A lot of people here will probably point their finger at me for this, and I no doubt will take some negligence blame, but none of it has anything to do with how much my dealer sucks.
For about six monthes now my "Ebrake" light has been on. Why hasn't it been fixed? Well, because according to my Ford dealer, nothing was wrong. Not only that, they told me that light was only associated with the ebrake sensor and it was simply malfunctioning. Something completely incorrect as it turns out. Sounds like something that should easily be fixed under warrenty right? Not a chance, not with me. I will never take my car in again given my history there. I had a lot of petty problems with the car, some a bit more serious than others, new from dealer, that had to be fixed under warrenty. Without going into too many details, my car has literally, every time, came back more screwed up than they got it. And they kept it for a needlessly long time and wasted a ton of my gas. From leather seat covers torn by the classic dumbass-wrench-in-backpocket, to putting four decent dents in my roof, to driving the crap out of it to tell me nothing was wrong, when clearly, there was, to taking out my radio and somehow breaking SOMETHING inside that makes it rattle, and seemingly thinking that making something look worse is actually making it better. There are many more things, but now I'm just ranting, and my real point is, I'm not gonna take it back there for things I can live with.
Such as a broken ebrake sensor.
Now, I guess I was a bit niave thinking this. As I know now, after total brake failure last night, I realized that I have been driving with only two brakes for six monthes. And now those finally gave out. Turns out, I had a brake line leak somewhere near my differential, and the brake fluid had finally sloshed around from the other compartment to the leaky one to complete failure. Now I have to bleed four brakes and see what I can do about the leak today, but really I'm just pissed at my dumbass dealer.
Ugh.
For about six monthes now my "Ebrake" light has been on. Why hasn't it been fixed? Well, because according to my Ford dealer, nothing was wrong. Not only that, they told me that light was only associated with the ebrake sensor and it was simply malfunctioning. Something completely incorrect as it turns out. Sounds like something that should easily be fixed under warrenty right? Not a chance, not with me. I will never take my car in again given my history there. I had a lot of petty problems with the car, some a bit more serious than others, new from dealer, that had to be fixed under warrenty. Without going into too many details, my car has literally, every time, came back more screwed up than they got it. And they kept it for a needlessly long time and wasted a ton of my gas. From leather seat covers torn by the classic dumbass-wrench-in-backpocket, to putting four decent dents in my roof, to driving the crap out of it to tell me nothing was wrong, when clearly, there was, to taking out my radio and somehow breaking SOMETHING inside that makes it rattle, and seemingly thinking that making something look worse is actually making it better. There are many more things, but now I'm just ranting, and my real point is, I'm not gonna take it back there for things I can live with.
Such as a broken ebrake sensor.
Now, I guess I was a bit niave thinking this. As I know now, after total brake failure last night, I realized that I have been driving with only two brakes for six monthes. And now those finally gave out. Turns out, I had a brake line leak somewhere near my differential, and the brake fluid had finally sloshed around from the other compartment to the leaky one to complete failure. Now I have to bleed four brakes and see what I can do about the leak today, but really I'm just pissed at my dumbass dealer.
Ugh.