Ever since my car hit about 10,000 miles everything seems to be falling apart or is breaking. Ive taken the car in over 25 times for warrenty work and I still havent had the car to my self for a whole month. Is there any kind of law that tells Ford they have to replace my car because of how many problems ive had with it? I mean everything from the tranny, interior, drivetrain, now even the engine has had something defective. You name it its probably happend to me. It seems like it would almost be cheaper for the dealer to replace my car than to keep on fixing all the problems. I know a little about the lemon law where they have 3 times to fix it, but they always seem to fix it the 3rd time. Any suggestions would be great.
Just try to get the Lemon Law on it.. Tell them they can take their car and give you your money back or exchange for a brand new GT
Yea a new GT would be nice, I like the new ones and all but how have they been so far on their reliability?
Not quite sure honestly.. I know every new car has it's ups and downs, but i'm sure they should be fixed by now
Was the car made on a monday or friday? Its all warranty work, so its no cost to you, but damn if you havent had the car for a month, you deserve better.
Not sure when it was made. I can look though. Yes its all warrenty work which only bothers me because I have to drive and fill up a truck with a 497 CI big block. But the car has 31k so only 5k more left of the warrenty then im F**cked.
How strange, sounds like a real fluke to me. *knock on wood* but my GT has seen 64k miles and has been mechanically flawless. The first thing just broke a few months back... The darn sunvisor lock thing. Too easy to fix that =) Sounds like you've got yourself a nice, sour lemon. Definitely you need to speak with someone in the brass of the Ford dealership for sure.
Yes its definitly a lemon, if only i could get the ford dealer to squeeze the sour out of it i would be happy. Btw other than that i cant imagine me driving anything but a stang i absolutly love the car when it runs correctly.
Yeah, shouldn't have that many repairs on a newer car like that. Mine is starting to **** me off too. I bought it used with 20k miles...in the 9 months I've owned it, the brake reservoir leaked, the shifter leaked, and its made this horrible rattling noise. Been in the shop probably about 6 times now total....currently having surgery for 2 brand new cylinder heads. What tops the cake is Ford doesn't offer a loaner car. Now I can understand an occassional defective part or something not installed correctly...we're all human. But sometimes it just gets ridiculous and Ford expects us poor sap customers to suffer by having to arrange other transportation because their car is a piece of ****ing ****. Can you tell I'm a little annoyed too? BTW....what is wrong with your engine?
The engine started to misfire very badly... it would barely make it up this hill the other day. It sounds like it may be a malfunction with the computer or something. i really hope its not the engine.
Thats a logical assumtion. But honestly the car has been babied, never went to the track with it, raced a guy once. Thats about all the abuse its been through.
Do you do routine preventitive maintenance? Can you be more specific about the warranty work you have had done?
Yes all the maintenance has been done on it. The first thing that went wrong with it was the A/C compress was totally destroyed. That took them 3 times to fix. Then the TOB went out on me. Then the passenger seat squeeded so bad i could hear it over the music at full blast. They ordered a new seat frame but installed it wrong the seat would move 4 or 5 inches back and forth and rattled like heck. They ended up putting in a new seat because they said the other one was unrepairable. Then I had a ticking noise (thought it was the same thing as the 01 cobra heads) they found something loose in engine compartment and tightend it up. Then the ABS system went out on me, everytime I applied pressure to the brake the ABS system kicked in. They had to replaced the sensors. Then I brought it in again for the TOB and the lovely 1st to 2nd clunk that most of us with the TR3650 experiance. They put in a new bushing and pedal and told me the TOB was fine. Same with the clunk. Then the check engine light problems came into play.. brought it down 2 times now for the car bringing up the misfire code. They just reset the computer. Something happend to the flasher in the turn signal and it didnt work properly. They replaced the flasher and bulb. I also told them I want the clunk fixed. They refused to do so. These are just the ones i remember off the top of my head i could make a list all day long.
Ohh forgot to add another major one. At 15,000 miles I had a wierd whine coming from the tranny. They disasymbled it and found the bearings were faulty.
Yeah, those problems are a bit excessive. Some seem to be due to poor service tech skills and some are common problems but others are definitely outside the norm.
PM me with your vin if you don't miond me looking at the warrenty history of your car. Then I can give you advice BTW I blame ford for stuff liek this rather than the techs. Ford wants us to work for free example. ford will pay under warrenty .6 tenths of a hour to diag a a/c.. if you spend longer than .6 tenths you are not getting paid. I have spent days at times without pay tring to figure out hardcore problems. My dealer will try to make it up to me with gravy work afterwards, but to make it up I end up having to go in on saturday or staying untill midnight. Sad truth is ford gets what it pays for, and the customer suffers. BTW while they PIITB to the techs the reg. office employees are all driving around in brand new navigators on fords dime.
I lemon lawed my 96 Blazer. Front suspension kept rattleing and had the **** into 4 different Chevy dealers and none could figure it out. I contacted a local Lemon Law Lawyer and had a free consultation. They will take your case for free and if/when you win you don't have to give them a cut of your winnings...The Manufacturer pays them You need to open up the phone book and call a Lawyer imediately...even if you don't get a new replacement you can get a monetary settlement like i did. While my claim was being processed Chevy replaced my entire front end and fixed the problem. I was still awarded $7000 dollars for my time and aggrevation and the car wasn't declared a Lemon Legally so I traded it in the next day. MAKE THE CALL....DON'T WAIT!
