Warranty Claim Denied

myredracer wrote:
Those mirrors really are expensive.

This past summer I was driving along a busy narrow 2-way street in an industrial area of town. A guy in an F150 was coming towards me in the opposite lane and he quickly swerved towards or over the center of the road to avoid a car coming out of a lot (I was as far right as I could be). His mirror tagged the mirror on our F250. No damage to our mirror at all but the glass popped out of his and the driver could not get it back in. We both stopped and he asked me to pull into an alignment shop where the F150 was being worked on.

Turns out a tech. from the alignment shop was driving the F150 which was a new 2014 in for a checkup from the dealer. I gave the shop my info. and the manager said he would get the owner to deal with it. When I got home, I phoned our insurance co. to file a claim just in case I got blamed for it. Never heard a thing until a week or so later the owner phoned me to ask what happened. We had a good cordial chat and he knew it was the shop's fault. The shop should have made a claim under their garage policy but didn't and I have to wonder if the tech. shouldn't have driving the F150, or maybe they didn't want the Ford dealer to find out.

The owner of the F150 spoke to Ford and said that Ford wanted $1400 (!!) for one mirror which I guess included installation.

OEM parts for a Ford truck are just freakin' expensive and their prices seem mafia-inspired. I bought some parts from our dealer when I rebuilt the front end last year and was choked at what it cost. I ended up buying an aftermarket rebuilt steering box at a fraction of what Ford wanted. Even small Ford-specific nuts, bolts and fasteners are frightfully expensive.