"O BOY", are you in trouble. For 1) you don't come on a ford enthusiast site and tell people to buy japanese, that can start a war with you at the center of it. 2) your not allowed to use the word jap on this forum, Ken finds it disrespectfull to the japanese people. I was shut down and kicked off for a couple of days for saying jap. 3) most of us here are loyal to ford and wouldn't hit a dog in the butt with a japanese vehicle. There's where the site gets it's name, "ford truck enthusiasts", not "japanese truck enthusiasts". Your playing with fire and could well get burnt. However, we thank you for your concern, but let it be noted that some of us would rather walk than buy japanese. Nothing against the japanese, it just we have a great selection of ford cars and trucks to choose from. If that fails we allways have GM and chrysler to stay in the american company family. Ford has provided for me my whole life with a good job for my father, great deals on thier quality vehicles, great medical as I was growing up, a pension for my dad and I still get X-plan. Japan has done nothing for me but take 2 of my uncles at peral harbor. The old saying goes, what have you done for me lately. Ford is still doing for our family. The only thing japan has done lately for us, is try and take our jobs and shut down the detroit 3. They have a woken the sleeping giant, ford has just begun to fight, it will be the battle of Midway all over again hee hee!!!!
Sorry about the abbreviated Japanese than. Just trying to get you guys worked up.
Sounds like you should have followed the old saying about fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I'd have left Ford or any other brand a lot sooner if every vehicle had that many problems.
Yes, I agree, but look at the problem list. There was no detail, like how many miles were on the vehicle. Every vehicle that I have owned has had minor problems, but I am "Hell" on wheels. I buy the vehicle to use, not sit on the drive and look pretty. I am very abusive on a vehicle and I can blow 100K miles on a vehicle in a year. I do maintain them but not according to the book. I do not see 3K oil changes, what a waste. We do not know how this poster drove these vehicle. I see a seat back. This is very rare and not wanting to tick the poster off, seats were not made to handle 350 pound people, especially a car like a Capri. The Taurus does have a brake problem. Mine still does but I figured out how to fix it. Yeah, it is a PITA, even my shop knows that when it comes in there for anything, first thing they do is crank down on the rear adjusters. If they don't it will be back.
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The politics need end now. Policies are one thing, administrations and either party is off limits except in the Club FTE section. Okay folks?
I totally agree. Politics belong in the "Club!"
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..Sounds good to me..
You made your ownself look a little ridiculous with this statement and then your next post.
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A little too late to say you think the genie should be left in the bottle after you get in the last word in, right?
Bite his butt Ken!
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This type of comment will get you in as much trouble as making a snide remark about a Ford vehicle. Remember where you are
And you said you wanted to rile someone up. Nope, you don't even want to think about going there. The "Site God" can be a mean and vicious higher being and when he turns his minions loose on you, you would rather go and slap your mama than face them.
Hey, "Site God!" Just picking on your butt. No one else will. Everybody else is "Fraid" of you. Not Me!
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Even though he planned the Pearl Harbor attack, Yamamoto was opposed to war with the US.
At Midway, the Japanese lost 4 fleet aircraft carriers (KAGA, AKAGI, SORYU, HIRYU) and one heavy cruiser (MIKUMA).
The US lost one carrier (YORKTOWN) and a destroyer (HAMMANN).
Six months after Pearl Harbor, the tide in the Pacific War had turned.[/quote]
In large part to the pioneering submarine sailors and thier many sacrifices did we eventually break thier backs and go on to victory!
Tim
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In large part to the pioneering submarine sailors and thier many sacrifices did we eventually break thier backs and go on to victory!
Tim
It wasn't until midyear 1943 that the subs began to make a difference.
The torpedoes were defective!
The US adopted a new torpedo just before the war began. It was tested EXACTLY once!
The problem was with the springs on the contacts, they were too stiff, and if the torpedo hit the target at an angle, it would not explode.
Submariners complained for over a year inre to the torpedoes, but the armchair admirals in Washington did nothing, blaming the subs skippers instead.
After over a year of bickering...Admiral Nimitz, the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) was fed up and ran his own test, firing torpedoes at a cliff face from all angles.
Only the torpedoes that hit square on exploded.
The torpedo firing mechanism springs were replaced, then the subs really began racking up kills.
btw: After the Battle of Midway ended, the USS NAUTILUS came across the burning Japanese carrrier KAGA. A spread of four torpedoes were fired, not one exploded.
The KAGA later sank, but it took torpedoes fired from a Japanese destroyer to do the trick.
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I've been a ford fan all my life however ford is making that harder and harder to be with the stuff they have been coming out with lately.
What does that mean? The stuff they have been coming out with lately is consistant with current market trends. It's more reliable than ever and more affordable than most.
I'm quite old fashioned when it comes to trucks. I like big chrome bumpers, chrome grills and manual locking hubs. I don't need my truck to have the road manners of a Fusion and to be as quiet as a Lincoln. All this BS about ride quality and 0-60 times makes me sick. That's not the true measure of a good truck. My old truck is a dog on the road but it will pull stumps all day. It rides like a truck but handles the road well and it's 21 years old. Will the post 1997 trucks be around that long? I hope so, time will tell. Will the SD's be around that long? Hell yeah!
