Has anybody gone back after FoMoCo for reimbursement on this recall?
The way I understand it, in 2002, they extended the warranties on the 94 3.8 engines to 100,000 miles and through the end of '02 (it might have been '01).
I had to replace the HG in the wife's mustang in Feb of '03 with only 72k miles on the clock. We never heard of the recall until last week, and when I went to the stealer they said;
"No deal. The recall was only through the end of that year or 100k or less miles. Those are the numbers FoMoCo decided was the acceptable life expectancy of the HG on that model and year car/engine." I had a hard time swallowing the year thing. I know that time will kill anything, but in a situation like this, yeah it was another year older, but I am still 28k under the mileage limit. The HG should not have failed, and you already admitted that there was a problem with them failing.
I had the job done at an independent mechanics shop, and the cost was near $1300, a fair chunk of change when one is unemployed and living off the wife's income.
Any advice anyone?
Anybody gone through this?
Maybe an address to take this up with FoMoCo?
Sticks
The way I understand it, in 2002, they extended the warranties on the 94 3.8 engines to 100,000 miles and through the end of '02 (it might have been '01).
I had to replace the HG in the wife's mustang in Feb of '03 with only 72k miles on the clock. We never heard of the recall until last week, and when I went to the stealer they said;
"No deal. The recall was only through the end of that year or 100k or less miles. Those are the numbers FoMoCo decided was the acceptable life expectancy of the HG on that model and year car/engine." I had a hard time swallowing the year thing. I know that time will kill anything, but in a situation like this, yeah it was another year older, but I am still 28k under the mileage limit. The HG should not have failed, and you already admitted that there was a problem with them failing.
I had the job done at an independent mechanics shop, and the cost was near $1300, a fair chunk of change when one is unemployed and living off the wife's income.
Any advice anyone?
Anybody gone through this?
Maybe an address to take this up with FoMoCo?
Sticks