Warranty issues with Ford F350

[Slick Fork]

Thanks for the link to correct that.

Green: Of course I realize that nobody is having their arm twisted to buy an import. Good for you that you drive an Audi, they are fantastic cars and if one suited my lifestyle I would have no hesitation to buy one. Unfortunately an Audi coupe just won't pull my horse trailer

The only point that I was really trying to make is that the relentless domestic bashing gets really tiresome considering none of it is based on facts.

MSeepman summed up the state of the industry quite well so I won't rehash it yet again but at the end of the day the "cars that nobody wants" still account for over 75% of the new vehicle market in North America. The problems are with overpaid union workers, insane pensions and benefits, etc. Not the sales end. The imports are in just as much trouble but because they are not North American companies we don't seem to hear the news.

And like I mentioned before, the bailout is a loan, not a hand-out and the cost to taxpayers will be many times greater if any of the big 3 go into chapter 11 (which is re-structuring, not liquidation and would probably be better for the company but catastrophic for their workers)

[my2rotties]

I might drive a Toyota but I love domestic cars. The retro Challengers, Mustangs and Camaros make my heart race. I used to have muscle cars and race them illegally years ago. I know not a law abiding thing, but fun none the less.

I am upset about my truck not being warrantied, but I do not wish harm on the big three. Yes, I drive an import, but I would love a flex fuel Chevy Tahoe. The FJ was affordable and what I felt was practical for my needs at the time. I tend to keep a vehicle for longer then I should, and felt the Toyota was the truck for me.

My husband's F350 is the back bone of our company. We NEED it to haul tools, materials and sometimes a trailer for the aforementioned. We need a reliable truck because if we cannot get to a jobsite, we don't get paid. In the grand scheme of things I wish we could just get the truck fixed and warrantied, but that is not going to happen. Now we have to walk away from it, and hopefully Advantage ford will do as they promised... I will see over the week what is truth and what is fiction. All I know is we have to have a replacement for the F350 in one form or the other.

I cannot begin to imagine if AMerican auto makers disappeared. I don't care what anyone says... it would be a disaster for so many reasons.