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You knew it was coming......For the most part you guys are spreading old wives tales. Ford has, and still is, making the best vehicles on the planet. No, they're not for everyone. There are still those few who still try to go into the contracting industry with their gm or dodge and repair them every other month, then whisper to eachother about their problems. Look around, contractors buy fords because their employees beat the heck out of them every day, they take it, & go back to work the next day with just routime maintenance. Go to any big job site and count them. Talk to any big contractor and they will tell you. gm and dodge won't take it and won't hold up. They try to switch every once in a while (just to pacify the automaker unions) by balancing their buying but they go back to ford.
Tell me I'm wrong.

Jerry


Indeed, I manage a fleet of over 500 vehicles, Mostly fords, our employees drive the wheels off of these things. Some are State police cruisers which get beaten within an inch of their lives on a daily basis. The incidence of Ford transmission failures is so rare within my fleet(unlike the early 90's e4ods which were junk)and seems to be related to the operator's willingness to continue to drive the vehicle long after the transmission lines begin to leak due to the rot caused by our extensive use of salt(yeah, right around 100,000 mi). The operators show up at my garage stating the vehicle has been leaving a spot of red stuff in the driveway and the transmission is slipping. Surprise, the fluid is off the stick. I build transmissions and have been working on them for years. Ford has about the same rate of recall as everyone else, they're certainly not making an inferior product. That said, if I owned a vehicle and had the trans fail after 4 years I probably wouldn't give them another shot unless they stepped up and made some kind of offer. Don't get me wrong, I get it. I've just never had a car that was that new so trans problems are expected after I buy your old car @ about 125,000 mi. That, and I can fix it myself.

Strangler