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Old 18-09-2014, 08:31 PM   #121
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Default Re: Ford stops GT Falcon sales over engine problem

I will say that if I'd paid the price being asked for those last GT's, I'd want the damn thing to be perfect. You'd be quite right to go off your tree when it starts making noises.
Similar to us when we bought the G6E...I started picking holes in several little "niggles", and a lot of people I work with just said "It's a Falcon, what do you expect, it's not a Rolls Royce".
Well, no...but it's "a Falcon" with a list price of fifty bloody grand...you would expect it to be screwed together with some competence...


Basically, the more you pay for something, especially a car, especially a prestige or limited run car, the more you will expect out of it. Quite rightly so too.
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Old 18-09-2014, 08:32 PM   #122
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Play it down all you guys like. It's cost me 100's of thousands of dollars for the last time I had a loose rubber on my bell end. Maybe you guys will be lucky.
classic.

i bet you didn't have the manufacturer offer to make sure it was installed correctly...
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Old 18-09-2014, 08:55 PM   #123
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I will say that if I'd paid the price being asked for those last GT's, I'd want the damn thing to be perfect. You'd be quite right to go off your tree when it starts making noises.
Similar to us when we bought the G6E...I started picking holes in several little "niggles", and a lot of people I work with just said "It's a Falcon, what do you expect, it's not a Rolls Royce".
Well, no...but it's "a Falcon" with a list price of fifty bloody grand...you would expect it to be screwed together with some competence...


Basically, the more you pay for something, especially a car, especially a prestige or limited run car, the more you will expect out of it. Quite rightly so too.
Things happen .... they are machines and things turn/push/open/shut/stop/go and sometimes they do the opposite to what they should.

When they do, they call it 'Warranty'. It is expected. No use jumping up and down about it.

Do Mercs offer no warranty because they are perfect? Nothing new should break ever the more you spend? Side splitting!

Prestige cars have no issues because they're expensive ..........



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Old 18-09-2014, 09:00 PM   #124
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Good to see tall poppy syndrome is alive and well. I love living in Australia, but FFS, the negativity! I'll be buying my FG X thanks, and the haters can just hate.
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Old 18-09-2014, 09:08 PM   #125
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Sadly it seems to be heading that way.





Make no mistake I'm not for defending the indefensible. And FoMoCo should be held to account. But this was a very minor glitch, and very well handled, but somehow it's all over forums and social media. It makes me wonder if it were not an orchestrated campaign.
I think the campaign was orchestrated to stop sales of Ford's last GT Falcon.

Only 3 problems with this:
1. The GTF was sold out before it went on sale (so there is no unordered stock to stop the sale of)
2. It's technically an FPV, not a Ford (does he call HSVs "Holdens")
3. It's not a GT Falcon. It's a GT......no Falcon
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Old 18-09-2014, 09:09 PM   #126
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All the hype before hand and now their heading back. Well, well, well, who would have thought
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All the hype before hand and now their heading back. Well, well, well, who would have thought
Comment not required. Its not a recall so actually no, they arent 'going back'. Who cares if it was a recall ...... they pick up a problem and fix it for you.

It is a non story.



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Old 18-09-2014, 09:17 PM   #128
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I think Dowling must read the forum and comes up with these articles (or at least some of the wording in them) just to spite his critics. 5 pages of discussion about a grommet, I'm sure he's in a room laughing somewhere.
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Old 18-09-2014, 09:18 PM   #129
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Comment not required. Its not a recall so actually no, they arent 'going back'. Who cares if it was a recall ...... they pick up a problem and fix it for you.

It is a non story.

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I've seen bigger issues. Ford and their dealer network have handled this one pretty well. They could have simply done an internal field campaign on a next service basis and told no customers but they took the time to ensure customers were told and the issue was rectified according to the customers circumstances.
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Enough eh?
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Old 18-09-2014, 09:26 PM   #132
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All this talk over one little grommet, Sheesh you guys wanna get a real life!

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Old 18-09-2014, 09:32 PM   #133
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Yep. Totally.



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