Hi, Guest
Consider this a cautionary warning so far:
The rear trailing edges (down near the rear fender and bottom corner of the door) of the rear door frame (at the rocker) are prone to "road abrasion" from pavement dust, rocks, sand, gravel and anything else the front tires can grab from the pavement and fling rearward. I'm not sure how this affects the ZX3 but I can state that the ZX4/5 are definitely affected.
Additional info: the car's not quite 6 months old (to us) and has 7800KMs on it (hit that pulling up my street this afternoon). Road abrasion is starting to be apparent on the passenger side and is definitely evident (down to base) on the driver's side.
I called the Stockfish bodyhouse today and they're like, "no problem, bring it by whenever you want". So, I headed over at 3PM from work.
The bodyhouse manager inspects it and writes the workorder, which mirrored the last one for the sedan: prep and repaint affected areas, coat with protective 3M tape, rehang doors. Fine by me, it worked great on the sedan for well over a year.
I'm then told, as I expected, that it was covered under warranty for 3 years or 60K.
He then pauses, scratches his head and says that Ford actually only covers road abrasion for 1 year or 20K!!!
I didn't take him to task on it, arranged for a detail job at the same time (and for them to buff out that scratch on the rear pass. fender), thanked him and left. Appointment is for next Thursday.
Can anyone substantiate the 1 year "road abrasion" thing for the warranty? Ken?
If nothing by Monday, I'll call FoMoCoCan on Tuesday to inquire. I'm not impressed that "road abrasion" is skirted in the warranty if that's true.
I guess I should go get my warranty booklet out of the car, eh?
The rear trailing edges (down near the rear fender and bottom corner of the door) of the rear door frame (at the rocker) are prone to "road abrasion" from pavement dust, rocks, sand, gravel and anything else the front tires can grab from the pavement and fling rearward. I'm not sure how this affects the ZX3 but I can state that the ZX4/5 are definitely affected.
Additional info: the car's not quite 6 months old (to us) and has 7800KMs on it (hit that pulling up my street this afternoon). Road abrasion is starting to be apparent on the passenger side and is definitely evident (down to base) on the driver's side.
I called the Stockfish bodyhouse today and they're like, "no problem, bring it by whenever you want". So, I headed over at 3PM from work.
The bodyhouse manager inspects it and writes the workorder, which mirrored the last one for the sedan: prep and repaint affected areas, coat with protective 3M tape, rehang doors. Fine by me, it worked great on the sedan for well over a year.
I'm then told, as I expected, that it was covered under warranty for 3 years or 60K.
He then pauses, scratches his head and says that Ford actually only covers road abrasion for 1 year or 20K!!!
I didn't take him to task on it, arranged for a detail job at the same time (and for them to buff out that scratch on the rear pass. fender), thanked him and left. Appointment is for next Thursday.
Can anyone substantiate the 1 year "road abrasion" thing for the warranty? Ken?
If nothing by Monday, I'll call FoMoCoCan on Tuesday to inquire. I'm not impressed that "road abrasion" is skirted in the warranty if that's true.
I guess I should go get my warranty booklet out of the car, eh?
Daily driver 1: 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport "S"
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.