Frauds Terrible Quality Control

[seduced]

Paint Mismatch.

Any panel that is plastic (door handles, front and rear bars, door strips, spoiler) are all a different colour to the sheet metal... my bf2 is in seduce, and it looks fine in any light other than full sun or fluro... and it drives me mad.

Whats interesting is, the metallic gold fleck throught the paint reflects differently on the plastic panels, I.e you can bend down and look from a different angle and there is no difference. MY question is, have you had these problems, and did Fraud resray those panels under warranty?

How these cars are signed off through QC makes me wonder...

[senna_T]

They won't re-spray it unless its an obvious colour fault. The plastic and the sheet metal is painted in a different location at a different time, so they will never match, especially on a metallic colour like seduce.

Did you actually inspect this car before you bought it? For someone that openly admits to being very picky, I'm surprised you accepted it!

[Tocchi]

any car will have that.

paint on metal will always look different to paint on plastic.

[seduced]

Yep, I saw it before I purchased it, and hated it, but the rest of the car lured me in... especially when I drove it. Everything else is wonderful. It can only be seen up close, and not many people can notice it unless pointed out. I was banking on Fraud maybe fixing it... was wondering if anyone else has managed to get ford to actually fix it.

[dule]

I see how it might be a little annoying, I notice the same on my lightning strike door handles but to call it "Frauds Terrible Quality Control" is a little to harsh. Have a look at a silver VE Late model camira rear bumper and you'll feel better

[Dagabond]

Get em to paint it a decent colour if they do...

[tmac450]

Metalic on metal to plastic nearly always looks different.

The Mitsubishis are the worst, looking like the bars are from different cars on some Lancers.

A few years ago a spray painter told be the reason metalic colours cna be hard to match is that some factories us a magnetic charge on metalic to make the flecks stand out more, obviously this causes problems when it comes to plastic, or paint matching for repairs.

[Pete A]

Guys, My brother has his own paint shop and he works on all sorts of cars incuding the top end stuff. I've had this discussion with him a number of times. Nothing you can do about it. It's a metal vs plastic thing and all cars have it. Some colours exhibit the problem worse. I have a Seduce FGXR6T and I can see it in various angles of reflection. My BAII Xr8 was in Mandarin and it had it as well. Take a look at a number of other makes of cars. It's the same issue and mostly noticeable in prestige colours with metal flake.

[seduced]

Fair enough... I'll just get used to it... a small price to pay for what is one hell of a car. Either way, everyone loves the colour, and its great to have something different to the billions of blue and silver xrs out there.

It is still poor quality control. When it came to choosing the colours, this should have been tested by Ford for mismatching before approval for use. that's controlling quality.

[Pete A]

You said it! re the blue and silver mate!