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Warped front bumper?

I don't understand, take it to your local dealer, show them, see what they say. Your selling dealer has absolutely nothing to do with your truck. They sold it, there is literally no reason for you to even speak with them, who cares if they don't like it / claim it as their own. They have zero skin in the game, and why would you care anyways, it's 200 miles away lol.
 
Yillbs said:
I don't understand, take it to your local dealer, show them, see what they say. Your selling dealer has absolutely nothing to do with your truck. They sold it, there is literally no reason for you to even speak with them, who cares if they don't like it / claim it as their own. They have zero skin in the game, and why would you care anyways, it's 200 miles away lol.
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This is my first vehicle with a warranty - my mistake of assuming the selling dealer had some sort of foot up on other dealers for my specific truck.
My bad and didnt mean to irritate anyone by asking. Still learning who can take care of what
 
SWFL_Fisherman said:
This is my first vehicle with a warranty - my mistake of assuming the selling dealer had some sort of foot up on other dealers for my specific truck.
My bad and didnt mean to irritate anyone by asking. Still learning who can take care of what
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From everything i have experienced there are 2 kinds of dealers, ones who only care about the sale and dont offer much help for service and ones who are there for you every step of the way... i will always use the dealer i bought my truck from for sales as the price is the best around buy a lot but i would never deal with them for service my loca dealer is much better for that.... one can usually tell by the dealership garage size the small ones are more just sales and the ones with bigger shops are service oriented.... just some food for thought
 
SWFL_Fisherman said:
Got word from the dealer I purchased the truck from...
Salesmans answer was roughly the following -
"asked the warranty manager about the warping and showed pictures. Manager confirmed that it was not on the truck when they sold it since they do a very thorough inspection of all vehicles before sale."

Smells kinda like BS to me, since I needed an alignment, the bed is about 1/2" offset from the drivers side to the passenger side and there were 2 "permanent" smudges on my dash leather that I noticed the morning after I got back from the picking the truck up at the dealer (bought the truck at 930pm so kinda my fault for not doing a thorough inspection)

Really want to refrain from calling the dealer out to his face, but come on man...
How would I possibly get that warping in the bumper from regular driving?!
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It's the way alot of them come from the factory,it's in the stamping process with the high strength steel,all makes of trucks with steel front dumpers have wrinkles to some extent,(I work as a painter in an all makes body shop).
Some are worse than others,it's down low,in my eye,it's not a huge issue,I can point out way worse flaws on new vehicles in any given lot **cough cough FORD***
They can order you a new one,it may be the same,it may be better,but you might also get some brainwave try and fix it with body filler.....I'd rather live with a little waviness down that low....
 
SWFL_Fisherman said:
Got word from the dealer I purchased the truck from...
Salesmans answer was roughly the following -
"asked the warranty manager about the warping and showed pictures. Manager confirmed that it was not on the truck when they sold it since they do a very thorough inspection of all vehicles before sale."

Smells kinda like BS to me, since I needed an alignment, the bed is about 1/2" offset from the drivers side to the passenger side and there were 2 "permanent" smudges on my dash leather that I noticed the morning after I got back from the picking the truck up at the dealer (bought the truck at 930pm so kinda my fault for not doing a thorough inspection)

Really want to refrain from calling the dealer out to his face, but come on man...
How would I possibly get that warping in the bumper from regular driving?!
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Make your prince known daily and escalate up the chain.
 
H3LZSN1P3R said:
Its wrinkles from the stamping process from what i can see it happens sometimes it could be just the mix of steel in the bumper or the dies getting worn out. Nothing is created equal **** happens..... is it worth worring about? Not in my books
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Compare it to another bumper on a lot, if others don’t have it, I would push for a warranty replacement.
 
SWFL_Fisherman said:
This is my first vehicle with a warranty - my mistake of assuming the selling dealer had some sort of foot up on other dealers for my specific truck.
My bad and didnt mean to irritate anyone by asking. Still learning who can take care of what
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No irritating anyone, they came off as passive aggressive. Rather than take the words as an insult, use them as a literal understanding. Your selling dealer has nothing to do with you or your truck, they decide nothing, help with nothing, and have no bearing on your warranty at all. If you didn't know before, at least now you do.
 
I don’t understand how this is acceptable on any vehicle, let alone a $70k+ one. This wouldn’t be ok on a Civic. Here is my 2019 with no wrinkles. This is a stamping issue plain and simple and should be replaced. Where is RAM Cares to escalate this?
 

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Madmax said:
I don’t understand how this is acceptable on any vehicle, let alone a $70k+ one. This wouldn’t be ok on a Civic. Here is my 2019 with no wrinkles. This is a stamping issue plain and simple and should be replaced. Where is RAM Cares to escalate this?
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Exactly!
 
I'm very happy(sorry) to find this post. I just picked up my 21 6.7 from Arkansas last week. I noticed similar outward rippling near the fog lights on both sides as well as near the bottom. I went to Cerritos ram and spoke with the service manager. Complete *******. He said he grabbed another bumper and said it had the same issue. Ok, but you agree that's not how it should be, he said I'm not agreeing with that statement. I told him off and called ram cares.

The gentleman I spoke with was very kind and escalated my issue to a manager, we will speak tomorrow. He agreed that a 80k truck shouldn't have this issue. If RAM tries to pass this off as acceptable I will lose all faith in the brand. My 3 year old has a 50 dollar chinese tricycle that has perfect construction and finishing work. For 80k, we should all expect the same.
 
Madmax said:
I don’t understand how this is acceptable on any vehicle, let alone a $70k+ one. This wouldn’t be ok on a Civic. Here is my 2019 with no wrinkles. This is a stamping issue plain and simple and should be replaced. Where is RAM Cares to escalate this?
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My man... theres people with BROKEN trucks and @RamCares can't get it fixed. this little bumper anomaly isn't going to get escalated up the chain. Go to a different dealer. And yes, this type of **** happens with every single other brand.
 
My baby faced brand new truck has old man wrinkles up front as well. Like the tailgate alignment issue.....I'm going to deal with it. I don't care to have the dealer tearing into the truck.

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I have some wrinkles on mine closer to the doors, though they are not quite as pronounced probably due to the darker paint color. I noticed them the other day when the light hit it a certain way. You can most definitely feel them though.
 
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