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Nothing really new from Ford!!!
SoonerLS replied to Fabiano Pires Castagna's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
At least that’s more cost-effective than their traditional “launch and abandon” strategy. -
FWIW, my dad did once turn in a 25-hour day on his time sheet, and he got paid for it. The company he worked for paid for him to fly to one of their installations (where he’d previously worked) to fix a problem, and he stayed on site until the problem was fixed. The full day that he was up there was the end of DST, which is a 25-hour day, so the company paid him for working a 25-hour day. Having been salaried my entire professional career, I spent more than 24 hours at work a few times, but I never got paid extra for it.
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Mustang Dark Horse Boss Potentially Spotted
SoonerLS replied to Broncofan7's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
Ford’s 7.0L is the 427… -
The reports I heard in the tech press said only that an investment fund where Bezos is the big investor has an investment in Slate. They said it’s just one of many investments, and they thought it unlikely that he even knew about the investment before it blew up in the news, let alone had any say in the operations of the company.
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New Light & Medium Duty News
SoonerLS replied to Joe771476's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
You really think that stopping an annual sales volume that doesn’t even amount to two weeks of production at DTP is going to materially affect F-Series sales? -
Ford Recall Troubles
SoonerLS replied to Bob Rosadini's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
Hopefully they’ll get it squared away. -
Ford Recall Troubles
SoonerLS replied to Bob Rosadini's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
I don’t know if it’ll work on your generation of truck, but it’ll take a little while if it does. The problem on the 12th Gen trucks was that the BMS wasn’t allowing the charging system to sufficiently charge the battery (maybe because of short trips, I don’t remember), so it was legitimately turning the system off to save battery. After disconnecting the BMS, it took a few trips for the charging system to get the battery back up to full capacity, and that’s when the truck stopped turning everything off right after killing the ignition. Also, on the 12th Gen trucks, there were sensors on both power leads from the battery. One was the BMS that was safe to unplug, but the other one had to stay connected. I’ve long forgotten what the “other one” was, if I ever knew at all. -
Ford Recall Troubles
SoonerLS replied to Bob Rosadini's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
It’s not so much an error message as a status notification. Disconnecting the sensor caused the system to stop the “optimized” charging and just go back to charging all the time, which caused the cutoff to stop happening so quickly after killing the ignition. It still happens, but only after 20 minutes or so. I was concerned that it might shorten the battery life, but considering that my truck is coming up on 12 years old and is on its second battery, it would appear that the short cutoff was the only “casualty.” -
Ford Recall Troubles
SoonerLS replied to Bob Rosadini's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
I haven’t spent much time on hydrostats, but every geared tractor I’ve ever driven has had “cruise control”—it’s called a hand throttle and a governor. -
Ford Recall Troubles
SoonerLS replied to Bob Rosadini's topic in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
The solution for this on the 12th Gen F-150 was to unplug the Battery Monitoring System sensor on one of the leads to the battery (I think it’s on the negative lead, but it has been a long time since I yanked it). The BMS is supposed to make charging more efficient, but all it seemed to do was cause it to charge insufficiently. -
Yep. We’ve discussed this ad nauseum over the years, but Ford’s stock price will always lag because of their two-tiered stock structure where the Ford family controls the voting stock. That keeps out big investors, like institutional investors, because they can’t buy any control over the company—no matter how much Ford common stock you buy, you don’t get any say in how the company is run. On the minus side it keeps the stock lower in price, but on the plus side it keeps the likes of Carl Icahn and other activist investors away.
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You ought to look up Steve Lehto’s “Crazy Town” miniseries on his YouTube channel. Lehto had been the successful plaintiff’s attorney in a civil case, and the defendant later tried to sue him to recover what he’d lost. Despite the fact that the suit was frivolous and there was no legal way for him to recover what he sought, he still found an attorney dumb enough to file it.