Wavy door panels

[0-60 freak]

Is there anybody else disgusted on how lumpy and wavy these door panels are, I mean Jesus 70k truck and they can't stamp the panel straight? When I point it out to my dealer they look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language, am I the only one that notices that it's a sack of potatoes?

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[Calabro]

Especially around the door handles. It’s not you bud. I agree 70k it should be next to perfect!


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[EricM]

I figured they'd get it right at some point, but they've been like that since 2015. I noticed it in the first 30 seconds I looked at them back in 2015.

You probably just made half the Gen II owners go outside to look at their trucks with this post.

 

[Supergumby5000]

Welcome to the 21st century. They don't build 'em like they used to. *Slaps hood*

Dont fret, every other automobile manufacturer has the same lackluster quality.

 

[mezger]

When I first seriously started looking for a Gen 2, I went by the local stealership with the $10000 markups to check on the colors IRL because they had ~10 Raps in stock.... because nobody was paying $83000 for a Raptor.

I noticed that every one looked like someone had shoved way too hard on all of the door handles, i.e. there is waviness around all of the door handles of all of the trucks. Mine has it as well. Dunno why Ford doesn't bother to get that right.

Hell, one of my front fenders has a visible casting ***.

 

[ddpt]

It's like looking at an aluminum can of Coors Light or whatever your favorite 12 ounce beverage in a can.

 

[smurfslayer]

It’s not new to 2015’s. Hell, I had this on my 2001 Lightning. Never noticed it until the guy who bought it from me found it. You had to really look hard to see it and it could only be observed with the naked eye from the rear, eyes at the height of the imperfection. He bought it anyway at the agreed upon price. She had never been crashed, wrecked, dented, scuffed, scraped, etc.

 

[EricM]

It’s not new to 2015’s. Hell, I had this on my 2001 Lightning. Never noticed it until the guy who bought it from me found it. You had to really look hard to see it and it could only be observed with the naked eye from the rear, eyes at the height of the imperfection. He bought it anyway at the agreed upon price. She had never been crashed, wrecked, dented, scuffed, scraped, etc.

My 2000 was stamped fine. Those trucks had the issue with the door skin flexing and it cracking right and the bottom rear of the window. I rarely ran it tight into the window channel and never got a crack luckily.

The 2015+ "handle waves" are not hard to see at all. I can spot the waves from 20 feet away doing 80 MPH on the highway.

 

[smurfslayer]

I’ve noticed some waves in washing / waxing before but never really paid much attention to it. I’m going to resist the temptation to go eyeball the panels now. the whole truck is covered in pollen courtesy of a weeks worth of 2000+ pollen count days.

 

[combatninja]

The cost of the truck is irrelevant. The Raptor costs $70K because it is a loaded up F-150 with a lot of development costs into the suspension. The door panels are the same ones from a $25,000 F-150 work truck that your local municipality would buy. They are built the same way at the end of the day. Look at any hopped-up version of a lower car (BMW M3, Alfa Gulia Quadfifoglio, Corvette ZR-1, etc). They all have those indicators that they are based on something much, much cheaper. You can't base your expectation for fit and finish on MSRP. There is more to it than that.