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On Dec 28, 10:17 am, wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:06:04 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:16 pm, "JimH" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in
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had my brand new F-150 Lariat Special Edition towed back from
Greenville RI to the dealer in Webster, MA because...

The brakes failed - as in F A I L E D - causing me to avoid a massive
collision by jumping a curb and heading into the pucker brush.

Then, to add insult to injury, when I restarted the engine after it
stalled out, a horrendous noise and oil smoke started to pour out
from
under the hood. Brand new engine to boot.

In a nut shell, this truck is a piece of s##t. This is the sixth
major failure in 20 thousand miles.

Sounds like operator error to me.

Ever consider a bicycle? ;-)

How in hell does a brake failure sound like operator error?

Who BOUGHT the piece of s##t? Sounds like operator error to me!- Hide
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How in the hell would anybody know that a certain vehicle will turn
out to be a lemon?

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Learning about other people's past experiences with a product is one way to
at least weigh the odds of getting a lame product. For instance, my 92
Taurus came with an interesting standard featu A fusible link covered by
what my mechanic called a "salt collector" - a hard plastic shroud which
funneled water and road salt right into the electrical connection, which was
located down near the starter motor. It was such an obviously bad design
that he and I decided it was a prank, not a mistake. It crippled my car one
day, which required towing. The materials to fix (redesign) the thing cost
about 38 cents.

Based on that, it's safe to assume Ford is still doing similar things with
their vehicles.