Paint falling off a brand new truck

[Havasubum]

GM has taken care of me over the years.  They replaced the grille on my 2008 Yukon when it was 1 year old and replaced a delaminating steering wheel on my 2011 Denali.  They are now replacing a door trim part that is failing on my 2017 Denali.  All of these occurred without argument. 

[Z45]

Was it a crew cab?   Friend is sales manager in GMC shop and he mentioned lots of quality defects with 1500 crew cabs made in Mexico, paint and rear doors misaligned being a problem.   He showed me a new loaded 2018 Sierra SLT Crew Cab with drivers side rear door severely misaligned, hard to think it made it past quality control, it was at least 1/2 inch + from aligning with the body at rear of door opening.   While I was waiting I walked around and looked at a couple of other new CC and every one had misaligned rear doors, one was really bad, all SLT crew cabs.

He claimed it the reason they are building majority of new body style in US. 

[SlowGMC]

4 hours ago, elcamino said:

Was it a crew cab?   Friend is sales manager in GMC shop and he mentioned lots of quality defects with 1500 crew cabs made in Mexico, paint and rear doors misaligned being a problem.   He showed me a new loaded 2018 Sierra SLT Crew Cab with drivers side rear door severely misaligned, hard to think it made it past quality control, it was at least 1/2 inch + from aligning with the body at rear of door opening.   While I was waiting I walked around and looked at a couple of other new CC and every one had misaligned rear doors, one was really bad, all SLT crew cabs.

He claimed it the reason they are building majority of new body style in US. 

It's a double cab.

[Farmer_2]

On 5/15/2019 at 2:41 AM, SlowGMC said:

It's a double cab.

It's my understanding that all double cab, 4X4 and 2500 series Silverados and Sierras are made in US and all other crew cabs, GMC and Chevy, are made in Mexico. So, I suppose that even the US made trucks can have issues. 

 

My 2018 Silverado LT CC has a slightly irregular door gap on the driver's side (door-fender gap wider than passenger side, which is perfect) but a I keep getting advice from others that it is not worth breaking the paint on the door hinge bolts to adjust the door gap a 1/16th of an inch. But it does irritate me every time I notice it. The rear door fit at the bottom rear of the rear doors is fine. 

 

I'm still in limbo and undecided as to whether or not to have the driver's side front door adjusted or leave it alone and live with it. But I did expect near perfection on the truck as much as it cost... I haven't purchased a new truck in 15 years. 

[Jsdirt]

That's the least we can expect after shelling out $60 LARGE! When I was a kid, this kind of pricing was reserved for European exotic cars ...

[SlowGMC]

Got my truck back can't tell how they fixed it.  It was one day turnaround.  Im assuming they didn't paint the whole grill? Or am I wrong. Looks great though

[Daly]

More than likely, they put a new prepainted grille on.

[Farmer_2]

On 5/21/2019 at 12:24 PM, Daly said:

More than likely, they put a new prepainted grille on.

I agree... that's why it looks so good. 

 

Never seen a body shop paint job/repair without flaws of some kind (trash, orange-peel, sag, overspray, etc...) regardless of how good the body shop's reputation or skill level of the techs.