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kh0432 · 07-28-2012, 15:30

I don't know about the rest of you but I can't wait until I get this piece of junk fixed and unload it. All of the brake lines are rusted out and when I fix one, another goes. This van has always been a gas gussler, is under powered and has a terrible ride. I've owned a lot of Ford products and have been very happy with them, but whoever designed this thing should be fired.

**Bert** · 07-28-2012, 15:40

My brother has a 98 in Michigan, has almost 200,000 miles and it's still going strong.

**R.S.LOGAN** · 07-28-2012, 15:46

Maybe you've just been unlucky with yours . Brake pipes on any car of that year are a common item for needing replacing and very often a fail item on vehicles submitted for our annual test .Kept my w/shop busy many a time replacing pipes .

**Bert** · 07-28-2012, 17:07

We're lucky here in Oregon, we don't have any rust unless we live right on the coast.

**R.S.LOGAN** · 07-28-2012, 17:16

Keep on forgetting not everywhere has our climate . The condition of some of the older cars you see on a lot of car programmes from the USA is amazing .I remember many , many years back a customer shipped over a car from I think California , fantastic nick for it's year .