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here for dodgy bodge jobs and good old fashioned suthrn engineering.
Maybe it is 'unexpected' that your brothers car HASN'T? That I can see.
Ya, I had to get my 96' ranger smoged a few years back, took it in guy hooked it up to the smog computer ran the program, came back and said the computer had no History, and to take it for a 100mi drive under varying condition, bring it back and he's finish. Kept it for a week, running it on the freeway and around town. Took it back. he hooked it up to the computer and said it still had no history (pretty sad right about now) took it to my mechanic, don't remember how long it took, but the electrical connection to the computer was making and breaking, erasing any history that had been stored. Remade the connection, and was good to go after another 100mi.
Whoa! This is very concerning. The scary part is that Ford will not provide a rental at no cost to the owner.
That exact same thing happened to me. my truck. It was in the shop for a week. They had to remove my batteries, including the hi voltage batteries. They replaced a few sensors. I’ve had my truck in the shop 14 times for Power train / 4 wheel drive failure. I told ford I wanted a different truck. It took about two weeks for Ford corporation to approve the buyback. I had more hoops jump through so I’m waiting for them to give me figure. Will update when I get an answer.
Ah man. I am so sorry about that! I understand your frustration. Have they reached out to Ford Techs yet? It was a bit similar for me, after a week the truck was just there with no update at all. They finally told me they were reaching out to Ford Techs and they would get back to me. After a couple business days, they were able to figure out what was wrong with my truck. For me, I was still able to turn it on after a bit and drive for a bit before the warnings came on and power output gradually went to 0.
My advice is not to wait on the "Ford Company" guy who responded to your post to help much. I got contacted by a similar person about a problem I had, and we exchanged emails a couple of times and nothing was done to help me.
Yes, the issue was fixed and I have been in my truck for almost two weeks now with no issues. The problem was a disconnected wire caused by the passenger airbag. They were able to rewire connection and insulate connection. I shared the service report.
Dang. My situation was similar but different. I was driving and all these warnings started flashing and was telling me to pull over. The power outage kept depleting. After a few minutes I was able to turn on and drive. But it only allowed me to drive a few minutes before it did the same thing. I was lucky to get it to my hotel after a few of these restarts.
Ford does provide loaners/rentals. However, they will not authorize it without a diagnosis. So, when a vehicle craps out and ends up at the dealer, they have to verify the problem before they can give you a loaner even if the vehicle had to be towed in.
Yes, I was told this as well but allegedly they were months out for having a loaner available. Had to rent a vehicle out of pocket for a few weeks.
That sucks, but sounds like a problem specific to that dealer. My dealer has an Enterprise agent on sight to provide rentals to clients.
