This is a current update on the situation:
I visited my local Ford dealer today where I originally bought my Mustang. This dealer knows that I get my Mustang serviced ONLY at their dealership and nowwhere else so they cannot say to me that the damage to my Mustang happened anywhere else. While I was there, I met with the service guy and with my personal Ford mechanic which I use every time that I bring in my car for service there. He is an excellent mechanic and is very meticulous. He also knows that I am meticulous. So, I haven't had any problems with this mechanic for the last 3 years that I have been using him. My mechanic knows my car very well, but he did not work on the car the last time when I visited the dealership over a month an a half ago. I had to get a nail taken out of my right rear tire and the service department had someone else take the nail out instead of my own mechanic. So, the different mechanic that worked on my car the last time was the one who did the damage to the rocker panel seams. My own personal Ford mechanic even told me point blank today that the other mechanic wasn't careful when he put my Mustang up on the lift. The other mechanic never checked to see if he had the car correctly on the lift before he lifted the car up in the air to fixed my tire. So, I think that this Ford dealership knows that they are the blame for the damage. My personal mechanic told me that they only way to fix the damage that's been done to my car is to send it out to a bodyshop.
SO, my next step now is to bring in my Mustang on Monday to the Ford service department and to have them take a look at the extent of the damage that they did to my car. I think that they will send me to a private body shop which they use that's located here in my local area. I wasn't able to take my Mustang to Ford service and have them look at it today because we had a snowstorm up here and the roads were really bad.
I am hoping that Ford will be able to fix my car correctly. I told the service guy today that I have my own body shop to take my Mustang to for the repairs. He told me that the Ford service department will not allow me take it to my own body shop. I am not sure if the Ford service department can do this. I know for a fact that the dealership does not have their in-house bodyshop. They send all their cars out to a private bodyshop here in my local area for all the bodywork. And that's where they want to send me too. When I will bring my Mustang into Ford service on Monday, I will speak to the service manager there and tell him that I have my own body shop and I will see what he says. The guy who told me that I couldn't bring my car to my own body shop today was not the service manager. I don't mind bringing my Mustang into their own private bodyshop if that bodyshop does a quality job fixing the damage to my car. I don't know how I can ask around to find out if the private bodyshop that they use is reliable and if they do quality work. That's what worries me.
Also, I myself don't have my own body shop either. I lied to the Ford dealer today when I told them that I have my own bodyshop. I said this to them so I could see what they were going to say to me. Anyways, I looked in the phonebook today to try to pick a bodyshop and there are 4 pages worth of bodyshops all around here within a 10 mile radius. I don't know which one to go to. I am hoping that the one that the Ford dealer uses does good work and won't take shortcuts. I will be BS if they don't fix my Mustang properly.