Green 94 5.0 said:yes, damn the automakers that make quality products. if ford wants me to buy another american product, they better get their act together. it amazes me how all these japanese automakers have been in business for a little better than 30 years and they have mastered the art of building a quality automobile, yet the jackasses over at ford have been building cars for more than 100 years and still cant get it right. as far as your comment about buying an american car even if the wheels fall of right off the lot, be my guest. that just proves how much of an ass you are. it is because of people with an attitude like yours, that allows companies like ford to build a mediocre automobile and get away with it year after year. you go ahead and keep buying fords and supporting a company with an unreliable product and i will enjoy the fact that with my next car, i wont have to make trips to the dealership for anything but oil changes. im through with ford and my monthly warranty trips. i love the performance the car has, but the fact that ford built it completely ruins everything.
first off, dont go assuming anything. my cobra is bone stock and has 4400 miles on it now. ive had it since mid august. it has been back to ford on more than one occasion for absolutely everything under the sun short of the tick and the stall (the only 2 problems the piece of junk doesnt have). i have never launched the car, never done a burnout, never gone to the track, and the only abuse the car sees is the occasional highway sprint through third and fourth gear. the car is my daily driver and willr emain that way. i have a heavily modified 94 gt that i beat the piss out of. i agree with the "pay to play" saying 100% and i completely disagree with the person that abuses the **** out of the car and expects the manufacturer to foot the bill when it breaks because he modified it to 500whp. i dont fall into that category. my throwout bearing was squealing like a pig at 600 miles. my car vibrated at 75mph+ from DAY 1. i bet the g35 coupe doesnt have build problems like that. wait a sec, didnt the g35 make car of the year for 2003? what a piece of crap.Yellow Horse said:Coming from a guy that posted a few weeks ago that all 03 owners were ass holes.
I think you have a bad attitude and you reaffirm that by calling me names. The problem is a lot of people would bitch if you hung them with a new rope. There is one guy on another board that is on his second 03 after having the first one lemoned. He had two sets of tires put on the first one, a new transmission, and a new engine. Then when he got his second it was one thing after another and had several itmes addressed on it. The dealer told him not to come back. I don't blame them. He has posted post after post about racing and how he beats the **** out of the car. He was bitching the other day about not getting 6k miles out of a set of tires. Good grief. Now he's trying to get it lemoned. I have a friend that is the same way.
There are recalls on imports all the time. MT just released the top 20 selling vehicles and I think only four imports made the list. There sure are a **** load of people buying US autos. Ford had 4-5 in the top ten.
My suggestion to you is to put it up for sale and buy an import if that'll make you happy.
Mine has had a TOB in it. It has 30k miles on it. It has worn out two sets of MT ET Streets and is on a third set. I beat the mortal piss out of it and popped a HS the other night that I replaced myself at my expense unlike other ass holes that expect Ford to pay for a broken HS. It's making 500 rwhp SAE and it runs like a Rolex. Best car by far I've owned including a new vette that I made a mistake and bought a few years ago.
Green 94 5.0--I wholeheartedly agree with your comments about Ford and Mr. "Tough Guy" American Yellow Horse-->you idiot--your employees buy Toyota because they want quality and reliability, not some unreliable bucket of bolts.
People who buy "American" to support the country are a dying breed, it just doesn't make sense to do it anymore. Maybe once they've mostly died off, Ford will realize they HAVE to build quality because nobody's buying their junk anymore.
Green 94 5.0 said:well, i know a tech at a local dealership and all of my problems have been taken care of without any hassle. if the car is on its second throwout bearing with 4300 miles on the odometer, and low and behold, its squealing again. i will be on my third t/o bearing next week. if i have any issues after that, im going to start the lemon process. this will be the last ford i will ever own (aside from my 94 gt).
nope. throwout bearings going south is a common problem on the cobra. it has nothing at all to do with my driving habits.92gt5.0 said:Sounds like your probably riding the clutch
you seriously need anger management buddy. talking about beating someones ass because they dont like the crap that american automakers are rolling off the assembly line is absolutely ridiculous. as for your comment comparing the tundra to the f150, i will agree with you. ford trucks are on a totally different level, and ford actually has gotten that right. in closing, i just love your prediction of me working at wendy's because i wont buy an american car again. just to let you know, i make $22 an hour in a tech oriented job where i basically get paid to sit on my ass and surf the web all day. aside from making $16.35 an hour over minimum wage, i also work about 65 hours a week with full benefits. you can take your generalized prediction and shove it where the sun doesnt shine. go take a xanax and freaking chill out.Yellow Horse said:People who buy American are a dying breed? Check the list above ace. It doesn't back that up. You think I'm a tough guy. With your attitude why don't you walk up to a United Autoworkers meeting or a picket line and shoot your big mouth off and see what happens. When you start friggin with people's lives and standard of living they will kick the **** out of you. Same with me. But, what can you expect from someone from a state that elects a cowardly manslaughterer like Ted Kennedy every six years and two phags to congress like Barney "The phag"
Franks and Daniel "I sux dix" Stubbs every two years although "I sux dix" retired. Must be the water up there. Barney Phag got reprimanded for his phag lover that he met through the want ads turning his tax payer paid apartment into a gay bordello. And MA residents keep sending him back to DC.
