Mexico VS. Kentucky
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Mexico VS. Kentucky
Sorry to stir up the hornets nest, but as most of you know Super Duty's are now being built in Mexcio. I was open minded when I was made aware of this and thought that they may be just as good of truck's. I was at my local dealer the other day and there was a Mexican built and Kentucky built super duty side by side. I found some significant differences. There were sloppy welds on the cab, the hood and fender alignment was poor and there was a severe paint flaw on the tailgate of the truck built in Mexico. If the truck built in Mexico would have been mine I woudn't have accepted it. This may be isolated, but I would be curious to see if anyone else makes the same observations.
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Ordered 8-10 2001 F250 CC V-10 4x4 156 WB
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Being extremely ****-retentive (is that spelled with a hyphen?), I looked the SDs from KY over pretty hard before getting my "hecho en Mexico" F-250. I remember specifically looking at the hood/grill interface and found the US models to be uniformly canted one way or another. I was surprised when mine showed up perfectly alaigned. Paint is beautiful (Harvest Gold). Some of the pinch welds on the rear of the cab caught by eye but I haven't compared them yet.
I've only got 2000 miles but mucho happy so far.
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I've only got 2000 miles but mucho happy so far.
Bob
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2000 F-250SD X-cab SB 4x4 auto 4.10LS
5.4L off-road and camper packs
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Are you sure that the truck you saw made in Mexico had not been in a Wreck? I bought a new dodge ram once that had been wrecked on a test drive and it looked prefect from outside but when you looked closley at paint and welds they were not perfect! But the vehicles from either factories are painted by machines and welded by machines so were they come from should have nothing to do with that!
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>Are you sure that the truck
>you saw made in Mexico
>had not been in a
>Wreck? I bought
>a new dodge ram once
>that had been wrecked on
>a test drive and it
>looked prefect from outside but
>when you looked closley at
>paint and welds they were
>not perfect!
Well, no I don't know that it wasn't wrecked. I do know that the odometer indicated 9 miles when I picked it up so whoever might have wrecked it would have had to do it quick.
I have had occasion to crawl all over (and under) the truck over the past couple of months (see gauges in this NG) and have yet to find anything amiss. If I do, I'll certainly let the group know.
I take strength in the logic that my truck was built by some hard working guy/gal that has a job that pays much more than their peers can dream of, is difficult to obtain, has been doing this for some time, and beats the hell out of the job opportunities in his environment. (Chiclets, senor?)
Bob
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>you saw made in Mexico
>had not been in a
>Wreck? I bought
>a new dodge ram once
>that had been wrecked on
>a test drive and it
>looked prefect from outside but
>when you looked closley at
>paint and welds they were
>not perfect!
Well, no I don't know that it wasn't wrecked. I do know that the odometer indicated 9 miles when I picked it up so whoever might have wrecked it would have had to do it quick.
I have had occasion to crawl all over (and under) the truck over the past couple of months (see gauges in this NG) and have yet to find anything amiss. If I do, I'll certainly let the group know.
I take strength in the logic that my truck was built by some hard working guy/gal that has a job that pays much more than their peers can dream of, is difficult to obtain, has been doing this for some time, and beats the hell out of the job opportunities in his environment. (Chiclets, senor?)
Bob
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2000 F-250SD X-cab SB 4x4 auto 4.10LS
5.4L off-road and camper packs
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 30-Sep-00 AT 12:32 PM (EST)[/font][p]The truck built in Mexico only had the standard 14 or so miles on it so I don't think it was wrecked. I just picked up my truck and it happened to come from Kentucky and there was a small ding in the tailgate, but it was different than the paint bubble I saw on the other one. I still beleive that the truck's from Mexico may be built just as well, this is just one chance I had to compare them side to side. I agree that the workers in Mexico are most likely some of the best in the country and probably don't want to see those factories go anywhere else.
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