Boogers in the Factory Paint
11-13-2011, 10:50 PM
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Boogers in the Factory Paint
My F150 FX4 is now 5 weeks old. Is that a birthday
After having a crazy difficulty with overspray when having a bed liner applied, I had to clay bar the whole truck. Followed that up with Griot's carnauba wax. Took me all weekend but the truck looks great
While working on the truck there were an unbelievable number of paint boogers. I'm not talking minor stuff here. Some of these spots look like a lint ball trapped in the paint with the largest two being about half the size of a BB. It's very clear they were either part of the paint from lack of filtering when sprayed or somehow fell into the paint while being sprayed. There are many different sizes and locations of these boogers; around 12-15 of them total.
I've never seen a factory paint job with these boogers before. The '99 F150 I traded in didn't have a single one. My wife's Subaru doesn't have a single booger.
It just seems odd. Does anyone else have these things on their F150?
After having a crazy difficulty with overspray when having a bed liner applied, I had to clay bar the whole truck. Followed that up with Griot's carnauba wax. Took me all weekend but the truck looks great
While working on the truck there were an unbelievable number of paint boogers. I'm not talking minor stuff here. Some of these spots look like a lint ball trapped in the paint with the largest two being about half the size of a BB. It's very clear they were either part of the paint from lack of filtering when sprayed or somehow fell into the paint while being sprayed. There are many different sizes and locations of these boogers; around 12-15 of them total.
I've never seen a factory paint job with these boogers before. The '99 F150 I traded in didn't have a single one. My wife's Subaru doesn't have a single booger.
It just seems odd. Does anyone else have these things on their F150?
11-13-2011, 11:34 PM
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My F150 FX4 is now 5 weeks old. Is that a birthday
After having a crazy difficulty with overspray when having a bed liner applied, I had to clay bar the whole truck. Followed that up with Griot's carnauba wax. Took me all weekend but the truck looks great
While working on the truck there were an unbelievable number of paint boogers. I'm not talking minor stuff here. Some of these spots look like a lint ball trapped in the paint with the largest two being about half the size of a BB. It's very clear they were either part of the paint from lack of filtering when sprayed or somehow fell into the paint while being sprayed. There are many different sizes and locations of these boogers; around 12-15 of them total.
I've never seen a factory paint job with these boogers before. The '99 F150 I traded in didn't have a single one. My wife's Subaru doesn't have a single booger.
It just seems odd. Does anyone else have these things on their F150?
After having a crazy difficulty with overspray when having a bed liner applied, I had to clay bar the whole truck. Followed that up with Griot's carnauba wax. Took me all weekend but the truck looks great
While working on the truck there were an unbelievable number of paint boogers. I'm not talking minor stuff here. Some of these spots look like a lint ball trapped in the paint with the largest two being about half the size of a BB. It's very clear they were either part of the paint from lack of filtering when sprayed or somehow fell into the paint while being sprayed. There are many different sizes and locations of these boogers; around 12-15 of them total.
I've never seen a factory paint job with these boogers before. The '99 F150 I traded in didn't have a single one. My wife's Subaru doesn't have a single booger.
It just seems odd. Does anyone else have these things on their F150?
take it back and have it fixed....
11-14-2011, 04:39 PM
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I have 5 or 6 of them too. My '04 was flawless but the '11 is pretty jacked. I am really unimpressed so far with the quality of the paint job. As a matter of fact my dealer is working with Ford on a couple of the issues for warranty.
I can post them if you like. They are not "boogers" so I don't want to hijack your thread.
I can post them if you like. They are not "boogers" so I don't want to hijack your thread.
11-14-2011, 04:58 PM
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Sucks to have any imperfections in a new paint job. However there is no way I would have it fixed. The repair would probably be worse than the flaw or they would bark something else up in the process. I do speak from experience
11-14-2011, 05:09 PM
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Same issues here.. They wanted to pull the front windshield to fix my a pillar and I said no way... That's only one of the many problem areas.. Got a free extended warranty out of it..
