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Heres MY problems with Ford!!

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Beau

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sorry to hear about your troubles. i hate it when dealerships are dumbasses about repair work. but, at least you get to get into a new 04 cobra and drive it around
 

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Dan_Soprano said:
Well I just got the car back. The doors good now, and the trunk too. The pricks didn't wash it though. Oh well I would rather do that myself.
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yeah, you don't want them washing your car. that's a sure way to f*** up your paintjob.
 

Dan_Soprano

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1990StangLX said:
sorry to hear about your troubles. i hate it when dealerships are dumbasses about repair work. but, at least you get to get into a new 04 cobra and drive it around
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You speak the truth brother!
 
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AJsStang said:
remember that cars are cars, and there is no perfect one, except maybe in Italy. Especially American cars. They are crap. They wear out sooner, they break down more often, and are often more expensive to fix.
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and Ferrari's, Maserati's, and Lamborghini's don't???
 

COramprat

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AJsStang said:
Why do you think Mitsubishi offers the Best backed cars 10 year thing or whatever it is? Because they know their s**t won't break like its American counterparts.
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Sorry but I have to call you on that one...

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No car maker is going to be perfect but Mitsubishi is one of the worse.
 
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narongc73

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Never had problems with mine, and I've owned plenty of mustangs. You guys are just way too picky. It's a ford, don't expect it to be perfect or even close to perfect. It aint no lexus.
 

DJsZincGT

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narongc73 said:
Never had problems with mine, and I've owned plenty of mustangs. You guys are just way too picky. It's a ford, don't expect it to be perfect or even close to perfect. It aint no lexus.
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Lexus is just a fancy word for Toyota, and they are far from perfect. I know plenty of people who aren't satisified with theirs. When you pay $30,000+ for a car, you expect the body lines to match up period, I don't car if it's a dang Yugo. It's not that difficult to do it right the first time.
 

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DJsZincGT said:
Lexus is just a fancy word for Toyota, and they are far from perfect. I know plenty of people who aren't satisified with theirs. When you pay $30,000+ for a car, you expect the body lines to match up period, I don't car if it's a dang Yugo. It's not that difficult to do it right the first time.
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Agreed. I have had literally no issues with my GT since I bought it new in 1999. Now at 52,000+ miles and five years old, its still like new.
Oh I had a couple of small issues early on, but nothing that wasn't straightend out in 30 minutes at the dealer under warranty.
No creaks/rattles/misaligned body panels/nothing.
I also believe my GT was pulled from the line and rechecked. It has alot of grease pencil markings and such under the hood and underbody, that I've never seen on another Mustang.
-Jason
 
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tjm73

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DJsZincGT said:
I agree, if you pay $30,000+ for a car the body lines should match up. But, the guys in the service dept. were somewhat right too. The door should be absolutely no trouble for them to fix whatsoever. The trunk however is another story. There is zero, 0, zilch, nada adjustment on them. That's not the dealers fault...it's Ford's, and in that aspect they are right, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't fix it at Ford's expense.
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I had a 2000 V6 and the trunk was not right on it either. My brother and the bodyshop guy at my Dad's dealership went to adjust it and the same thing happened. WTF?!? No adjustment? So they got out the die grinder and elongated the holes on the trunk hinge. That gave a fair ammount of adjustment. And they were able to make it almost perfect. Problem solved.
 

DJsZincGT

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tjm73 said:
I had a 2000 V6 and the trunk was not right on it either. My brother and the bodyshop guy at my Dad's dealership went to adjust it and the same thing happened. WTF?!? No adjustment? So they got out the die grinder and elongated the holes on the trunk hinge. That gave a fair ammount of adjustment. And they were able to make it almost perfect. Problem solved.
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That's what I do when I'm doing custom work to cars. A lot of people by cheap aftermarket products that don't line up and there isn't enough adjustment in the stock piece to make it right. I just pull you the die grinder and go to it. Works 99% of the time.
 
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RedGTvert

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Maybe it is me, but I have never had any trouble with dealerships.

I have always found you sweet talk them, nod you head a lot in agreement, and nicely tell them what I need to make it right and it happens.

I was not there with you, but with all the WTF's and pricks, maybe they thought you weren't treating them right.

Granted, these things should have been this way, but I have seen cars costing more then twice what a Cobra cost have issues like yours.

Heck, my house which cost me over $350K had all sorts of stupid things wrong, but a little chit chat and nice words got everything done as I had expected.

Off my soapbox for now.
 

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DJsZincGT said:
I agree, if you pay $30,000+ for a car the body lines should match up. But, the guys in the service dept. were somewhat right too. The door should be absolutely no trouble for them to fix whatsoever. The trunk however is another story. There is zero, 0, zilch, nada adjustment on them. That's not the dealers fault...it's Ford's, and in that aspect they are right, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't fix it at Ford's expense.
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so what the hell are PDI techs for? Its their job and the prep guys to make sure the dealer doesnt take a car with defects. God i work for a BMW dealer as a PDI tech and if let something that big get by me i would be soooo gone!.....then again, its bmw were talking about here, they are a lot better at the quality and detail end of things than ford.
 
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both my moms 03 vert and my 04 gt, have the passanger doors that dont line up.
 

Dan_Soprano

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Figment said:
both my moms 03 vert and my 04 gt, have the passanger doors that dont line up.
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My buddies 03 10th annv. Cobra pass door is the same way.
 
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