$^@$& Ford!!!

[Thanatopsis]

Hey its not like the whole car blew up - he only needs a new engine.

 

[DaLeroy]

Bore the cylinder and put another piston in it!
Go the Fords!!! (Australian ones mainly) with big bastard 351's in em!

 

[SPAnDAU]

Well, my GF's dad works for a company that rebuids engines, so he's going to get me a good deal on a new engine, and do all the work for free.

Finally I get paid back for all of the time I've spent fixing his computers

 

[rudder]

Found
on
Russion
dump

Actually I like my ford ranger, has 110K miles, and the only major expenses were my new brakes.

 

[daveman]

Ford
Orders
Recall
Daily

 

[bigbootydaddy]

hehe my dad drivers a taurus, and even if he didnt

FORD SUCKS!!

and who cares if it can smoke any honda, at least hondas dont have to stop every block to get gas.

 

[colossus]

<< 120k is NOTHING. That's a POS in my opinion. Good cars go 180k+... >>



Well that's just a bright and intelligent thing to say. Obviosuly you know nothing of mechanics of wear on an engine. It aint the miles that count, but rather what kind of miles you drive. 60 miles a day sitting in rush hour 405 traffic is h*ll worse than 150 miles per day driving on a freeway at 70mph. Let me drive your car the way I push my car and I can guarantee I'll have the tranny dead in under 3K

I think most Ford owners are clueless as to maintenance and hence subject themselves to crap (no offense SPAnDAU). It's that average joe who does his oil change every 3K but fails to notice that the engine light goes off every day until smoke comes out.

Not to diminish the works of other car manufacturers. I know Honda builds fine cars. But if you torture them like most domestics are tortured then they'll show increased rates of failure (I've seen this exemplified by many of my friends who push their Hondas and Nissans with autos too hard).

I find it odd that somebody said the Ford Fairmont was a decent car. That was my first car and it truly was a POS. You know something is wrong when the car needs a tune-up to be driven off the lot when brand new (yeah, it was my dad's first car buy). We gave Ford another chance with 2 Tauri after that and not only have they saved our lives in many instances but done their job well.

We have a 1987 Taurus wagon with 120K on it that just had a tranny replacement on it. Still the best damn car I've ever had since it got me to UCLA every morning in 405 traffic (a feat most 10 year old cars could not handle). We obviously abused the car making it haul and tow stuff outside it's spec and the tranny finally failed last year.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've yet to have a problem on my 3 year old Contour SVT (and I floor that thing every time a ricer challenges me hehe). I'm still waiting for something to fail (and I know it will). It's a matter of time with the way I drive and the conditions in LA.

If Ford didn't give me wonderful CC rebates on my next car I would probably get an Accord for my dad. My main motive for Ford used to be their excellent safety record which Honda and Toyota now emphasing. Too bad the Maxima is still a death trap

Spamboy: pick up 3 friends in you Honda and I'll race you with my '87 wagon with 3 friends in it. We'll see who wins It's all about the torque baby! Plus wagons are good for ramming other cars off the road during civil disturbances ]

 

[OS]

<< I know Honda builds fine cars. But if you torture them like most domestics are tortured then they'll show increased rates of failure (I've seen this exemplified by many of my friends who push their Hondas and Nissans with autos too hard >>



Not mine. I beat my '89 accord into the ground, I'd redline it like a dozen times, hit 100+ a couple times. All in one day, usually for the 50 mile roundtrip drive. Atleast 5 times a week. Oh yeah, break the tires loose once or twice a week. Man that car took a freaking lot of abuse.

Stuff did fail, such as the power steering, brake cylinder, water pump. But the engine and transmission didn't blink. The car had 150k miles on it, driven as listed above for the last 70k miles of it's life. And the drivetrain never gave me a single problem. I think the biggest testament in all this is the fact that I flipped/totalled the car before the drivetrain gave out. My driving ability gave out before the drivetrain did.

Now, obviously this isn't representative of all hondas, but I'm still damn impressed

 

[jemcam]

You've got a 13 year old car that cost probably $10,000 or so when new. You never said how many miles were on it or how you've maintained it. Now you want to blame Ford?

I don't get it! Sh*t happens! Wait till you buy a termite ridden house you paid 200k for, or something really tragic like losing family member. Who are you going to blame then?

 

[Burn]

My '81 Ford F-100 has almost 300,000 kilometers on it. It has never had an engine rebuild. I hear the doomsday bells...lol

 

[ElFenix]

getting more than 6 years or 100,000 miles out of a car is pretty much money's worth, IMHO. my taurus' engine is fine, it rattles a bit. but the transmission... the car had it replaced before it was 3 years old, then it was recalled but ford refused to take it because it had been rebuilt, at least they paid for the rebuild after some bitching. i'm not sure if it got the new parts or the recalled parts in it. but i'm sure it didn't help that i bottomed the car out, breaking the engine bolts and knocking the transmission around in the process. and then i was getting a 30k mile service at midas, and they changed the frickin' transmission fluid! ford says DO NOT CHANGE FLUID right in the manual, so now it changes gears twice when i turn left from a stop or neutral.

 

[NovaTerra]

Fvcking
Out
Rageous
Disaster

Every ford I ever had left me stranded at least once. I never bought a ford, but had one forced on me more than once (company cars, and I married someone who owned one.)

Why is it that a lot of people think nothing of it when they hear about a Honda with 200,000 miles, but think it is a big deal when a domestic racks up that many?

 

[SPAnDAU]

jemcam, if you read my original post, you'll see that I was being sarcastic. I know it's a cheap car, and I don't drive it like an old lady so I knew it was bound to happen. I'm not b!tching about Ford's sucking, it just sucks when your car breaks.

 

[87horsepower]

It's too bad, you are not a little closer to me, I have an 88 2.3 out of a Mustang sitting in the shop. It has just over 100K miles but ran fine and had been well maintained. I had just put a new timing belt in it when the auto trans let go. I got the car to put a V8 in and thats what I decided to do when the trans broke.

 

[SPAnDAU]

That sucks. Oh well, my GF's dad is going to rebuild mine at his shop for the cost of replacement parts. Guess it's all going to work out in the end.

 

[87horsepower]

What really sucks is that you could have it for free if you could come get it out of my shop I probably could round you up another running 2.3 (87-93)as well. Oh well, if you ever decide to vistit Florida in a truck with spare room for an engine, let me know

 

[SPAnDAU]

Thanks for the offer, I'll be buying a new car in a few months. I'm going to keep the mustang to learn on so maybe having a spare engine might be a good idea.


*Crowd flees from a wrench weilding spandau*