This time, its a problem with the fuel system...

"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 article also says there could be a third recall in the future...

"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."

http://www.blueovalnews.com/2004/rec...gt.19dec04.htm

 

It's a great car...if you can get the fuel to the motor, if the heads don't break when you burn it, if the suspension doesn't give way when you put the power to the pavement and if the body panels don't crack apart.

Well worth the $100k+ mark ups.

 

Totally. Build up an old Volvo and whoop a Ford GT's ***



That would be the ultimate insult to anyone with an expensive car.

 

hope that'll bring down the stupid mark-up more.

 

I'm not surprised in the least.

Stay away from Ford's sports cars...

 

At least Ford is honest enough to recall its cars. Porsche should've recalled its cars for the RMS-leak, 2nd gear popout, and steering-fluid-engine-fire problems.

 

Yep, it's nice seeing a car manufacturer own up to a problem publicly and immediately address the situation. BMW and Porsche could learn some lessons about integrity from Ford. It seems many of the German car manufacturers are sticking to the "it's normal" party line until forced into fixing problems.

 

What a nightmare for Ford. They've only built a handfull of the GT's (their "image" car, no less) and they're starting to find all these catastrophic problems. My RMS can gush like the Exxon Valdez and it's still driveable, unlike the problems with the GT.

What happens if anyone actually puts some miles on a GT? Does it come with a matching flatbed to haul it back home? Granted, all cars have issues these days, but the GT is not exactly a technological tour de force. In the small batch and slow rate that they're building them, you'd think they could do a better job than this.

 

I usually expect less from limited production cars or products. The high production rate means they have fine tuned the process and quality control to achieve a certain yield.

Regardless, it's exactly what Ben said. It's about "owning up" to the problem that counts.

 

It's one thing to "own up" to operating issues and another to fix motors that won't run due to lack of fuel, suspensions that collapse, heads that crack and body panels that self destruct. It'll be interesting to see what Ford "owns up" to when customers actually drive the cars. Then we might be comparing apples-to-apples.

 

Yes. It is also about how many issues do they have to "own up" to in the end. May not be worth it if the car stays in the shop 6 months out of a year.

As I said, I really think porsche not advising its customers about a non-serviceable item like the expensive tranny during the warranty period is a copout. They seem to practice a Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and Don't Own Up policy.

 

You mean like the Pinto? Kaboom!
The Crown Victoria/Grand Marquis? (Police cars). Kaboom!
The Explorer? "No, it's the tires' fault."

 

I didn't say Ford had always owned up to their problems It's a good start though.

 

Well it appears Ford is at least learning from their mistakes! BTW, what has been the outcome of the product liability cases with respect to whether it was the tires or the Explorer? And fwiw, the Pinto fiasco was over three decades ago!!!

 

You know this isn't Billy Ford's baby and he has a tendency to scrap the ideas of the previous CEO. It will be interesting to see if they keep to the production schedule.