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What would be different? I imagine an MGW would make a world of difference in the shifter department.
SVTP Examines Early 2015 Mustang Quality Issues
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What would be different? I imagine an MGW would make a world of difference in the shifter department.
I was talking about the interior as a whole. Mine is very nice. I have several friends with '12-'14 GT's (7 to be exact, damn lol) and they all love the interior in my car.
As for the shifter, it's fine for regular driving but I don't like it for racing. It'll get swapped for an MGW. Then again, I hate ALL stock shifters for racing. I've swapped out the shifter in every manual car I've owned so it's nothing new and actually expected.
Yesterday I had another issue with my car. Everything was fine I shut the car off and ran in the store. I come out start the car and the radio won't come on. I shut the car off and back on and nothing. And hour later I call my ford dealer to set up a time to get it in, which that is another issue in its own, but while one the phone with the car off and nothing able to be on the radio just turns on by its self. Wonder if this is just a software issue?
Probably just had an update.
Most likely something to do with Sync. Once in my '12 Focus while on my way home from work the entire touch screen froze. I couldn't access anything. I pulled over and turned the car off and back on again and still nothing. I continued the drive home (~45 mins) and when I got there still nothing. I went back out to the car later on to mess with it and it came on and rebooted and started working fine. Never did it again.
Have you ever seen a car assembly line? Easiest work I've ever seen. I worked harder at the Taco Bell drive thru
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Seriously.
There's nothing hard about filling the washer fluid or tightening a few bolts. That's not hard work. Repetitive yes, hard no.
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I will put a very BIG Caveat on the following.... I am in No Way Endorsing foreign made or foreign owned car manufacturer's, anyone who knows me also knows my feelings on how they were allowed to ruin the American car companies. Now, with that being said.
These type of problems IMO are more of an engineering / manufacturing (the parts) than final assembly problem. I remember way back in the early to mid 90's when I worked in a Ford/Lincoln/Mazda dealership body shop. Even back then I would notice when a Mazda or other Foreign make came in for crash repair that the tolerances were very, very minimal compared to USA based stuff. For instance, if you ever look at a fender on one of those cars the bolt holding it on was a 6mm, and I bet the hole was no bigger than 6.5mm and these cars had near perfect gaps. No shims, no adjustment, nothing, just very tight tolerances. Does that mean they are better ?? I don't know the answer to that. But, with the public getting more and more fussy and the ability to share your results all over the world, our manufacturer's have to do a better job. Now, I'm off to check my '15...........:dw:
These type of problems IMO are more of an engineering / manufacturing (the parts) than final assembly problem. I remember way back in the early to mid 90's when I worked in a Ford/Lincoln/Mazda dealership body shop. Even back then I would notice when a Mazda or other Foreign make came in for crash repair that the tolerances were very, very minimal compared to USA based stuff. For instance, if you ever look at a fender on one of those cars the bolt holding it on was a 6mm, and I bet the hole was no bigger than 6.5mm and these cars had near perfect gaps. No shims, no adjustment, nothing, just very tight tolerances. Does that mean they are better ?? I don't know the answer to that. But, with the public getting more and more fussy and the ability to share your results all over the world, our manufacturer's have to do a better job. Now, I'm off to check my '15...........:dw:
I've been told by those in the know that the tolerances were tighter on the S-197 cars than the S550.
American car companies were on a downward spiral of their own making. You can thank the foreign car manufacturers for Domestic cars being as good as they are nowadays.
I shudder to think of what shit piles we would be driving if they didn't have to compete on a global level.
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