

You can refuse delivery. They'll try telling you you have to accept it. Stand you're ground. Get lawyer and let them know you're getting a lawyer....and do get a lawyer. Don't just threaten....follow through.

This is a great example of why I don't sign anything until I see what I'm getting.

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And in the meantime they will sell the car to someone else. BTW, I have 2001 Mustang and I have worked on my door hinges for sqeeks and the paint there is just as lusterous as the rest of the car.

Hey, That place looks familiar "probably because i just got done working ten hours there"