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hi gang............hey about 2 months ago i posted about how my passenger side door mouldings were not striaght on my new GMT-900 ext cab truck. the mouldings looked like the truck went over a hill as the machines apllied the mouldings in where the front was higher than the rear by almost 1"...........angled down in other words.

the opinions from that post were that i should take it back to the dealer. i did and they replaced the side moulding and now they are striaght as they should be. they also replaced the lettering and the little GM badge to make things align together.

problem was, the lettering was now much higher than it was suppose to be..................at that point i said "screw it" i'll buy the lettering and badge and fix that myself.

well, today i pulled the lettering and badge off and low and behold, there were 2 nice chips in the paint right under the GM badge...........they had been touched up, and obviously this is why the lettering was set too high above the mouldings.

i've gone ahead and filled the chips which are tiny, but at this point noticeable now that i have set the lettering 1" above the mouldings to match the drivers side hieght.

now, what would or should i do about it?

asilverblazer Senior Enthusiast

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You are kind of stuck with it if you ask me, because they will blame the paint chip on you when you removed the old lettering. If you had had them fix it to begin with you might have had better luck getting them to fix the paint chips.

 

Not saying I would have done things differently myself. I probably would have done the letters myself too.

summerwind Enthusiast

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heh heh.....you guys are so right.

at least the chips are the size of pinheads.

i filled and polished them and they are hardly noticeable........................will fill them a couple more times as they are just a tad under the level of the factory paint.........should look like the rest of the factory orange peel :crazy::crackup: once i cut and polish them...........................lesson learned.

thx for the replies

BigJayDogg3 Senior Enthusiast

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I guess you could, since they can't exactly admit they put the letters there to cover the chips. Oh well it can't hurt to try! What's the worst they can do tell you they aren't fixing it?

summerwind Enthusiast

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nah i'm leavin well enough alone...........with my luck the GM would have them fix it which means they'd probably end up repainting the door and we both know what a mess they can make out of that.

thing is, i expected a professional job out of them..............i guess i just want to let them know how stupid the people are in their body shop, but what good would it do?

summerwind Enthusiast

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well it never hurts to be civil with some people.............took the truck back to the dealer yesterday, told him that i had pulled the lettering off and moved it to a lower posistion to eliminate the goofy look left by having the letters almost 2" higher than the moulding that the dealer fixed, and i offered to pay at cost for another set of mouldings and lettering to remedy the chip problem which was left behind by the dealers body shop...........the Sales manager took one look and said nothing doing, bring the truck back in and he's going to make it right.

 

pretty cool eh?

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