Well, I bought a 2001 LS V8 brand new. Never had a single problem in 50,000 miles, except for a rear window regulator taking a dump. Easy fix. Rear end howling?? Suspension clunks? My car was drum-tight, just traded it in 2 months ago with 52K on the odometer and got $18,500 trade on a deal where I was buying at dealer-invoice (meaning my trade value wasn't inflated). Sounds like your friend beats her machinery like hell, and the obsenely low trade value supports my theory.A friend of mine bought a 2000 LS new. Ever since day 1 there have been problems with it.
As soon as it got out of warranty, it seems the amount of problems has escalated. It's to the point where she hates driving her 4 year old car because everything is breaking on it. Stereo died, rear end started howling, suspension clunked, driver's seat motors died, windows didn't work, and other nagging things. Nothing majorly mechanical, but it was no fun to get into a basically new luxury car and see it falling apart. She took care of it as well, just little things were always going wrong.
She's about to soak $1500 into it just to fix it up enough to sell it....for probably a little over $10K
It's hit or miss really with any car. Not every car of every model has their problems, but you cant rule it out.
SVTdriver said:However (Generally Speaking). I won't be spending too much time sitting on my visors or headliner. If I am sitting on the headliner. Can someone roll me back over?
RICKS said:Sounds like your friend beats her machinery like hell, and the obsenely low trade value supports my theory.
Oil stang said:There focus had many recalls and before the focus came out they had the contour more recalls and now the have they have the new mustang.I'm detecting a pattern.I owned a contour svt and everything broke on it and i mean everything and after everything broke and got fixed the motor blew up at 57k and I didn't beat on the car it was just a P.O.S.If that car didn't break so much I would still have it.As far as warranties go you might not have to pay to get it fixed but its an inconvience to be carless with a payment every month
I would NEVER buy a honda.jadesville said:Then simply dont buy a mustang until 2010, drive a honda that has twice as many recalls as Ford.
Oil stang said:There focus had many recalls and before the focus came out they had the contour more recalls and now the have they have the new mustang.I'm detecting a pattern.I owned a contour svt and everything broke on it and i mean everything and after everything broke and got fixed the motor blew up at 57k and I didn't beat on the car it was just a P.O.S.If that car didn't break so much I would still have it.As far as warranties go you might not have to pay to get it fixed but its an inconvience to be carless with a payment every month
Oil stang said:There focus had many recalls and before the focus came out they had the contour more recalls and now the have they have the new mustang.I'm detecting a pattern.I owned a contour svt and everything broke on it and i mean everything and after everything broke and got fixed the motor blew up at 57k and I didn't beat on the car it was just a P.O.S.If that car didn't break so much I would still have it.As far as warranties go you might not have to pay to get it fixed but its an inconvience to be carless with a payment every month
Your knowledge of the automotive development and testing and manufacturing process is right on par with a 12 year old, as everything you say is pure naive assumption of things you seem to know little about. I don't know whether to pound my forehead against my desk, or laugh uncontrollably waiting for the next "gem" to be tickled from your keyboard... If you would ask questions in your posts, instead of making these utterly dumbfounding statements based in pure fantasy, maybe you'd learn a little here, instead of just being heckled.They don't go with the Cobra in 2005... Why??? You do testing on the GT first and after all the bad recall resolving... They lauch the Cobra or Shelby or ???
Obviously someone doesnt have common sense.CarrollShelby said:They don't go with the Cobra in 2005... Why??? You do testing on the GT first and after all the bad recall resolving... They lauch the Cobra or Shelby or ???
jadesville said:Obviously someone doesnt have common sense.
Why would you bring out a line of an upgraded mustang that would directly take sales away from the GT's? What bad recalls? are you saying that you can predict the future?
Would you like to compare it to Toyota or Honda?CarrollShelby said:NO... But I saw the past recall for first year production car Mustang and other's and it's not so good! To much dreammer here...
caffinecobra said:One of the '05 display stangs shows a ton of wear on the seat... is this an indication of the quality? Granted there's probably thousands of different people getting in and out... but a seat should stand up to that...
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I'm posting this in a seperate thread since some people consider the <a href="http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=498640" target="_blank">original thread</a> spam. lol.
PerformanceRed said:Better the seats getting ruined than the 4.6 liter engine. Although there's news out now stating that the new 2005 Mustang GT's all have defective engines. When will Ford get it right?
Get what right?PerformanceRed said:Better the seats getting ruined than the 4.6 liter engine. Although there's news out now stating that the new 2005 Mustang GT's all have defective engines. When will Ford get it right?
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