Posted on 08/03/2006 7:35:00 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
Huh? What is the connection? Diesels have no electrical system, nor brakes? Ford doesn't build diesels?
"Wow,it really does come down to that?"
I've seen it happen many times.
2 cents per switch times 20 million switches = $400,000.00
The bean counter is a HERO! He just saved the company that much money.
The connection is that Ford diesel trucks don't have this problem. Not to mention that they get much better fuel mileage and, at least for now, diesel is the cheapest fuel around.
Top of the line engine, beautiful car...T-Boned by a hit-and-run driver...knodking me out, in Missouri City, Texas.
That car prolly saved my life, so I'm driving a big Ol' Buick Roadmaster now.
knodking=hey, I like that word.
Did anyone else notice that these switches were not made by Ford? Or that Ford is not the only user of them? It turns out Ford's critical mistake was installing them vertically. Those manufacturers who used them horizontally aren't being recalled.
Why aren't they naming the switch manufacturer?
Yep them Fords are real pieces of crap. That's why my son got rid of his Escort...with over 300,000 mi on it.And our daughter is looking to unload her Contour truly one of the worst cars Ford has ever made with nearly 200,000 miles.I'll be keeping my Ranger though because nobody makes a decent basic small truck anymore.Everything now days is extra wide, super duper cab with a luxury car interior that will look like hell after a months use as a real truck.
I've owned two "vehicles" in the category of POS.
1960 Ford Galaxy
1973 Dodge Monoco
Haven't bought an "American" car since.
Semper Fi
You miss the point. 40 million cars a year are manufactured, and one engineering snafu caused this recall.
Other than that, I love my van. Every car I have ever owned has been a Ford and I've been pleased with them all (except the Pinto).
I never lost an engine on any of mine and one of them had over 200,000 miles on it when I got rid of it.
But the diesel trucks are part of the recall. The F250's and above are all diesels, correct?
Nope... some are diesels, but not all... most aren't diesel, actually...
"Warning! Obscure reference ahead:"
No references. Just my personal experience, for what it's worth.
ROTFLMAO!
I bet you're right.
I feel your pain, my friend! I was driving to campus in 2000 in my Merc, physics midterm IIRC, and some oblivious woman on a cell phone made a last-moment, oops-I-missed-my-turn-I-think-I'll-make-it-now turn and rammed into the front of my car, destroying every piece of hardware I'd ever installed in that car.
I spent the entire summer before that semester doing a complete overhaul of the suspension and steering systems, and to think she drove away in her Plymouth Breeze. No insurance, suspended driver's license, and she gets to drive away. There oughta be a law!
Uh, no. The picture following the Warning! is the obscure reference. (A still from the movie "Class Action", starring Gene Hackman, in which a car compnay is sued for deaths caused by a faulty part the manufacturer thought was too expensive to replace. Hey, I said it was obscure).
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