eye.surgeon

According to reliable sources there may be a delay in the new 2015 F150 of several weeks due to quality issues in the new aluminium body panels on pre-production models.

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/12/11/n...-panel-issues/

Toddman38

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A vehicle in its first year of redesign delayed.... Never heard of that before, lol!

Wanted33

If they're lucky it won't turn out to be the 1983 Corvette syndrome.


Sorry, a lot of you are too young to know this one. GM delayed the debut of the C4 Corvette so long they skipped 1983 altogether, and released it in 1984. It was still a piece of crap.

Butters_33

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LOL, wouldn't it be something if the current generation F-150 ended up carrying over into a 2015 model?

BlackToothFX4

^ would defiantly trade my 13 in for it if that were the case

dkushner

Interesting quote from the original article at http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/201...uminum-issues/

"Ford will have already blown their Memorial Day launch target, with the new F-150 said to be late availability in 2014, with Ford’s Kansas City plant said to be cranking out current generation trucks, which will now feature a frame that is one full gauge thinner on “non-tow” models."

eye.surgeon

Thank-you EPA.

Truck owner

this is what happens when you try to make your truck panels even more paper thin. I see the Atlas rolling down the road and every dip/bump/pothole the truck metal ripples. This is gonna be real interesting,,this is what you get when you try to shed 750lbs from the F150..

KingRanch4Life

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Is it gonna look like this?

XtraLargeTall

Sounds like a supplier issue.

Getting quite tired of all of the "the world is gonna end" talk about this pickup. Ford has a ton at stake here, I'm sure they won't screw it up...