Ford stops GT Falcon sales over engine problem

[cosworthfreak]

Originally Posted by kypez

Not sure if you've owned a Euro but I had the displeasure of owning an Audi TT and a Peugeot 206cc. Bought them for my sister but I maintained them. You have no idea what being treated like a cash machine is until you own one of them.

Absolutely! I still own a 206Gti, and have been maintaining it myself for years for the same reason. It's cost me a fraction of what it would cost to service/maintain through the local dealer, and I've had less problems (any time I'd let them near it, a new problem would appear on top of the old one).

A classic example are the lower control arms which regularly chewed out the bearing - $1000 a pair from the dealer + labour! Then there was the problem with the blinker stalks on the post 2000 models which came as a unit costing over $1200 + labour. The best thing about that is that the replacements were just as likely to fail in the short term. Beautiful!!