Crooked hood from factory - anyone else?

Dkg1616 · Feb 15, 2022

Just got my truck and first thing I noticed was that my hood is crooked. It’s not horrible, but noticeable to me for sure.

Doesn’t line up with the fender and the plastic hood vent doesn’t sit flush. Dealer said shouldn’t be an issue as a warranty claim.

Any one else have this issue?

Billet P · Feb 15, 2022

had to look at mines real quick. Mine fortunately did not come with such issues. Hopefully they take car of it.

Claasicdrive · Feb 15, 2022

I believe that's easy to fix/adjust
youtube should show you how to lvl the hood

mendy · Feb 15, 2022

Dkg1616 said:
Just got my truck and first thing I noticed was that my hood is crooked. It’s not horrible, but noticeable to me for sure.

Doesn’t line up with the fender and the plastic hood vent doesn’t sit flush. Dealer said shouldn’t be an issue as a warranty claim.

Any one else have this issue?

i had the same thing..its the fendor

Christop73 · Feb 15, 2022

Same issue here, couple twists on the adjustment knob is all it took to rectify.

Smoke king · Feb 16, 2022

Dkg1616 said:
Just got my truck and first thing I noticed was that my hood is crooked. It’s not horrible, but noticeable to me for sure.

Doesn’t line up with the fender and the plastic hood vent doesn’t sit flush. Dealer said shouldn’t be an issue as a warranty claim.

Any one else have this issue?

Unfortunate but if your handy it's an eazy fix

I would have made the dealership fix it before taking it, it's all of a few minutes to fix

JumpSquadAuto · Feb 16, 2022

This thread might help if its just the height of the front of the hood:

Is anybody elses hood uneven?

Does anybody else have their hood uneven? It's been bugging the shit out of me. The drivers side has a good size gap near the A pilar but is even at rhe front. The passenger side seems more even all the way down. If this is something I can easily adjust myself, I will. If not, it might just be...

www.ram-trx.com

TRXBankheist · Feb 16, 2022

It is a easy fix although here's my question. How is the dealer not catching this and fixing it. I dont believe it's on the PDI but still how can you look at it and not see the gaps. Not hard to "exercise some common sense." Legit lazy M F'rs everywhere nowadays.

zaimer · Feb 16, 2022

TRXBankheist said:
It is a easy fix although here's my question. How is the dealer not catching this and fixing it. I dont believe it's on the PDI yet still how can you look at it amd not see the gaps. Not hard to "exercise some common sense." Legit lazy M F'rs everywhere nowadays.

PDI's are a joke for most dealerships. Rip the plastics off, do a quick once over, spit shine and its good to go. Also this is Stellantis/FCA build quality we are talking here..no surprise. My factory ordered Charger had a crooked hood, big paint blob in drivers door, and ripples down the tops of all four doors (which you could really see through the side mirrors). Don't look things over with a fine tooth comb... it can be very ugly.

Dkg1616 · Feb 16, 2022

Thanks all this was such an easy fix!!! I got it 99% there - good enough it’s a truck!

RedEyeTRX · Feb 16, 2022

Mine came the same way, fixed it the same as you did!

Dkg1616 · Feb 16, 2022

TRXBankheist said:
It is a easy fix although here's my question. How is the dealer not catching this and fixing it. I dont believe it's on the PDI yet still how can you look at it amd not see the gaps. Not hard to "exercise some common sense." Legit lazy M F'rs everywhere nowadays.

Simple…they go as quick as possible to have 2 cigs on their break instead of 1

RedEyeTRX · Feb 16, 2022

TRXBankheist said:
It is a easy fix although here's my question. How is the dealer not catching this and fixing it. I dont believe it's on the PDI yet still how can you look at it amd not see the gaps. Not hard to "exercise some common sense." Legit lazy M F'rs everywhere nowadays.

In 2017 I had my new C7 Z06 in for a TSB windshield replacement. As they worked on it, I walked around the shop, watching a couple of kids playing grabass, talking on their phones, whooping and hollering.....as they changed the oil in 2 other Z06's ($180K worth of cars). Not paying attention to anything they were doing, not focusing on what they were doing. 20% of the good techs at the dealerships do 90% of the work. The rest are useless and PDI techs are USELESS and the simply do not care !

First its the employees, second its the management. Employees will only get away with what management allows.