pridemore54
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I am at a cross roads. I bought my '18 Rebel in January or February of this year. First new vehicle I have ever owned. It currently has 6k miles and here are the issues have had come up thus far.
(Please note that my dealership has been helping as much as they can and treating me well.)
- Heated seats don't warm up properly. Barely make it to body temperature so it doesn't feel warm really.
They have replaced just about everything to try and make it work.
- Cruise control stops working intermittently. When I hit the button to turn it on, it acts as if I hit the gear down button above it and gears the truck down, setting it into manual mode.
- Blend doors creak and crack on every start up. Its a hard grinding noise deep inside the dash on every startup. Praying it's just the Gears or actuators but if its the doors themselves the whole dash will have to be taken apart for repair.
- Windshield started whistling super loud at highway speeds. They looked once so far and haven't found why.
- My Bluetooth music starts skipping like a bad CD. Fairly minor issue cause when I hit pause and play again the skipping goes away for a while. Just kind of embarrassing when I have other people with me in my new truck that has a 55k price tag.
I have one other issue I cant recall off the top of my head at the moment but I keep a list inside my truck because I cant remember all the problems I keep having. Most of these wouldn't even bother me so much if it wasn't a brand new vehicle with a 55k sticker.
Moving on to the whole point of this thread, there is a beautiful low mile 2014 Raptor at the same dealership. I am considering letting the dealership buy my Rebel back and taking the Raptor if I have any more issues. Of course this is assuming they will do the right thing and give me a good deal. I know my dealers are feeling the heat with these issues cause every time I'm there getting it worked on they come up and talk to me about how it sucks my **** keeps acting up.
With all that said, I'm just stuck on what I should do if the decision actually comes up. I love my Rebel. Especially the interior and infotainment center compared to the Raptor. My rebel is also completely loaded minus sunroof and rambox (didn't want them). Just looking for some unbiased opinions on what you would do and if you think these issues don't warrant looking for a whole new truck. Dealers have already mentioned my patience far out weighs most peoples so far. Thanks in advance.
(Please note that my dealership has been helping as much as they can and treating me well.)
- Heated seats don't warm up properly. Barely make it to body temperature so it doesn't feel warm really.
They have replaced just about everything to try and make it work.
- Cruise control stops working intermittently. When I hit the button to turn it on, it acts as if I hit the gear down button above it and gears the truck down, setting it into manual mode.
- Blend doors creak and crack on every start up. Its a hard grinding noise deep inside the dash on every startup. Praying it's just the Gears or actuators but if its the doors themselves the whole dash will have to be taken apart for repair.
- Windshield started whistling super loud at highway speeds. They looked once so far and haven't found why.
- My Bluetooth music starts skipping like a bad CD. Fairly minor issue cause when I hit pause and play again the skipping goes away for a while. Just kind of embarrassing when I have other people with me in my new truck that has a 55k price tag.
I have one other issue I cant recall off the top of my head at the moment but I keep a list inside my truck because I cant remember all the problems I keep having. Most of these wouldn't even bother me so much if it wasn't a brand new vehicle with a 55k sticker.
Moving on to the whole point of this thread, there is a beautiful low mile 2014 Raptor at the same dealership. I am considering letting the dealership buy my Rebel back and taking the Raptor if I have any more issues. Of course this is assuming they will do the right thing and give me a good deal. I know my dealers are feeling the heat with these issues cause every time I'm there getting it worked on they come up and talk to me about how it sucks my **** keeps acting up.
With all that said, I'm just stuck on what I should do if the decision actually comes up. I love my Rebel. Especially the interior and infotainment center compared to the Raptor. My rebel is also completely loaded minus sunroof and rambox (didn't want them). Just looking for some unbiased opinions on what you would do and if you think these issues don't warrant looking for a whole new truck. Dealers have already mentioned my patience far out weighs most peoples so far. Thanks in advance.
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