Posted by rustyfarmall on February 04, 2010 at 08:21:22 from (209.152.78.140):
In Reply to: OT-brakes fail posted by Tramway Guy on February 04, 2010 at 06:14:40:
jdemaris said: (quoted from post at 09:07:34 02/04/10) Every car company has had major screw-ups, regardless of what country it was built in. Just seems that people (along with the media) make more of a big deal about it and whine. Many recalls were done ad hoc, some voluntary, and some mandated without all the silly press coverage. The Ford "roll-over" SUVS and "bad" Firestone tires are a prime example of media hype.
Ford has a recall on 14 million cars and trucks right now due to the chance of them catching fire (my 1994 F250 is in the list).
Remember the "blow up" gas tanks in the Ford Pintos? Sudden gas pedal take off with Volkswagen-Audis in the 80s? Dead-on-the-road Chevy Vegas with aluminum-bore engines built like lawn mower engines? Or, pre 1982 one piece hood/cowls in Chevy/GMC pickups that alledgely cut off your head in certain collisions? The first Honda cars that literally fall apart?
Ford cars and pickups that catch fire due to the brake-switch have been in some sort of process of recall for years. My 94 is still on the recall list and I haven't fixed it yet. I brought it to a Ford dealer last summer and they refused to fix it. Now, I just got a letter direct from Ford asking me to LET them fix it.
I kind of hate to say it, but Toyota has been #1 with quality control for a very long time. Maybe now they getting a little slack, fat and lazy. But certainly now worse then any of the other makes. It was Japanese companies e.g. Toyota and Datsun that forced GM and Ford to start making better vehicles back in the late 70s, early 80s. In that regard, the foreign cars did us a favor.
On the subject of recalls, tractor companies have their problems as well. Deere has had some massive recalls over the years. Probably the biggest was when they had to recall every 2010 and 450 crawler ever made with the HL-R transmission - because people were getting killed from run-overs in neutral.
Let us NOT forget either that the introduction of the underpriced, Japanese made cars is what forced the U.S. companies lower their standards and use second rate materials in the first place, just to remain competitive. It works BOTH ways.
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