Hopefully no one has had to replace their vinyls, however I am looking for anyone who has. Roughly 2 months ago I was in an accident and I had to have the front end and passenger fender replaced, in doing so the shop had t take the door off and replace the vinyls on it, I believe to blend the paint but I am not entirely sure why they did it. However after replacing the door vinyl I noticed abut 5 sets of vertical lines, maybe an inch about from each other in the set going along the top vinyl streak. They are kind of hard to see unless you know they are there but you can certainly feel them. It's as if the person applying the vinyl kept the backing on to slowly apply the vinyl and as he lifted the backing as he went down the car very small creases formed. I went back to the shop to tell them it was unacceptable and I wanted it done again, which it apparently was, however the same lines in what look like the same place have occurred again.

What I would like to know is has anyone else run into this, as the contact at the shop told me this was an issue with faulty glue that was on the vinyls and Ford needed to fix the issue by supplying them with a working vinyl. To me it sounds like complete BS and almost seems like they are trying to just get me to forget about it and deal with it. I am willing to deal with the issue if it is a documented problem with the vinyls however I will not deal with it if they are just being lazy schmucks.

I will supply a picture of what I am describing, however it is very hard to see the crease as the white seems to mask it.

In basically the center of the picture about an inch from the lens flare is what I am talking about.

 

Looks like the paint might be raised underneath. It really doesn't look bad though.

 

Either that it they're using more than one piece of vinyl and the crease is where it overlaps? I'm sure they'll fix it for you.

 

True it doesn't look horrible, it's the knowing that it's there that bothers me. The only reason I am even persisting on the issue is that I feel like the shop is just trying to get out of completing this one last cosmetic issue. Really I just wanted to see if anyone else had a similar issue because the tech told the shop to tell me that the issue was with the adhesive, however it looks too fine to be an adhesive issue to me.

 

I'm calling BS because adhesive isn't linear like that. Make them do it again. Ford can get it done without the line so why can't they?