Posted on 10/17/2025 7:04:57 AM PDT by vespa300
Oct 17 (Reuters) - Ford (F.N), opens new tab is recalling nearly 625,000 vehicles in the U.S. due to seatbelt and rear-view camera display problems, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday. The seatbelt recall affects 332,778 Ford Mustang vehicles, while the camera display issue recall covers 291,901 F-250, F-350 and F-450 super duty trucks, according to NHTSA notices.
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There is just too much junk that can go wrong on vehicles today... We need to get back to cars that you can manually roll up the windows in, and you use your review mirror and a ‘look and see’ to back up your vehicle. Plastic seats are fine too and radio you turn the knob on is good enough for me.
The price would be cheaper and the recalls less common.
Totally agree. A simple car would be a big seller I believe. no turbo, just a six with manual everything. Turbos are high compression disasters . Like disposable engines.
How about we get rid of back-up cameras altogether? If you can’t back a vehicle up safely without one then sorry, you don’t get a driver’s license. The other day some lady almost backed into me in the parking lot; she wasn’t looking behind her, not using the mirrors, she was staring at the back-up display.
Not to mention that back-up screen was the ‘camel’s nose in the tent’ that brought in all the tech-bros, so now we have iPhones on wheels instead of real cars. Thanks a bunch, Elon!!
The Ford F-150 is the most popular truck in the US.
I don’t get it because as I understand it, they have a history of electrical issues, but somebody is buying ‘em. 🤷
Ford is being crushed with the debt they incurred researching, designing and producing the EVs that they cannot sell.Now their better known and saleable products are getting a shoddy reputation.Have been in business for over 125 years. Have seriouds doubts they will survive to 2035.
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My 2021 F-250 tailgate back-up camera works fines. The upper bed camera will only work if the temperature is below 45ish degrees, weird. All these cameras and screens are BS, but I buy it for the engine and the A/C.
Just as stupid as the #1 selling point for phones is the cameras. It is a phone...
And you have mandated batteries in all your tires, so that a wheel has a shelf-life.
Try to find the oil filter on a new vehicle. Mine is behind the driver’s-side front wheel which you have to remove to change it.
The entire paradigm has changed. It used to be that you “owned” a vehicle. It was sold to you, and they didn’t really want to see you, again. Now, it’s all about getting the car to come back in regularly.
Better than any other. All the Chev and GMC’s I had/driven were junk. I switched over to Super Duty’s diesels in 2012 and have never had all the stupid problems half-tons have.
At a $1000 a visit
Yeah I’ve heard about the GM trucks.....too bad because it’s a good looking vehicle.
Not just too much junk that can go wrong, but too much junk that makes driving needlessly complicated. I have a rental Chevy Trax in the driveway right now and the infernal nonstop beeps / boops / tweets / honks the car makes at the driver drives me ‘round the bend. It’s never clear what is triggering all that crap. Then, when you shut the engine off to get out of the car it nags you “Look in the back seat.” Maybe one kid in the USA dies per year because the parent(s) were too negligent to get their kid out of the car, so that warning goes off hundreds of millions of times per year nagging everybody.
I’ve had the car for 10 days now and TWICE the music system connected to my phone has crapped out and required “forgetting” the phone and re-pairing it.
Simple and reliable are SO MUCH BETTER.
I read the other day that auto electronics have a lifetime of about 10 years. After that, the firmware can no longer be upgraded and the car becomes virtually unserviceable. Maybe it will be 20 years, not 10, but the point is that there will be lots of completely dead pieces of automotive junk filling up junkyards with otherwise operating engines, transmissions, brakes, etc.
“How about we get rid of back-up cameras altogether?”
Not a chance! I love them. I can get a fish-eye view of what is behind me - including what may be coming at me from the side as I back out in a parking lot - and see a LOT I could not see in the rear view mirror!
Also great for backing up and attaching a trailer. But mostly great for when I’m between two parked cars, starting to back up in a busy parking lot, and the camera is located on the tailgate of my truck. Back up a few inches and I can see everything, which is vastly BETTER than what my rear view mirror on the front windscreen can show.
And when I’m between two parked cars, looking to the sides will reveal almost nothing. Me and my mirror are only going to see the cars parked on either side of me and a TINY slice of what is behind.
I personally found that to be a kind of bondage. Decades ago I had a shiny new truck (just a 4-cyl stick shift while I was young and in college while working full time). In what little free time I had, I felt restrained in how carefully I loaded and unloaded cargo in the back to keep from scratching it. LOL And treating it like kids gloves when I'd be sweaty and getting in and out of it. LOL
Never again. After I "drove it till the wheels fell off" I replaced it with an old used truck. Then that one was replaced with an old used truck. That frees me to practically abuse it to get'er done for truck chores needed by the family or the church.
“Have been in business for over 125 years”
and they still can’t make brakes or steering that work given the number of recalls in those areas ...
Blame CAFE for 90% of the problems. For instance using a turbo is the only way to get enough power and still meet the damn CAFE requirements. Turbo’s are engine killers.
I have a older car and the backup camera works most of the time but occasionally it just goes dark so back to the old school method when it does. Keeps me on my toes and the old torso twist.
I love my backup camera.
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