Just need to vent...

With a 40 yrs plus background in the Auto repair industry, Ford are renowned for poorly designed parts failing. The door handles on the Aust X series between '79 and '84 was never sorted by Ford after 14 yrs, they just changed the body design and that required a different door handle. The Ford Capri that the sunroof guide failed and Ford simply ran out of replacement stock .... and that was that, the list goes on, but the mechanical issues with all late model ICE manufacturers says design engineers straight out of school are clueless when it comes to building engines and transmissions that last ...... Yet, people keep buying them and then complain that the vehicle spends more time at the manufacturers warranty repair shops than the time they actually get to drive their high priced lemon .....

T1 Terry

 

Man that Busy Forks is a pile, isn't it? Looks like someone were trying to ram contracts thru not to disappoint their relentlessly-vertical mgmt betters

So true, no one need even state it in print But will anyway

Had two Fords, that '78 E150 Chateau, and a '99 Escort. The best thing about the van, was its 351W... which like all the small-block Fords was unflappable even heavily abused, as most domestic V8s popular in '60s were. But the rest of that rat trap may as well have been Soviet produced, what a least-effort hunk of junk with impenetrable diagnosis for anything in the loom... including trblsht'g the ignition.

Worst thing Ford ever did to Mazda, were to abscond with its compacts and subcompacts, and attempt make them Fords -- was very weird to drive an Escort saloon with the handling verve of a Miata, but the 2-valve powerplant of a typical early-'80s domestic compact -- just awful at everything, esp being worked on (the later 4-valve 2.0L motor in higher trims and the Mk1 Focus, were much easier). Not to mention the crap interiors, esp seats and headliner. do not know what Australians got in that same timeframe but we got the usual Ford content-chiseled garbage in everything -- even luxury and performance models.