Some Ford Vehicles To Have 'Best In Class' Quality By 2025

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6 vehicles in particular, and stated plans on how to achieve this:

 

https://fordauthority.com/2023/05/some-ford-vehicles-to-have-best-in-class-quality-by-2025/

[akirby 16,900]

That’s obviously behind the slow rollout of options on Ranger.  Get the basics right first.   Good to hear that they’re stopping production instead of just pushing ahead with known problems.  Let’s hope they’re doing the same thing with engineering.

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I will agree with what someone said, why not strive to make your entire lineup best in class quality. I'm a little miffed that they seem to be focusing on quality for all their trucks except for the maverick. Almost makes you wonder if they even care about the maverick or maverick buyers. 

[rmc523 4,431]

55 minutes ago, DeluxeStang said:

I will agree with what someone said, why not strive to make your entire lineup best in class quality. I'm a little miffed that they seem to be focusing on quality for all their trucks except for the maverick. Almost makes you wonder if they even care about the maverick or maverick buyers. 

i don’t know if the idea is to only focus on those.   I think it’s rather those are the main priority since they hit the biggest number of buyers.

I doubt they said “let’s do better quality on only these models, F*** the rest of them!!”

[akirby 16,900]

1 hour ago, DeluxeStang said:

I will agree with what someone said, why not strive to make your entire lineup best in class quality. I'm a little miffed that they seem to be focusing on quality for all their trucks except for the maverick. Almost makes you wonder if they even care about the maverick or maverick buyers. 

It’s really not clear?  Because it requires hardware changes and additional personnel in the factory and I’m sure they want to trial it on a few plants and vehicles before rolling it out everywhere.  You don’t just flash cut something like this or you’ll end up redoing everything as you fine tune it.

 

It also probably means that Maverick quality is better than the rest.  That was certainly the case with the first Gen Fusions coming out of Hermosillo.

 

And this is only the assembly piece - they are most assuredly already working on engineering and design.

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5 hours ago, akirby said:

It also probably means that Maverick quality is better than the rest. 

 

That is indeed the case. Consumer Reports rates Maverick as the most trouble-free Ford branded vehicle in its latest reliability survey. Maverick and Edge are the only Fords that were better than average.

 

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4 hours ago, rperez817 said:

 

That is indeed the case. Consumer Reports rates Maverick as the most trouble-free Ford branded vehicle in its latest reliability survey. Maverick and Edge are the only Fords that were better than average.

 

Not bad, the hybrid system in the maverick has been around for ages, and is about as reliable as it gets. But our maverick's interior seems like it's clicking and rattling more when encountering road imperfections that it used to. Which is a little frustrating considering the truck is 6 months old with 1,800 miles on it. It could just be my imagination, who knows. 

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6 minutes ago, DeluxeStang said:

Not bad, the hybrid system in the maverick has been around for ages, and is about as reliable as it gets. But our maverick's interior seems like it's clicking and rattling more when encountering road imperfections that it used to. Which is a little frustrating considering the truck is 6 months old with 1,800 miles on it. It could just be my imagination, who knows. 

 

Thank you for sharing your Ford Maverick experience DeluxeStang. You are correct about the power-split hybrid powertrain in that vehicle, it's well known for its reliability. The P2 hybrid powertrain using 10R80 MHT transmission on F-150 PowerBoost, Explorer Hybrid, and Aviator Grand Touring by contrast has been plagued with problems.

 

The non-hybrid version of the 10R transmission has been quite troublesome too. Each of the vehicles Ford highlighted for its "best in class" quality target use that tranny, so maybe Ford has a plan to finally fix the issues with it?

 

 

Regarding the clicking and rattling in your Maverick, is it temperature dependent? Both cars my wife and I own (2021 Mustang Mach-E and 2018 Tesla Model S) seem to be more rattle prone on days with a wide temperature range, especially in the early springtime.

 

 

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I can't comment on any vehicle but the Super Duty presently (though I hear the Maverick is very good).  As for the Super Duty, quality-wise it's running a distant 3rd.  I think it may be longer than 2 years for it to gain parity with GM or Ram.  Maybe not until the next generation is introduced.   

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2024 Ford F-150 Will Have 2,400 Fewer Parts (fordauthority.com)

 

This report is saying the refreshed F-150 will have 2,400 fewer parts, which can help with quality issues.

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At this point, most peoples reaction to Ford's announcement will be this:

 

Ford needs to be serious and follow through for years in order for this to turn around, especially after having class leading quality and throwing away the reputation.