StevenJ
09-06-2006, 02:09 PM
So here I am at the local Hollman Lincoln Mercury dealership getting a new set of KDW2s balanced a mounted. I'm walking through the showroom and I see a guy about two years younger than me walking around in a frenzy with spiky hair. Anyway, I go back to the service manager's office and I find that same guy there with a huge printed recall list. Appearently the poor bastard has a 01 Mercury Cougar V6 manual and had a complete shut down on the highway.
He claims that his alternator failed which led to an ABS module to lock up and almost spun out on I75. I feel sorry for this guy and the service manager, who shall remain nameless, was doing his best to calm this guy down. BTW, he was talkin to the same service guy I always go to. He was ranting a yelling saying the dealership should pay for the towing and everything and that they have to do to it and have to fix a laundry list of recalls for free. At first I felt really bad for the guy since he had soo many troubles and my car was just sitting there right out side the building and I told him about it and that I had no problems. Turns out the guy has 80,000+ miles on his car which means that it is way out of warranty. He said he had a ton of other problems on it too! He also said something about the fuel filter needing to be replaced because it runs right over the brake lines... I don't know.
He said the shifter knob is shot and he can't find a replacement knob and now he has to buy an all new gear shifter linkage... Something like that. Anyway, he said the car was more reliable than his 80's Jeep Cherroke. Anyway turns out the guy that does test drives and work for warranty work was out on vacation and they had him call up and pay for towing and that he has to settle the issue with Corporate Ford. I think he's screwed because he's soo far out of warranty but eh... Anyway, the KDW2s run nice but the delear only put 32 psi in them when I asked for 35, no bigge. Everything else is great. Too bad for the guy with the Cougar though. He said he's apart of a huge South Florida Cougar club and meets at the Tower Shopps so maybe I'll see him again when it is all fixed.
He claims that his alternator failed which led to an ABS module to lock up and almost spun out on I75. I feel sorry for this guy and the service manager, who shall remain nameless, was doing his best to calm this guy down. BTW, he was talkin to the same service guy I always go to. He was ranting a yelling saying the dealership should pay for the towing and everything and that they have to do to it and have to fix a laundry list of recalls for free. At first I felt really bad for the guy since he had soo many troubles and my car was just sitting there right out side the building and I told him about it and that I had no problems. Turns out the guy has 80,000+ miles on his car which means that it is way out of warranty. He said he had a ton of other problems on it too! He also said something about the fuel filter needing to be replaced because it runs right over the brake lines... I don't know.
He said the shifter knob is shot and he can't find a replacement knob and now he has to buy an all new gear shifter linkage... Something like that. Anyway, he said the car was more reliable than his 80's Jeep Cherroke. Anyway turns out the guy that does test drives and work for warranty work was out on vacation and they had him call up and pay for towing and that he has to settle the issue with Corporate Ford. I think he's screwed because he's soo far out of warranty but eh... Anyway, the KDW2s run nice but the delear only put 32 psi in them when I asked for 35, no bigge. Everything else is great. Too bad for the guy with the Cougar though. He said he's apart of a huge South Florida Cougar club and meets at the Tower Shopps so maybe I'll see him again when it is all fixed.