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[Critical Habitat]

Maybe the XLT also has the 3.0 twin turbo?

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[LFRR13]

OMG how in the hell did that make it through QC. That’s amazing.

That's wild considering my Raptor has been sitting in QC for 2 weeks.

 

[tbalt14]

That's wild considering my Raptor has been sitting in QC for 2 weeks.

It probably has the cloth rear seat.

 

[JimJa]

Rust. There is surface rust and then there is rust. The OP's issue (and others that are similar) is more significant than surface rust. Very likely the parts sat outside for a period, during the strike perhaps? The fix should be cheap and easy - good underbody water spray followed by a soda or dry ice blast. Or even laser and finished with a zinc based paint spray.

Wrong seat. There are thousands of parts in a vehicle, screw ups are bound to happen. It's actually surprising there aren't more. I toured a Ford truck plant years ago because the plant manager was a Naval reservist and at the time I was in the Navy. I asked him when parts were ordered by Ford for a given build -. when the order is placed. The line workers install what is provided to them from a "sub line," whatever part is there. Think about where the piece or part is made and it's timing .... The line can't be stopped (at $100K/minute) so the part is installed. Some person installed the wrong cover on that seat frame and the seat was put in the que. When it came down the sub line it was installed. It happens and, given the thousands of combinations available for each vehicle, the build process is a dance of thousands of pieces. They have to come together at EXACTLY the right time. Sucks when it's your vehicle and it's not what you ordered.

 

[CACTUSGREYFX4]

Rust. There is surface rust and then there is rust. The OP's issue (and others that are similar) is more significant than surface rust. Very likely the parts sat outside for a period, during the strike perhaps? The fix should be cheap and easy - good underbody water spray followed by a soda or dry ice blast. Or even laser and finished with a zinc based paint spray.

Wrong seat. There are thousands of parts in a vehicle, screw ups are bound to happen. It's actually surprising there aren't more. I toured a Ford truck plant years ago because the plant manager was a Naval reservist and at the time I was in the Navy. I asked him when parts were ordered by Ford for a given build -. when the order is placed. The line workers install what is provided to them from a "sub line," whatever part is there. Think about where the piece or part is made and it's timing .... The line can't be stopped (at $100K/minute) so the part is installed. Some person installed the wrong cover on that seat frame and the seat was put in the que. When it came down the sub line it was installed. It happens and, given the thousands of combinations available for each vehicle, the build process is a dance of thousands of pieces. They have to come together at EXACTLY the right time. Sucks when it's your vehicle and it's not what you ordered.

Yes but QC should have picked it up and they didn't so what's that say about QC.

 

[Danner]

Rust. There is surface rust and then there is rust. The OP's issue (and others that are similar) is more significant than surface rust. Very likely the parts sat outside for a period, during the strike perhaps? The fix should be cheap and easy - good underbody water spray followed by a soda or dry ice blast. Or even laser and finished with a zinc based paint spray.

Wrong seat. There are thousands of parts in a vehicle, screw ups are bound to happen. It's actually surprising there aren't more. I toured a Ford truck plant years ago because the plant manager was a Naval reservist and at the time I was in the Navy. I asked him when parts were ordered by Ford for a given build -. when the order is placed. The line workers install what is provided to them from a "sub line," whatever part is there. Think about where the piece or part is made and it's timing .... The line can't be stopped (at $100K/minute) so the part is installed. Some person installed the wrong cover on that seat frame and the seat was put in the que. When it came down the sub line it was installed. It happens and, given the thousands of combinations available for each vehicle, the build process is a dance of thousands of pieces. They have to come together at EXACTLY the right time. Sucks when it's your vehicle and it's not what you ordered.

I wish ford would do this fix for me being 73 makes it hard crawling under my new Ranger.

 

[HighDesertRanger]

Maybe the XLT also has the 3.0 twin turbo?

Now THAT I would buy!!!

 

[HighDesertRanger]

We just got this one in. XLT 2wd. Almost no rust at all.

 

[Wags]

We just got this one in. XLT 2wd. Almost no rust at all.

any idea when is was built?

 

[Danner]

We just got this one in. XLT 2wd. Almost no rust at all.

I tried to clean the rust off mine only did a foot in 2 hours.

 

[HighDesertRanger]

any idea when is was built?

3/8/24

 

[19rngr]

Noticed some Broncos were in the same boat. Makes sense since both vehicles are produced at MAP.

 

[24'Ranger]

I took ownership of a 24 XLT with rust. I'm thinking I will own this truck for 3-5 years and figured it will likely not affect me. Blend date is 1/22.

PS, there's also rust behind the glove box where the cabin air filter is.

 

[Danner]

I took ownership of a 24 XLT with rust. I'm thinking I will own this truck for 3-5 years and figured it will likely not affect me. Blend date is 1/22.

PS, there's also rust behind the glove box where the cabin air filter is.

Mine was built 1/24/24 I will check behind my cabin filter.Looks like they must have washed the salt off before you got it.

 

[CACTUSGREYFX4]

Checked underneath and no rust.

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