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Marketing mainly to suburbanites who don't haul. It's a junk company.

doodlebugging 4y ago
It's pretty hard for me and maybe some others to take you seriously when you are knocking a product that sells well at a wide spread of price points and which will last decades if maintained properly. So, for the record, what do you personally drive and what manufacturers have produced vehicles you personally owned? What is your favorite vehicle, the one that you wish you had never sold and would buy again? How old are you and how long have you been driving? Where do you live?
- midislack 4y ago
  >decades LOL It's hard for me to take that seriously as a FORMER Ford owner.
  - doodlebugging 4y ago
    Of the eight vehicles I currently own, 5 of them are Fords, one is a Nissan, one is a Mazda, and the last is a Chevrolet. I own two Broncos - (the early Bronco needs a full resto since I completely wore it out in the first 325k miles), an F150 single cab (the only 2WD of the group), a Ranger, and an Explorer. With the exception of the early Bronco these are all daily drivers. I would have no qualms about taking them on a road trip of any length or duration. I have owned a 96 F250 Crew cab diesel that I traded years ago and instantly regretted since it was my only pickup at the time, and a 95 F150 supercab and 85 single cab F150. Our experiences obviously differ. I bought the early Bronco with ~100k miles on it and added ~235k before the drivetrain was worn out. The OBS Bronco, the F250 and the F150 I no longer own were all bought new. We have logged more than 550k miles on those three. The OBS Bronco is now 30 years old. I replaced the original transmission at 247k miles and the original engine at 273k miles. With suspension and drivetrain maintenance I recently completed it runs and drives like a new vehicle. I do the maintenance myself. It isn't hard. Parts are relatively cheap and widely available. It's too bad you hate Ford. I have had minor issues with the ones I've owned. Good luck with your Dodge. EDIT: Of the vehicles I've owned, the Nissan Pathfinder has probably held up the best. It has 260k miles on it over 21 years and the interior looks lightly used and has never had a part break or fail. The 90's Bronco and F-series trucks I have now and have owned did have broken plastic (door panels, dash bezel, console lids) usually from normal maintenance at dealerships where techs break something and never tell you. That's why I do my own work. Ford switched plastics to more flexible plastic in the 2000's and now things bend instead of breaking. Even if Ford did have shitty plastic interior parts they are still miles better than anything VW sold in the US. Their plastic is half the thickness of Ford plastic and ABS so it will break before bending. Their gussets are literally less than 1 mm by caliper measurements.

It's pretty hard for me and maybe some others to take you seriously when you are knocking a product that sells well at a wide spread of price points and which will last decades if maintained properly. So, for the record, what do you personally drive and what manufacturers have produced vehicles you personally owned? What is your favorite vehicle, the one that you wish you had never sold and would buy again? How old are you and how long have you been driving? Where do you live?

midislack 4y ago
>decades LOL It's hard for me to take that seriously as a FORMER Ford owner.
- doodlebugging 4y ago
  Of the eight vehicles I currently own, 5 of them are Fords, one is a Nissan, one is a Mazda, and the last is a Chevrolet. I own two Broncos - (the early Bronco needs a full resto since I completely wore it out in the first 325k miles), an F150 single cab (the only 2WD of the group), a Ranger, and an Explorer. With the exception of the early Bronco these are all daily drivers. I would have no qualms about taking them on a road trip of any length or duration. I have owned a 96 F250 Crew cab diesel that I traded years ago and instantly regretted since it was my only pickup at the time, and a 95 F150 supercab and 85 single cab F150. Our experiences obviously differ. I bought the early Bronco with ~100k miles on it and added ~235k before the drivetrain was worn out. The OBS Bronco, the F250 and the F150 I no longer own were all bought new. We have logged more than 550k miles on those three. The OBS Bronco is now 30 years old. I replaced the original transmission at 247k miles and the original engine at 273k miles. With suspension and drivetrain maintenance I recently completed it runs and drives like a new vehicle. I do the maintenance myself. It isn't hard. Parts are relatively cheap and widely available. It's too bad you hate Ford. I have had minor issues with the ones I've owned. Good luck with your Dodge. EDIT: Of the vehicles I've owned, the Nissan Pathfinder has probably held up the best. It has 260k miles on it over 21 years and the interior looks lightly used and has never had a part break or fail. The 90's Bronco and F-series trucks I have now and have owned did have broken plastic (door panels, dash bezel, console lids) usually from normal maintenance at dealerships where techs break something and never tell you. That's why I do my own work. Ford switched plastics to more flexible plastic in the 2000's and now things bend instead of breaking. Even if Ford did have shitty plastic interior parts they are still miles better than anything VW sold in the US. Their plastic is half the thickness of Ford plastic and ABS so it will break before bending. Their gussets are literally less than 1 mm by caliper measurements.