Auto Car Wash - Pulls rear pannel off

The auto car was has been pulling the rear corner panels off their brackets. The panels that are on either side of the rear bumper. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a fix?
Currently i climb under with hit the clip back into place. This is a new truck and i should not need to do that after 80% of my car w
ashes.

 

It's not the truck. My neighbours new GMC had his front bumper and quarter panel torn off. Evidently this is a common occurrence.

When I had my AMG Mercedes stated in the manual not to bring vehicles through these contraptions.

 

that sucks…I don’t do auto car washes but as @Eurodriver has said this 3rd Gen bumper ends are crap as it.

You can pull on it and it wants to separate so not surprised it’s happening easily in car washes.

 

Wait... are you going through a car wash that has brushes (i.e. a touch car wash bay vs a touchless)?

 

I never take my truck through those automated car washes. I used to go to some of the touchless car washes and the workers would dry off the vehicle, but I always felt like I would find a scratch that wasn't there before. Now, I just wash it myself and save a few dollars.

 

If I do an automated car wash, its touchless only, and let her air dry.

 

So at the dealers now. Their fix is replacing the body panel with the same compression fitting. I feel this is a temporary fix. It is going to fail again! Might just hit it with some gorilla glue….

 

I had the same problem on my 2023 also. The inner black mounding that the panel clips onto was not properly secured. The washers must have broke through or were not installed. Easy fix though. Thanks for C4 rear bumper install video, took off rear passenger panel. Put some new washers in to hold black bumper attachment in place and snapped bumper right back in.