As far as this ******* and his buddies here buying Toyota because it's better quality, a Tundra is not a good a truck as an F-Series. People that buy trucks to use in their jobs buy Fords or Chevy's. Not Toyotas. The jerk just bought a Sequoia for his wife. I think it's a Sequoia. It's a toyota anyway. The hillarious thing is my plant is being shutdown next April because of *******s like Mr. Toyo. Here's a guy that has the least repsect in our plant. The main reason we are being shutdown and the work transferred to other plants is conversion costs. Since I doubt you've ever worked in a manufacturing plant especially one that employs 15,000 people and over 500 like at the plant I work, I'll enlighten you. Conversion cost is the cost per hour for every hour of production produced. For the last 3-4 years ours has been over double the budget and many times over triple. That my friends is plant closing numbers. How does conversion cost get so high. People not doing their jobs like Mr. Toyo. Here's a guy that worked enough man hours at the end of June to make a full year on a straight 40 hours per week. There are 2080 hours in a year on a straight 40/week. When you figure in his overtime at 1.5 hours per hour worked he had over 2080 hours by the end of June. Several of his buddies did the same thing. These guys more than doubled their salaries every year. What do they have in common. All are know for low production, dishonesty and out to ***** the compnay up the ass as much as possible. And now I'm out of a job. You want me to be sympathetic to jerks that put people out of a job. Especially jerks that buy toyos and bitch when Home Depot, Coke or Walmart buys from our competitor. That is being two-faced at it's finest. It really doesn't bother me anyway. As a degreed engineer there are jobs by the dozen out there waiting on me. It doesn't bother me one bit. I was ready to leave anyway. A lot of people are losing good paying jobs and will take anywhere from a 50-60% cut in pay in this area.
Just keep supporting foreign companies. I know more about trade and manufacturing than you'll ever know. With the introdution of manufacturing processes, design and the use of computer systems, we pulled ahead of yapan in manufacturing in the US through the 80's and 90's. We are slipping again and this time we'll be lucky to catch up. When the European Union gets it's act together, the US is going to get it up the ass. The French and Germans are looking to burry us. I have already seen the trend. We'll allow them to dump unlimited product on our shores while ours is restricted and more and more stupid punks will be running down and sucking it up. The result, 70 percent of the jobs in the US in the near future will be service oriented jobs paying a buck over minimum. Luckily I have positioned myself to start my own business in two years where I will have control of my life, my future and my earning potential. When you end up working at Wendys or maybe pushing a service cart at the local HoJo or customer service for DTV, remember what lead to all that.
Buy American and support America and companies that invest in America.
Yellow Horse said:This is a site for Ford and SVT fans. Don't expect a warm fuzzy reception when you start flying off at Ford. The better place to do that along with Gunsfan is www.blueovalnews.com where they love to sit back and whine. Hell, Robert Lane would love to have you since he is the biggest Ford basher in America.
gunsfan said:In any event, keep buying your garbage and your Fords "even if the wheels fell off at the dealer"---you stupid dikface--that's how stupid you and alot of American's are. They'll keep going back buying junk just because it's "American". The smart ones hop in a 4runner or Pathfinder to find 100,000 miles of trouble free driving.
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I don't consider any of my Fords and GM's Garbage. Im not smart, because I dont drive a 4runner or pathfinder Im sure they are fine trucks, but so is my 5.0 Mountaineer.
trust me. if i could sell it without going upside down by a few grand, i would. obviously you havent had any problems with yours. let me tell you, you are lucky. if you were in my shoes, you would have the same opinion. do you have anything done to it?silverbulletGT said:GREEN 94 5.0
How about selling the damn car and calling it a day? I live in N. Miami Beach and people trip out every time I bring it out. Go to Towers and put a For Sale sign on it. But please dont say the 03's are pieces of ****!
silverbulletGT said:Ive had my 03 about a week and had one warranty issue the was fixed with no prob. EXCEPT when I picked up my car it was down a quarter tank of gas and had 20+ miles on it!? WTF!!!! And my radio station was changed, some ass was cruising around in my car!!!!! Any 03 owners know that to use that much gas you have to pound on it. The manager was gone so I couldn't do anything about it. Needless to say I will never bring my car there again.
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