Re: What Ever Happened To Bleeding Ford Blue?????
 

Bleeding Blue...I Am. my dad owned a late 60's fastback drove the Sh!t out of it. the only reason he doesnt have it is cause some old lady totaled it. after that he owned a Bronco. that thing worked hard, sold it to get by when i was a baby. from then on nothing but ford in our driveway.(except those queer ricers who want him to 'install a turbo for me' he makes so much $$$ off those fools) when i was 16 was given the 87' whith a down payment behind the keys wich i was glad to pay. four years and all thats gone out is the alternator!....Im tired of hearing ppl say "i wont buy a ford cause i dont want to brake down on the side of the highway". BullFukcingSh!t!! my friends tranny failed on his mazda 6 (wich was only 2 weeks old) another coworker CRV has it panels coming loose. and i say to them my alternator is pocket change. how much is your foreign crap?
sorry to vent. this is only my 2nd post, but stuff like this really gets to me :)

Re: What Ever Happened To Bleeding Ford Blue?????
 

I've owned 6 Mustangs, 1 Thunderbird, 1 Explorer, and an Escort.

The following items failed (quickly off the top of my head):

5 transmissions
1 engine
6 alternators
3 heater cores
1 EEC
1 timing belt

5 of those 8 vehicles left me stranded at least once due to a major component failure, and I managed to limp one more home despite a broken cluster gear in a T-5. Reliability is relative. One person may think that an alternator failing at 100 or 120k is reasonable and normal. Another person who has driven their last 3 cars to 200k with absolutely 0 failures might not think so. The votes are in, and for the past 20 years Fords are absolutely NOT as reliable as many foreign owned manufacturers.

Re: What Ever Happened To Bleeding Ford Blue?????
 

I've owned(own)
2 rangers
1 focus
1 escape(still own)
2 mustangs(still own)
The only one that has left me stranded is my 89 both times it was the clutch, once limping home from the track and once the following day after the track driving to work. But that was my fault should've just put up the money for a good clutch the first time. Live and learn I guess. The 97 ranger that I used to own currently has 23x,xxx miles on it and my brother in-law drives it everyday with no issues. All cars can/will have problems that's just a fact of life, doesn't matter who builds it, although some may be better quality builds than others. But if the $30,000,000 helicopter that I work on has it's problems you can bet you $30,000 car is going to. Just my $.02 :D

Re: What Ever Happened To Bleeding Ford Blue?????
 

yeah it was ford's fault the plug did that because the threads weren't long enough so the spark plug was revised and updated so new plugs don't look like the old ones (and they don't blow out like that).....and yet ford let's customers take care of the cost because of their mess up

Re: What Ever Happened To Bleeding Ford Blue?
 

This kind of stupid 'factory' screw-up - and some dealers casual disregard for the paying customer when the company makes a mistake - is one of many reasons that Ford is sinking and not that many folks really care much, anymore. It's pretty hard to remain loyal to a car manufacturer that (a) makes far too many crappy cars and (b) stiffs the customer at the local level. It's almost tragic to watch a once-great American carmaker go down due to continued corporate and local incompetence and mismanagement. :(