The story went pretty much as noted. I did not see personally the pry bar used but have the aftermath plainly visible on the car. Actually the story is much longer and worse than I have noted. I could write a page about the deal if I had time. They kept the car an extra week which turned out to be time to fix up the problem I figure. The did a fair job of covering up the wrinkle but if you move the rubber gasket door seal thing and look under it the metal is bent, you can see where body filler has been used, and one of the rivets is different from all the rest where they seperated the metal sheets to smooth out the wrinkle visible on the top of the car. Actually with the rubber back in place it looks very good except for the paint crack. The paint is cracked under some clear coat so either the clear coat did not crack but the underlying paint did or they have re-shot some clear over the crack. the visible body metal does not look damaged, only the paint crack gives away what is under the rubber gasket.
The paint crack probably bothers me less than the door misalignment. So in some way I came out ahead I guess.
I will not get into the tach replacement which was the original reason for going in. I warned them in advance that I was pretty picky and did not want to see any indication that my dash had been apart. When the light hits it right I can see that it has been apart. The listing on the work order for black touch up paint pretty much gave away the fact that there was evidence of the dash coming apart. It would seem that a little blue masking tape would have been a good idea when removing the dash panel.
As an aside the amount billed out to warranty for the parts part of the tach replacement was just over 5,000.00 . That was surprizing to me. ??
My advice now is to be careful where you take your GT for service. My selling dealer has been very good to work with on my car but they politely asked for me not to ask them to re-align the door, they said that they would be required to if I asked but would rather that I not ask them to. I appreciated their assesment of their capabilities.
I do not think that Galpin did the door alignment at their main facility, I think that they farmed it out somewhere close by. Maybe they have a separate body shop.
I did not buy the car at Galpin.
Dave