Darrin De May
I'm Awesome
I used to work at the Ford dealership in Huntington Beach, CA back when Explorers were new. Don't remember bad paint issues on them back then, although I did see other vehicles get repainted under warranty due to acid rain that ate through the clearcoat. The scariest issue that I saw with the early Explorers was with the sunroofs. They were removable glass panels that you would remove, then slide into a vinyl slipcover, then stow in the cargo area and strap down. The scary part was when folks would go to reinstall the panel, the latches didn't always clamp down properly, and customers would come back complaining that the glass panel had flown off while they were driving down the freeway. Would hate to have been behind one of those! Before working at the Ford store, I'd worked at a Chevy dealership when the Lumina dustbuster-looking minivan was new. They had power rear side glass that pivoted out. Nice idea, too bad that the hinge at the front of the glass was basically glued on, so those would occasionally also blow loose on the freeway. The strangest paint issue that I saw while selling Chevys was with the yellow Corvettes that would start turning green. We had a coupe and a convertible on the showroom floor that began turning even before they were sold. Weird! Almost as strange was how the early Nineties yellow Mustangs attracted swarms of tiny black bugs that would cover the hoods & decklids to the point that we had to keep those cars in the showroom to keep the bugs off and stop them from freaking out potential buyers. Don't know if bugswarms are worse than bubbling paint, they're BOTH annoying!
Ford and Mopar both guilty. Dunno about GM
