In an effort to drive service business to dealerships, Ford has gone out of its way to produce vehicles that are electronically frail and difficult/expensive to maintain. Great for the dealer, not so hot for the consumer.
There are numerous places where a capacitor here or a zener diode there would make the electronics much more robust, but Ford would rather gouge the customer for maintenance than build a reliable, easy-to-maintain product. The problem for Ford is that most customers are smarter than that.
I agree with your suggestion to buy vehicles from other manufacturers. In my case, I've had imperfect but pretty good experience with Nissan. Ford's poor designs, quality problems, and attitude are no longer a factor for me.
Well, okay, I still have the '65 Mustang out in the barn. But it has just the right amount of computers in it: zero. And nothing gets fried just because I change the battery!
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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