Tim
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It wasn't until early in 1943 did the subs began to make a difference.
The torpedoes were defective!
The US adopted a new torpedo just before the war began. It was tested EXACTLY once!
The problem was with the springs on the contacts, they were too stiff, and if the torpedo hit the target at an angle, it would not explode.
Submariners complained for over a year inre to the torpedoes, but the armchair admirals in Washington did nothing, blaming the subs skippers instead.
After over a year of bickering...Admiral Nimitz, the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) was fed up and ran his own test, firing torpedoes at a cliff face from all angles.
Only the torpedoes that hit square on exploded.
The torpedo firing mechansim springs were replaced, then the subs really began racking up kills.
Your absolutely correct sir, I was a sub sailor for eight years prior to my eventual career change tot he Coast Guard. I love Naval history. The American submarine campaign failed miserably initially all the while the German U-boat campaign wreaked havoc around the globe. We eventually perfected our torpedoes and implemented many pieces of German submarine technology before we became completely effective. Even then, there were many flaws.
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What does that mean? The stuff they have been coming out with lately is consistant with current market trends. It's more reliable than ever and more affordable than most.
I'm quite old fashioned when it comes to trucks. I like big chrome bumpers, chrome grills and manual locking hubs. I don't need my truck to have the road manners of a Fusion and to be as quiet as a Lincoln. All this BS about ride quality and 0-60 times makes me sick. That's not the true measure of a good truck. My old truck is a dog on the road but it will pull stumps all day. It rides like a truck but handles the road well and it's 21 years old. Will the post 1997 trucks be around that long? I hope so, time will tell. Will the SD's be around that long? Hell yeah!
Tim
I have heard more problems than ever with the 6.0 diesel. Have to lift the cab to change plugs? Thats great. superduty front wheel bearings what?
Cheap cars with huge price tags. All their cars look the same, homely, sad, and cheap.
I have heard more problems than ever with the 6.0 diesel. Have to lift the cab to change plugs? Thats great. superduty front wheel bearings what?
Gosh, he must be talking about body plugs. I did not know that a 6.0 had plugs, other than glow plugs. And a vehicle carrying that much weight on the front does need the wheel bearings serviced every once in a while, especially a 4X4.
Cheap cars with huge price tags. All their cars look the same, homely, sad, and cheap.
The last three cars I bought from Ford did not appear to be cheap built. I have an '03 Taurus SE for a work with 250K of miles. I have wore its' butt out. It is still running strong and has only had general maintainence work on it. I had an '01 Vic in front of that. It was a SE Edition of the Interceptor. Damn Great Car. It now has over 400K of miles and a friend of mine is still driving it. I also hae an '01 F250 SD. No major problems other than those that are typical with a diesel. I know it needs a few glow plugs and at the moment I am suffering with a power problem with it, but without a garage and my medical condition, I cannot tear into it at the moment. I know that it is probably something stupid, like the harnesses under the valve covers for both problems. None of them had outrageous price tags, yes the Vic and Taurus do sorta look the same and none of them are built cheap. I have had no fit and finish problems with any of them. A good cleanup and all of them still look like new.
Hybrid explorer only gets 22mpg? LOL
I think that is pretty good at the moment with the Government Regs that are all over it. The vehicle is built to operate in all 50 states with no changes. If the Government would stop following California and their BS regs, I bet that hybrid would be getting closer to 40.
What has ford came out with lately that is good?
Oh, I would love to get my hands on a new Roush Tang with a Supercharged 5.8 and the six speed, all dressed in black with no chrome. Oh Yeah!
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What plugs would those be?
Glow plugs can be changed without lifting the cab.
A whole lot easier with the cab over your head though. You can sit on the tire and work instead of having to stand on your head, but then you have to recharge the A/C when finished.
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It's cool snowseeker, I just wanted to give you the heads up with Ken posting on here and all. I never really did understand the reasoning. The americans can be called yanks, the austrailians aussie's and the english britts, but you can't call the japanese japs. I watch old movies all the time and they do it, even Mc Cales navy. "O well", whatever. It's a PC world run a muck. I'm called a hillbilly all the time, but I take it with a sense of pride as I'm originally from W,Va.. Yeah, you can slap my wife, beat my kids, but don't touch my coon dog or bash fords ha ha. Speaking of new ford products, I just read about a test drive in the 2010 ford fusion hybrid on blue oval news. They had gotten 52 mpg combined city and highway driving, thats "outstanding". Between it's 2 engines, it makes 192 hp. Thats up there with the pirus, but the fusion looks a whole lot better and is certainly bigger. That car should help to keep ford out of the goverment welfare line.
NumberDummy, Yamamoto was shot out of the sky by a P-38. We broke the japanese code and found out that he would be flying to visit his troops and bush wacked him. I saw that on history channel last week as they were discussing the history of the P-38. They didn't say if it was the wind talkers that broke the code, but more than likely was.
The word titan doesn't bother me, it's when you put nissan in front of it that gets me riled ha ha.
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