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Old 01-04-2014, 11:31 PM
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Andddd it cut my Raptor bedside Decal a bit but not to much. Was wondering if anyone knew if this was something under the warranty as if the thing wasn't on there good enough. I mean the car wash didn't even have a really good pressure also so yeah. Anyone ever deal with this kinda thing??
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The owners manual states to not use automatic car washes due to the width and do not apply any high pressure water to the edges of the graphic decals. Damage through a car wash is not covered under warranty according to the manual but could depend how your dealer is. For time sakes, I usually use auto's myself on my existing KR but guess I am going to have to get used to not using those anymore when I get my Raptor. They say a Raptor looks better real dirty anyways. :-)
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I would say for the winter just find a do it your self wash...I turn my outside water off in the winter..
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Thanks for not bashing me lol. Yeah made the mistake but def. won't do it again. Yeah they do look good dirty but when taking the wife out I wana be clean. Il take a pic. In a bit. And post it. I have OCD so this little thing might not be much to some people but for me I notice everything lol
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That's actually worse than I would have thought. That would drive me nuts. Maybe a vinyl shop can do a repair on it, worth checking out.
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Yeah I would try decal/wrap business, the dealership will be expensive. Oddly enough one of my friends was dead set on a raptor until he found it was too wide for a car wash. I didn't know people used those cheap things on nice vehicles.
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Oh the one here is super big truck friendly. Meaning wide and like 8ft tall so I feet pretty good in there but for some reason it was weirdly on stupid high pressure. Never did it before and bam. The clerk got an *** chewing on how ima sue him and find and bang his wife and he went in to do some **** for the pressure and I took off. I got a codes for free washes but I was just bluffing on the hole sueing him tho, not the banging tho
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So they. Can like patch it up and ****? Really never been in one of these shops before
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Originally Posted by 2010_FX2_Mondo
Thanks for not bashing me lol. Yeah made the mistake but def. won't do it again. Yeah they do look good dirty but when taking the wife out I wana be clean. Il take a pic. In a bit. And post it. I have OCD so this little thing might not be much to some people but for me I notice everything lol
The wife? You just made a thread about breaking in the raptor with head from some elementary teacher? Lol what
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