"deputystoneman" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
news:
[email protected].
> how about ford makes a quality product at a reasonable price and
stands
> behind it.
> and the unions get reasonable about pay and benefits?
>
Just what do think is reasonable? How much less are you willing to do
the same job for?
On the quality issue, I think I've owned some of the supposed worst
vehicles ever built.
I had a 1973 Ford Pinto Wagon, baby blue, bought used in desperate
times for $50, done in trade for labor to get the clutch on a German
speced 1964 Mercedes Benz that a GI brought back from Germany working
for a used car dealer back in 84. I beat that car unmercifully. The
kid who owned it before had packed bondo around the roof rack to stop
it from leaking, don't have to tell you what that accomplished. I
took it off, aluminum duct taped the holes as big as grape fruit, a
layer of fiberglass and two spray cans for white rustolem paint. I
used it as a junk yard runner for side jobs done in the driveway
hauled more than a few engines in her, fishing car, and daily work
vehicle. I towed a 75 caddy sedan deville 30 miles on a tow rope
behind it on I-75 in Florida at 50 mph. I used to run logging roads
in the national forest in Ocala with it to get to fishing holes. The
floor boards went to hell in it, and my patch only slowed down the
roof rot, but she was still running when she went to the salvage yard,
and little 2.0 liter had almost 300,000 miles on her, the valve guides
were leaking fierce, Kendal GT70 weight slowed it down. I learned
that you had to shift out of first on the auto at no more than 42mph,
or a valve in the tranny would open and she'd go to neutral until the
rpms would drop. and that's how I drove her for five years. Friends
said when she shifted to second the stainless steel whip antenna on
the back bumper would all most kiss the pavement. She was a hard
running car, and sometimes I miss her. I put a few timing belts on
her, a water pump, two alternators, one starter. I was going to chop
the wagon area of the roof off, move the tailgate foreword and wield
it in for a little Pinchero, play on Pinto and Ranchero. But she was
vandalized, all the glass smashed out of her while sitting a buddy's
garage in large, along with 42 other calls at his lot and the
dealership next door while we were at the drag races with his car. I
figured it was a sign.
But I digress service bulletins and recalls 2005 models
2005 Toyota camry line had 25 , 1 recall for navigation system
Acura's flag ship 3.5RL had 27, 3 recalls
acura 3.2TL 24, 1 recall faulty fuse boxes
Honda Accord 2.4 ltr 42, 2 safety recalls, fuse box and side air bags
Honda Accord 3.0 same as above
Lexus SC430 15 , no recalls
The same year Crown Vic had 20 service bulletins, no recalls
The focus, had 27, 1 a recall, for an emissions sticker
The 500 2wd had 15 no recalls
the 500 AWD had 15 as well no recalls
the Taurus had 18, no recalls
All info from AllData.
so fords cheapest had as many total as Acura's flag ship, but 2 less
recalls, the rest of the ford
line was under all the so called great ones from Japan, with the
exception of the Lexus.
amazing, and yet we never hear about the rice rockets recalls in the
news, just the American Big two,
GM and Ford.
why didn't we hear about all the ball joint failures Toyota was
having?
why didn't we hear bout the rear axle hubs failing on toyotas in the
late 90's early 2000's?
What happened to the Toyota Vans from the late 80's early 90's?
why weren't we hearing about all the vehicle fires with them?
Why wasn't the news all over Honda with its control arm failures in
the late 90's early 2000's?
I wonder why that is?
Whitelightning
