Lloyd_E
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2003
- Messages
- 1,498
- Location
- South Shore Nova Scotia Canada
- Tractor
- 2008 Kioti DK 45 sc
Why I may never buy a FORD again and "buy local" sometimes doesn't work: Replaced alternator(Ford product - purchased from Ford dealership in Cape Brenton when car broke down last year) failed within 10 months. Cape Breton mechanic sent his repair bill plus ford invoice for product and local dealer will not honour warranty... interesting conversation about purchasing 2 vehicles($75,000 over 4 year period) there and having repair work on three vehicles at one point did not change their attitude... kicker was when he said he doesn't care and hung-up... Well when you loose market share and sales fall... you will care!!!!!
My argument was that is was a Ford product going on a Ford vehicle. It shouldn't matter if Ford did the actual repair...
This local dealership played this game with me before: had an issues with belt pulley being replaced 3 times. I was commuting at the time and the warranty was almost up - two months left. Had three workers including owner discussing whether it would be repaired under 60,000 kmh warranty or not... one of the reasons why I didn't return there for service. Instead of saying Yes, we repaired it twice before and Yes, you have warranty left don't worry about it... you had to fight to get it fixed... duh...
Rant off!
My argument was that is was a Ford product going on a Ford vehicle. It shouldn't matter if Ford did the actual repair...
This local dealership played this game with me before: had an issues with belt pulley being replaced 3 times. I was commuting at the time and the warranty was almost up - two months left. Had three workers including owner discussing whether it would be repaired under 60,000 kmh warranty or not... one of the reasons why I didn't return there for service. Instead of saying Yes, we repaired it twice before and Yes, you have warranty left don't worry about it... you had to fight to get it fixed... duh...
Rant off!