Ford will quietly notify dealers who have 2005 GT models in their inventory that they may not drive, demonstrate or sell the vehicles until two recalls are performed. According to a Ford memo, representatives from Ford will contact GT owners individually and instruct them “not to drive their vehicle under any circumstances.”
In the first of two recalls, Ford will inspect the fuel system of all GTs made from 13 October 2004 through 19 November 2004. Some of the Ford GTs may require the installation of a new fuel tank.
The second recall to be issued will be safety related due to defective suspension control arms. The safety recall will include all GTs made from JOB1 (30 June 2004) through 11 December 2004. According to a Ford memo, “Ford has identified a quality issue with the suspension control arms on the affected vehicles which may adversely affect vehicle handling in the event of a control arm fracture. In the event a customer does not seek service for the diminished handling concern, a crash potentially could occur.” Replacement parts should be available to dealers by 01 February 2005.
According to sources, Ford may issue a future recall to replace the rear engine exterior cowl cover due to alleged cracking issues. A BlueOvalNews article published on 07 September 2004 alleged that the cylinder heads on the GT may be defective, however, no such defects have been reported.
These recalls may garner (either fairly or unfairly) more negative media attention toward Ford for several reasons. First, the GT is supposed to represent Ford’s best build and quality efforts - this is Ford’s total image product and, second; Ford (like all domestic brands) is already under immense scrutiny for their product quality.
Ford has manufactured 470 GTs from 30 June 2004 to 11 December 2004 at the Wixom, Michigan Special Vehicle Center.
I did state facts, with the consumer reports column, when Sonny and I had the same arguement.
But here you go.
now it’s your turn whitey to show me facts about Ford’s new 2005 Lineup with reliability.
According to consumer reports, Ford is at middle of the road in quality vs VW’s poor lineup, pretty much their whole line is at the bottom. :blue:
alot of recalls are pointless to me, i do enough of them… personally i think engineers come up with some stupid reacalls so they keep there jobs. just my .02
unbiased opinions are greater than owners opinions
Although you wont get any arguements out of me… pretty much most of the VW owners I know and talk to say, the older VW’s, (typically 2002 and before) are built a lot better than the current VW’s of the past few years.
but from MY personal experience, the new 2005 Ford’s are built a lot better than most cars that I’VE experienced that were built in 2005. It is in my OPINION and that of JD Power and Associates that Ford has really stepped up their game this year, and has become a viable player in the quality and reliability market.
from what I have read (I do apologize, I do not have a scanned version of it, only on paper). That the current “Problems per 100 vehicles.” Ford came in with
104 Problems per 100 Vehicles. Which put them in 4th place. Toyota was #1 with 98 problems per 100 vehicles. Volkswagen was at 122 problems per 100 Vehicles. These are all 2005 numbers.
Now the Ford recall that was being talked about in the first post of this thread, was not of the Mustang GT, but of the Ford GT supercar. Which it only affected 417 cars. In my honest opinion… when you have a car rated at 550bhp, which really is churning out around 640bhp, shit is gonna break or go wrong.
The only vehicle VW has ever put out with any form of direct influence with that kind of power output was the Bugatti Veyron W16. Which was a W16 Quad Turbo engine, producing 1001bhp. Which has still yet to see a dealership showroom.
Now you may say the Lamborghini lineup had a VW influence, which is actually 100% incorrect, since that line is independantly ran by Lambo itself. It only receives VW funding.
Peiece of shit live axle overpriced faulty gas tank american pile of engineering embarrassment pile of dog stinky fucking shit!! stfu to all that oppose! U LOSE
the 2005 Mustang GT has a live axle, but it’s a 3 link setup with a panhard bar and torque arm. It will out handle pretty much every VW made at the moment, with the exception of the R32.
