🚀 go-pugleaf

ThresholdMURPE etched this into electrons:

: I have owned two ford's in my lifetime. I sold one with 120k miles on it and 
: never had to take it in for service (other than oil changes, and such regular 
: maintenance). I own another ford, it has 20k miles, and has never had a single 
: problem or glitch of any kind.

So YOU'RE the bastard who's been taking over my good luck with vehicles!
::grin:: 

Seriously though, I have an 88' Ranger, with 115k miles on it. I bought it
with 76k miles on it. It had apparently had an accident, due to some body
work, but nothing, by signs, which should have caused all of the problems
I'm seeing.

In the past four years, I have gone through THREE complete sets of tires
(I've been told the body is slightly "off", likely from the fender bender,
so they wear heavily), two water pumps, one master cylinder, two fuel pumps
(Some rangers have two, one at the tank and one at the engine, and both of
mine have failed), a complete rear axle, an emergency fuel cutoff switch (it
shuts off the fuel pump if you're in an accident... trust me, it's no fun to
have it short when you're doing 50), a new driveshaft, the clutch, an AC
compressor, and I've got a leaky radiator hose. This isn't counting the pan
gasket in the vehicle which I let leak, because it would cost me $600 to
have the engine removed in order to get to it, and it doesn't hurt the
engine. All told, in four years, I've put probably four times into it in
repairs what I paid for it. 

If you ever catch me saying I'd buy a Ford vehicle again, have me committed.

Oh... my previous vehicle was a 1977 Toyota Corolla with over 300k miles on
it (It was owened by the manager of a pizza-delivery place for 5 years, and
I spent quite a bit of time delivering pizza in it as a full time job when I
was in my early college years.) I sold it because the differential needed to
be replaced. If I had the thing again, I'd count my blessings.

Ca-ching.

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: Mark Hazen                                    mhazen@fcs.uga.edu   
: Family & Consumer Sciences at UGA             Bitnet: mhazen@uga
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