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fordtech1

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  1. Do you use the same gas station and fuel type? The smell is the hydrocarbons reacting with the catalytic converter. My mother had a Cadillac that when using one particular gas station, it smelled like that. Change stations and it would go away. Also, a heavy foot will cause that smell.
  2. It will probably settle out of court. No matter the evidence or truths, the judge/jury always side with the “poor victims” against the big mean corporation. Although Ford has not always been up front and cooperative with some of its decisions about safety or problems, I think they tried to do right for this problem.
  3. Which means it probably is the latter. Which means epas is less likely to fail. Not everyone fails. Obviously you are salty about epas. If you had to repair yours because you were out of warranty and didn’t opt for an esp, well then that sucks. Doesn’t mean everyone will fail. I’m not even sure how this pertains to this thread. Other than he had a Nissan that the emergency braking was erratic and Nissan hadn’t come up with a fix yet and it happened a few times. The customer became scared of the car so he traded. The only real oddity of the situation is that he’s in a Ford rather than a nissan from a nissan dealer. Which now HRG explained that company owns a Ford store also, which makes more sense.
  4. You realize epas failures are rare after 2014-2015 MY? PTUs are still troublesome. However, those things can be repaired.
  5. It’s not that the Nissan had a problem. It’s interesting that they put him in a different manufacturers car all together. That’s very odd. You would think they would want him back in a Nissan. I’m sure that’s how they made the numbers work because it was a trade in and I’m sure they were light in the Explorer. However, bad PR to put a customer in another brand after they had problems with yours.
  6. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2019/08/07/lawsuit-says-gm-sold-trucks-not-compatible-american-diesel-fuel/1943084001/
  7. Sounds like this is mainly a transporter issue. When vehicle goes through PDI it’s taken out of transport mode which would take care of that for customers not seeing gear indicator.
  8. 3 weeks for a torque converter ? They that far behind on work?
  9. My phone does some crazy auto correct. That’s supposed to be inexpensive. They are fairly inexpensive to rebuild the front end.
  10. You should not be able to move the wheels by hand up/down or left to right. Naturally the wheels will turn left and right and the steering wheel will turn with it. Any play indicates a bad suspension component. Chances are you have worn out ball joints and/or tie rods. If it were mine. I would plan on doing upper control arms and lower ball joints. Check tie rods and sway bar links. Those cars are inexpto rebuild the front end. Then get an alignment afterwards.
  11. These transmissions shudder on acceleration. However, the newer models and even the older ones that have had the TCM replaced, aren’t a ticking time bomb. I would put them in the annoying category not the dangerous life threatening category. TCMs where most the culprits for neutraling out while driving or not shifting. Those failures have dropped immensely. As I’ve said several times. It’s awful to have a car that shudders and you are paying for a new car. Ford should give owners assistance to offset the depreciation. However, they aren’t death traps or specifically money pits. The two friends of mine that recently traded them for ecosports liked the focus and said it got great fuel mileage but the shudder in traffic worried them. Plus the depreciation was a concern also. If it was looking for a cheap commuter car, I’d buy one. I’m actually keeping my eye for a cmaxx energi as a put around.
  12. It’s been a really long time but I believe the 2001-2008 with the cd4e trans was not flat tow capable without adding an auxiliary pump to circulate fluid to keep trans cool. (Technically it was listed as a non flat tow vehicle) The 2009-2012 2wd 6f35 was allegedly flat tow capable but it still cooked the trans by foaming the fluid. They made several revisions on the procedure but still cooked them. Adding a auxiliary pump was still necessary to safely tow it. Then ford said the hell with it and the 6f35 is not flat tow capable. One fun fact the 2wd 5sp was flat tow capable in any year it was available.
  13. The flip side of that coin is you can get a great commuter car for cheap. Get one that is still under Powertrain warranty and if you do a lot of interstate travel it would be great. Just know the idiosyncrasies of the transmission. I’ve seen them with high highway miles and original clutch.
  14. However, they are causing a concern which is noise.
  15. So my question is how do they know the strut and strut mounts are bad? It’s very very rare you can visually see a bad strut. Unless there is a noise complaint or bad tire wear or is damaged. It’s Very hard to see that a gas strut is bad. Sway bar links can be loose or torn boots so a visual on that isn’t hard. There again, a noise complaint would be expected. Second opinion time for sure.
  16. Oh I understand where you are coming from. It’s still premature for any of that to fail unless it’s heavy service, aka taxi, potholes, curb strikes.
  17. Chances are there is a tie rod end and alignment plus some wallet flush items. But the total is all what you remember. I know a guy who has a Camry and they said he needed tires and alignment for $2500. Of course that was not the only items on the estimate. It had OEM tires and alignment plus a 40k service with all the flushes. But all he notices was tires and $2500.
  18. Definitely get a second opinion. If that’s the case all that is worn out. Then less than 40k miles I would ask for assistance.
  19. Just got a call over the weekend. Another friend of mine with a focus ended up with a ecosport. I thought escape would be the replacement of the focus and the ecosport for the fiesta. I’m actually surprised they went with another Ford. This is why I say ford should offer these current owners of dsp6 vehicles some extra assistance to offset the depreciation they take for trading these shudder boxes in.
  20. By the way, I wonder is that’s just a promotional car. The rear is way too high up like it’s missing weight.
  21. I don’t see much advantage of the convertible compared to the targa top. There’s still a bulkhead behind you. Only advantage I see is it’s probably power operated.
  22. I think everyone is in the same mind set as to where’s the catch!? Mid engine car, numbers sound good on paper, and starting at less than 60k. Fiero? I figure the base price is a marketing scheme to get you interested, like most marketing, then add one option and the price rockets. All automotive enthusiast are thinking the same thing, why is it so cheap? What did they cut to get it there? I think most of the comments have been positive, so I think gm did a good job on this one. Can’t wait to see the pricing.
  23. Only problem I have with the interior is the wall with the buttons. It looks like the passenger would be uncomfortable sitting next to an airplane bulkhead where their leg and elbow are hitting it. I don’t know for sure obviously but that’s what it looks like.
  24. The price is impressive. Only question is this going to be like the non existent Tesla model 3 with a “base price”. The corvette is the only GM product I like and would own. Especially the C7. That’s a pretty car.
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