Fords electric vehicle problem
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Topic: Fords electric vehicle problem
Posted By: DougG
Subject: Fords electric vehicle problem
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2021 at 8:39pm
| Heard a little bit ago Ford customers buying new electric vehicle were really missing one thing - the gasoline smell - so they have a device that sells with the car to give you that fraquice- I swear ,,,, |
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Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2021 at 8:54pm
| How about a solo cup 1/2 full of gasoline in the cup holder. More realistic. 😳 |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2021 at 9:08pm
| Sounds like a great idea |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2021 at 9:11pm
i see the need for a new SCENT !!   ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2021 at 9:24pm
| was in Fremont NE today, they have an electric charging station in the parking lot of the mall there. i didn't stop to look it over so i don't know how much is charged to get charged! the lot spaces are painted puke green. |
Posted By: JTOOL
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2021 at 9:44pm
| @DougG; That doesn't surprise me. 15 or 20 years ago I was at GM training at about the time the EV idea was starting to really gain traction and the instructor told us then that in the test vehicles, customers complained that they missed the "sounds" of the engine/transmission. So GM's answer was to install a sound card or MP3 player or whatever it was "synched" with the accelerator pedal/shifter to mimic the sounds that they were used to. It's interesting how we are such creatures of habit and anything out of the ordinary we find disturbing or unseemly. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 4:48am
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How about a card rubbing against a set of spokes? ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 6:46am
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Silence is deadly....had a story on the radio about a guy who programmed his Tesla to say "Bruh" in that just right millennial half asleep careless way. Elon is weird, buy he has a sense of humor. Engine sounds aren't all good either. The V10 Viper sound was so hideous, they had to electronically and acoustically alter and enhance the sound to make it more pleasing. I'll stick with a V8 or 6 if I have to, nicely in the middle
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Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 7:13am
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Fords have "fake" engine noise, why not "fake" gasoline smell? Or even "fake" catalytic converter smell? Maybe the name circled on the grill will now be FAKE ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 8:42am
or you could drive a CHUBY and EVERYONE could make fun of you !  ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 6:40pm
Heard last night that Ford is recalling a
 TON of EXPLORES   !! |
DougG wrote:Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 6:53pm
How many is a  TON......................... they all have recalls. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 6:59pm
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 7:04pm
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If you want to read a real story, Google "GM Ignition Switch Law Suit Cluster Fk" .. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 7:16pm
I realize your a Ford guy, hell, even I drive one now  . You're making this into a topic that "might "need to go to the "outhouse" area with your insinuations . I just gave an HONEST reply to another Ford issue  .
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Posted By: dee_veloper
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 7:18pm
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The recall includes the Ford Explorer from 2013 to 2017, F-350 Super
Duty trucks from 2020 to 2021, and Lincoln Aviators from 2020 to 2021.
In total, the recall affects over 850,000 vehicles in the United States. https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/consumer-watch/ford-issues-3-recalls-affecting-more-than-850k-vehicles-after-injuries-reported/" rel="nofollow - https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/consumer-watch/ford-issues-3-recalls-affecting-more-than-850k-vehicles-after-injuries-reported/ ------------- Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude depends on who you are. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 7:41pm
OUCH !! And thanks for update to MY low ball # that I got off of google
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 8:05pm
Thats PEANUTS... Try 2.5 MILLION and SUED several times.. and STILL PAYING.
General Motors has agreed to pay $120 million to settle more claims that its deadly ignition-switch defect caused car owners economic harm, according to a settlement filing on Friday in New York City's U.S. District Court. . The settlement names 216 plaintiffs who had owned some of the https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15353429/gm-ignition-switch-review-complete-124-fatalities-274-injuries/" rel="nofollow - more than https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15353429/gm-ignition-switch-review-complete-124-fatalities-274-injuries/" rel="nofollow - 2.6 million cars with the defective ignition switches, along with other GM cars recalled in 2014 for faulty power steering and side airbags that would not deploy in a crash, according to the filing. It addresses economic harm due to resale, repairs, and other related losses due to the defect. It is unrelated to the https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15363034/gm-settling-with-ignition-switch-crash-victims-using-no-limit-fund-payouts-start-this-fall/" rel="nofollow - - fund that GM initiated in 2014 to pay for https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15353429/gm-ignition-switch-review-complete-124-fatalities-274-injuries/" rel="nofollow - 124 deaths and 275 injuries. It is also unrelated to a settlement in 2015 that paid $275 million for more than 1380 death and injury claims that were not part of the compensation fund. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 8:14pm
Like I said, you're sounding/acting more and more like a "guy I know" that got unemployed 6 months ago !! This is really a non-issue, you're making it one BTW, whatever happened with the Ford Pinto fiasco
 ?? There WAS a fatality within 16 miles of our farm back then . |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 8:24pm
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the TOPIC was electric trucks... YOU changed the topic to truck RECALLS. I remember a month back you pissing your panties when someone changed one of YOUR TOPICS in the discussion !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: dee_veloper
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2021 at 8:32pm
More lawsuits are coming against Ford and their ecoboost engine A big class-action lawsuit has been filed against Ford Motor company over its EcoBoost engine. Taking in cars produced from 2013 to 2019 it alleges engine coolant is leaking into cylinders. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/overheat-fail-fire-big-ford-ecoboost-class-action-lawsuit/ ------------- Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude depends on who you are. |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2021 at 7:05am
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Oh for the days when QUALITY was important not just numbers out the door and off the lot ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2021 at 8:16am
When was that, I mean, the period where cars were built with better quality than now? By who, and where?
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2021 at 8:21am
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YEP... when i was a kid it was a miracle if a motor or transmission ran 100,000 miles .. Remember grandpa saying that in the 1920s they would pull the oil pan on the cars and check main bearing clearance every year as part of "general maintenance"... Dad use to say "THEY DONT BUILD THEM LIKE THEY USE TO "................. YEP... they use to be junk !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2021 at 8:23am
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when your building 1000 cars PER HOUR it would be hard to get EVERYTHING right.
--in the 60s is was not uncommon to have a new car with a door gap of 1/8 inch on one side of the car and over 1/4 inch on the other side. --we bought a new Pontiac in 1965, and on the way home stopped at the hardware store and got a aluminum pan and a box of kitty litter to soak up the oil when the motor leaked. --my job was to replace the brakes on the pontiac wagon every 16,000 miles.. undersize as they were the same ones on the impalla. --dont even ask how long the nylon bias tires lasted !
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2021 at 10:41am
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Tires nowadays are AMAZING! Do the math on price /inflation/ buying power / miles lasted etc. I remember mom talking about how many spare tires they would take on a trip of any length. Everyone needed to know how to do a valve job. 4 cylinder cars....."Won't last. Has to make too many revs and each cylinder doing too much work, etc. " Well, I have a 4 cylinder car. I don't love it, but I was in a real crunch when I got it. Has 190,000 miles on it, still smooth and quiet, gets 31.5 mpg. Oh, and I've never done a valve job on it!
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Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2021 at 8:07pm
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Unless the toe links on Explorers has changed again, that recall is old news. We had ours done a few years ago. The 1.5 Ecoboost engine is garbage. The heads crack internally and externally. My professional opinion is that they totally screw the tech time wise for the repair. I also firmly believe Ford does not fully test and develop new engines/features/technologies anymore. They have to pay engineers to do that. Why do that when they can just use the customer for that. When the warranty claims mount, they just cut the time paid to the dealer and tech while in many situations they come up with the fix. Like I said, these are my observations/opinions over the years as a dealer tech... ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |