I know there are several door alignment threads and many have it far worse than I do. I just wanted some opinions on what they would do about my issue as seen in the photos below.

I noticed the issue the same day I purchased my truck. I pointed it out to my dealer who said they could fix that issue. I've had my truck for about a month and it didn't bother me all that much until I realized how often I have to repetitively tell my kids to re-shut their door (driver side rear only.) You certainly have to close it harder than the other 3 doors in order for the truck to recognize it's closed.

So, I recently took it back to the dealer and spoke with their auto body tech. He looked the 1/4" & 1/16' gaps over and said he hadn't seen a 2015 F150 with this issue yet. He was slightly unsure how he would resolve the issue as he said he hasn't worked on any 2015 F150's yet.

Would you try to have them fix it or just deal with it the way it is? Road noise is not an issue. Kid's just have to slam that one door a little harder to close it. Honestly, I'm not sure if the gaps are just a cosmetic issue or if it's the root problem to having to shut that one door harder than the others.

Note: The passenger side doors are perfectly aligned and both doors close nicely.

 

Depending on what the front door gap to the fender, it looks like the rear door only has to be moved forward a 1/16th" or so.

 

Any good body shop employee should be able to align your door(s) in a few minutes. Doesn't matter if yours is a 2015, the process is the same. You probably should go to another Ford dealer as your tech didn't answer correctly to your problem.

If you are mechanically minded at all, open the left rear door and take a fine marker and mark around the rear door upper and lower door hinges. Take a 13mm gear ratchet wrench and slightly loosen the 2 bolts in the hinges. Slide the door forward and then snug up bolts and see how it operates. If it is fine, tighten the bolts. If not adjust some more. You can always put the hinges back to where the black marks are. You have about 1/8" movement to move doors in/out, forward/back.

No, I wouldn't live with it-get it fixed. I did my own. Not worth a trip to the dealer, but every ones situation is different. Good luck.

 

Wait 6 months gives truck time to settle plus dealer to hopefully get more comfortable working on this issue

 

If you do this yourself, do not loosen all of the hinge bolts, all at once. If you do you will lose all alignment.

You loosen all of the upper hinge bolts and all but one of the lower hinge bolts.

Now rock the top of the door forward.

Then tighten one of the top hinge bolts, loosen the one tight bolt on the lower hinge and rock the bottom of the door forward.

Tighten one lower hinge bolt and check fit.

Repeat until the fit is correct.

If you use this process you won't screw up the height.

Note: I am referring to the hinge to body bolts.

 

I'm again proud of you halfshell, helpful, didn't chastise the guy with a tape measure..your making progress! Keep it up

 

They should include a Ford embossed ratchet set with each truck so the owner can perform final adjustments......

 

That rear gap is tight. It was a valid question.

 

This is mine after 3 trips to the dealer and 2-full days at the body shop. The back door is so close you can't slide a credit card it it. But you can see the inconsistency in the front door vs the cab so they just can't slide everything forward. But, according to the Ford engineer that came out, it's all to speck...I think he needs speck-ticles

 

I'm in 1/32 land. No wonder it takes 3-slams to shut the rear doors