Aswold111

I really hate to say it, but I told you so, after countless attempts at the panel shop trying to fix there horrible miss match and different textured paint jobs, I had a rep from ford come and look at the car and aggree that it looked crap and the only solution was to get a new bonnet from the factory painted in there booths, once delivered and fitted I finally had satisfaction, apparently cannot match the robots, no matter how good you are, I wish you had listened to me and not the dreamers, but I just guess it depends on how fussy you are.

In my experience, live with it, they will never be able to match the factory paint, I had to get a new bonnet from the factory after months of abuse to the dealer

I have had the brake shudder issue from around 4000 km's after I bought my XR, I had the skim and shims and like all the rest, the shudder was back in a matter of Km's, Around Sept last year the dealer told me of new pads that were to be released that were supposed to correct the issue, and the release date was to be mid Oct, well after calls, I am still being told the release date will be soon, but unofficially the guy told me they are already released, but are only fitting them to cars that have had their brakes skimmed at least six times, there is a fault with the callipers that hold to pad too close to the rotor which is why thay heat up and warp, esspecially on hot conditions or heavy braking, which is why the problem comes back, even if you change the type of pad you use, apparently there had been very little issue with any BA made after 2003, so I can only assume they made a mod to the caliper in the manufacturing stage, It's like butting your head against the wall getting this fixed, and the time it takes getting you brakes skimmed really sh''ts me, Are there any suggestions on how to get ford to act before I run up my sixth skim??