Ford Focuses/Fiestas to be bought back by Ford.
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My son's Focus is a 2017 and it's a manual so he's OK. IIRC, the years are 2011-2016
What trans could be used as a replacement? Think Ford will want to sell repurchased cars cheap to people who put another trans in? Will Ford do it themselves or is it too much trouble for a big corp?
This is the DPS-6 trans, BTW.
What trans could be used as a replacement? Think Ford will want to sell repurchased cars cheap to people who put another trans in? Will Ford do it themselves or is it too much trouble for a big corp?
This is the DPS-6 trans, BTW.
I'm pretty sure it was a unanimous agreement that these cars were piles of outright shit.
No way they fix them. They're going to the scrapheap to be added to the list of mistakes Ford produced.
No way they fix them. They're going to the scrapheap to be added to the list of mistakes Ford produced.
The stupid part is the Mazda 2 is the same chassis and uses a regular transmission. There were options during development where they could have abandoned it.
How to File a Buyback Claim in Ford's $30M+ Transmission Settlement
A recent federal ruling means certain Fiesta and Focus owners could be in for a sizable payday.
www.thedrive.com
-According to that you need to have had service done 4 times within the first 5 years or 60,000. I think I am going to miss out by under 3 months.
My Focus ST was solid in every way. I'd buy another one if I was in the market.
It seems that this goes on a lot in some companies and I've had it happen in a company I worked for.
You tell the top execs something isn't going to work, or we need to fix this now, or else there will be consequences, yet they ignore you. If you persist with your warnings, they label you as being difficult. Then when it does eventually fail, they panic and of course you take the blame because you weren't forceful enough in your convincing.
If I recall, many Ford engineers repeatedly warned management that these transmissions had problems and were a bad idea, even before they were sold in cars.
What a colossal fuckup, which could have been avoided.
You tell the top execs something isn't going to work, or we need to fix this now, or else there will be consequences, yet they ignore you. If you persist with your warnings, they label you as being difficult. Then when it does eventually fail, they panic and of course you take the blame because you weren't forceful enough in your convincing.
If I recall, many Ford engineers repeatedly warned management that these transmissions had problems and were a bad idea, even before they were sold in cars.
What a colossal fuckup, which could have been avoided.
It's a risk analysis and they failed it. They try to figure out what it costs to get ahead of the curve and fix it upfront vs. a future potential lawsuit and recall/repurchase/etc and then place percentages of certainty on each scenario coming true and then take the lesser of two evils.
Weren't these also having head gasket issues too
Thirdgen89GTA ??
I heard some stuff about either the 1.6L Turbo, or the 2.0L T, but never followed up. So don't know what the cause, spread, or fix was for those.It's a risk analysis and they failed it. They try to figure out what it costs to get ahead of the curve and fix it upfront vs. a future potential lawsuit and recall/repurchase/etc and then place percentages of certainty on each scenario coming true and then take the lesser of two evils.
Weren't these also having head gasket issues too
As for Risk Analysis, my company is failing that right now. Making a stupid ass decision to run ancient unsupported software with duct tape & bandaids.
We're all still here. We just didn't buy a shitty ass focus or fiesta with an auto.where's dem fordat
Whats good for GM should be good for Ferd too, right?
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