I've heard of other people asking for no prep too, and I'm curious as to why? I've only bought one new vehicle previously, so I'd like to understand the reasoning behind not having the dealer prep the vehicle.
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For me, the last dealer I used absolutely demolished my 2016 Limited during their "cleanup/prep." Plus is am VERY picky.
All F-150s have a little white sticker on the bottom LH corner of the back glass, the $8 an hour bottom of the totem pole bonehead scraped that sticker off with a RAZOR BLADE. Scratched the heck out of the back glass. Then, they managed to knock a can of glass cleaner over on the hood and scratch it, run a vacuum across the leather seats and scratched them all up, and finally installed the radio antenna with pliers instead of a proper wrench and scuffed all the paint off the antenna. Not to mention swirl marks, etc.
I learned my lesson. I told the salesman for my Raptor absolutely ZERO prep. He said they'd take it out of transport mode and that was it. Mine still had all the plastic on the outside, plastic all over the interior, plastic over the door sill sticker plates, all the factory paperwork (which was very interesting), a VEHICLE COMPLETE sign, the pickup slip from the transporter, etc etc.
All the Dearborn trucks arrive NASTY. The truck was filthy. This is my 5th Raptor and they all arrive like this. Covered in that white salt spray, dirt, road grime, etc.
It's all cleaned up now and ready to go though!
** A couple of things I noticed (which Im sure have already been covered)
- It does have a matching spare tire/wheel
- Has really nice FORD PERFORMANCE door sill kick plates
- Back doors also have carbon fiber. Well worth the money for the CF package.
- Ford Performance logo incorporated into the engine cover.
- Nice to finally be able to pull the front camera up on demand with the camera button. Hated that on the dino Raptors.
- Most importantly, Avalanche = GREY. Pics show that color all over the place. Some look white, some look light grey. THE COLOR IS GREY.
- Graphics are really nice. Incorporate a nice silver outline and very nice gradient shading on them.
- Hood is VERY HEAVY.
- AGM battery.