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1 hour ago, akirby said:
I love the Carshield commercials with Ice-T and other b list celebrities. Don't get blindsided with a $2000 repair. Pay us $4000 and we'll take care of it!I’ve lost count of how many different car warranty companies I’ve seen advertised. They’re almost all using celebrity spokespeople, so I figure they’re making really good money, which is the first sign that it’s got to be a bad deal for the consumer.
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I forget what I was watching the other day, but I saw a Ford ad playing up their improved quality. Heck, it’s the only Ford commercial I’ve seen recently—apparently, the channels I watch are popular with the old folks, ‘cause mostly what I see are Medicare Advantage commercials and AI slop targeting old folks for auto insurance and home warranties. (I swear, the old folks auto insurance commercials are bad—one “old lady” is saying she only drives to the grocery store, but none of the “people” in the background are at all surprised to see her parking in the produce section…)
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Seems like we have a Canadian Navy vet or two here ( @Hugh, maybe?) who might be interested in this.
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On 8/9/2026 at 7:51 AM, akirby said:
But that was from the valve supplier not heat treating them properly. Not a design flaw or something wearing out.There seems to have been a bit of that going around. Earlier this year, Josh Smith of the Montana Knife Company said they lost an entire run of Magnacut knives because they sent them out for heat treatment and the place doing the job screwed it up.
That might also be a contributing reason why they have heat-treating facilities in their new factory…
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My brother filled up at the Costco in Owasso/N. Tulsa on Saturday for $2.96/gal for E10/87, and the Owasso Sam’s had the same fuel for the same price. The Costco on the other side of town (16 miles away) was listed at $3.75 for the same fuel.
I paid $3.71/gal for E10/87 at the west Tulsa Sam’s on Saturday evening.
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9 hours ago, Sherminator98 said:
the design requirement is 15 years or 150K before any major issues.
Durability standard for F-150 was 250K miles last I heard. 150K miles was for cars.
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On 7/27/2026 at 9:56 AM, DeluxeStang said:
As someone who's lived in Utah for 20 years, I don't see any real Utah inspiration in that livery lol. Like there are vague geometric shapes that could be montains, but that's not a thing specific to Utah lol. I was expecting the color to be matched to like our red rocks in Zion's or something. Overall, a swing and a miss that one.
That things screams Barbie, not Utah. As noted above, it’s not for me, but I’m sure it’ll sell.
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On 7/24/2026 at 1:50 PM, fordmantpw said:
To me, if you are offered your job back along with back pay, you don't deserve a settlement. They realized the mistake and tried to make it right, but you said no. So you're just greedy and looking for an easy way out. F U!
Put me on the jury!
I can’t go along with you there. He was fired for doing something that he verifiably did not do, then found another job. Dunno about you, but if a company calls me a thief and a liar then fires me without proof, there’s not a chance in hell I’m going back to work for them, especially if I’m already working for someone else.
The company deserves to get smacked hard for this.
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On 7/11/2026 at 1:08 PM, akirby said:
Let's say You bought a Maverick last year and this year the government retroactively charged Ford $1k per Maverick sold last year due to an error. Would you owe Ford that $1k?
It’s like when Ford got caught in the Chicken Tax shenanigans with the Transit Connect—did Ford get to go after its customers to recover all those back taxes and penalties it owed the gov’t, or did it just have to eat those costs?
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On 7/15/2026 at 1:26 PM, Joe771476 said:
Anyway, I wish Freightliner and VW would enter class 1 thru 5!
Why, so they can become another footnote in truck history like Nissan?
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On 7/6/2026 at 5:08 PM, akirby said:
gnat, gnu, pterodactyl, psychiatrist...
“The ‘o’ in opossum is silent, like the ‘p’ in swimming.” — Roy Blount, Jr.
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14 hours ago, Joe771476 said:
Yeah I know the whole story.
If you think PAG failed because Ford didn’t want competition for Lincoln, you need to unlearn what you have learned in error. The PAG debacle nearly killed Lincoln, and I’m not entirely certain that killing Lincoln wasn’t the point of Nasser’s plan.
There was a red-headed stepchild in that mess, and it was decidedly NOT Jag, Aston, LR, or Volvo.
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3 hours ago, Joe771476 said:
Did you REALLY think Ford would want such an entity to succeed and hurt Lincoln sales??!!
Tell me you don’t actually know what happened without telling me you don’t actually know what happened…
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In related news, Ford re-hires old engineers to get recalls under control because AI AIn’t cutting the mustard.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short/
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I paid $3.19/gal for E10/87 at the Sam’s on Mingo in Tulsa earlier this evening.
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On 5/6/2026 at 10:20 AM, Schpark said:
I am proud to say that I ensured all of my children learned how to drive a manual.
Of my first 12 vehicles, only two had slushboxes. My last four have all had slushboxes, and it still aggravates me that I can’t get a manual transmission in a modern half-ton.
At least my tractors still have gearboxes…
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9 hours ago, BenKohnen said:
Very much the middle of nowhere.
Bubba, you ain’t close to the middle of nowhere. That’s out in west Texas, somewhere between Seymour and Lubbock.
My mom’s maternal relations were from Post, TX. I’m pretty sure the directions to get there are “go to the end of the world and hang a left.”
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It was still $3.14/gal at the Sam’s on Mingo when I stopped to fill up on Friday evening after work.
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I paid $2.97/gal for E10/87 while I was in Norman on Sunday. It was $3.14/gal at the Sam’s on Mingo in Tulsa.
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27 minutes ago, blazerdude20 said:
With the political climate in the US, i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't make an announcement at all. They could just start selling the product and keep a low visibility on the news cycle.
They might not announce that it’s from Chy-na, but they should at least announce that the model is continuing.
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Ford Fired Two-Thirds Of The Bosses Who Said Its Trucks Were Good Enough
in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
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Neither, just regular over-the-air TV. I don’t see the point of paying for garbage when they’re broadcasting plenty of it for free…