Thought of the day.

I'm sure it's a better handler with the dampers, but I've already seen some head to head comparison on line and word is the SHO has it beat for straight up acceleration.
That's ok, I appreciate good handling cars.
And, an iteration of that SHO engine won Le Mans. It's no slouch.
 
My thought of the day is : Boy am I glad things finally got resolved and I mean................

As some of you would remember this past July I paid myself a treat and bought my first brand new truck, this one:
Plan on taking my retirement in a few years so heck why not ??



So once the truck was home I noticed that there was something wrong with the paint as the box and rest of the truck were not the same color, different shades of white like back was oxford white and the front tri-coat, like it should have been (Marc, 67again was home one day and seen this). So off to the dealer I went and it all started from there. (For some reason or another the difference was not very noticeable at the dealer but home.....holy crap).

FoMoCo's answer to this was: Paint the Box !! I refused, of course !!! and Dealer refused as well to paint a new truck !!
So after a few weeks of back and forth between the dealer and the company arguing over my issue the dealer decided to take things into their own hands and they ordered me the same color of truck (so they could switch the box over to mine) and this way they could avoid dealing with Ford itself. Two months later truck came in and boxes were switched but this time the opposite occurred as the front now appeared to be oxford white and the box tri-coat............shit !!!! Ended up that the whole truck had paint problems on assembly line.........quality assurance guy must have been drunk or just plain blind or stupid that day........

Well back to square one with dealer again in a fight with FoMoCo on who was to take ownership of this mess? Company was now saying: Paint the front of the truck, but like sales manager so wisely put it: which friggin' color of white do you want me to paint this, I have two trucks and three different shades of white, which one is the right one??. On my end I just got fed up and took the truck back to the dealer, gave them the keys and demanded a new truck and to my surprise, wow, they agreed !!! and on top of this they gave me a courtesy car for awhile then switched it over to a truck so I would not miss my hunting week.......great service there !!! and a good thing that I had them on my side or I would still be in this mess....

Now this issue went on and on with meeting after meeting but to make a very long story as short as I can (I wouldn't want to read four pages of this stuff either, lol).... well today with awesome support from "Vision Ford" I finally took delivery of this :



And let me tell you that I am finally happy as a pig in shit !!!!!!
 
With some of the stories of dealers we all hear about, this is great that they, took such good care of you :)
Glad it worked out. I do know with the new paint systems they use, sucks is a good day.
Most manufactures have paint quality problems now.
Water based, airborne paint process.
 
This dealer has been sold to Loundsbury Group (GM) a few years ago and they had promised that things (atmosphere was not very good there) would really change and they did just that, now it's a good feeling just to walk in as opposed to what it was before. This dealership was behind me 100% all the way but FoMoCo was another story, they do not support their customers and they really do not back up their dealers (in this case for sure and by what I have been hearing lately they don't take ownership of their mistakes most of the time), actually it felt like they just don't give a shit about their customers. The General Manager there, who also runs the GM dealership up here, was telling me that he finds it a lot easier to deal with GM than to deal with Ford when it comes to resolving issues but he says they have been having a lot of discussions and meetings about this lately and Ford is apparently aware and working at solving this problem. Really hope they do something because by what I have experienced their methods just plainly suck....for customers and for dealers alike !!!! But my hat goes off to Vision Ford.........they were just awesome with us !!
 
Awesome that the dealer stepped up and took care of you. Says a lot and you just don't see enough of that these days. People pay big bucks for vehicles and I don't think it's too much to ask for them to deliver it the way you want it....within reason of course lol. In this particular case it was pretty cut and dry...or so I thought. Paint doesn't match, fix it or find something else that works for the customer. Glad you got the outcome you wanted....and deserved!!
 
Glad you are happy. Good on you to be persistent with them. I like blue better than white any way, but what do I know, I am colour blind. How was hunting did your get a big buck. My son got a spike horn.
 
Nah no deer this year........again lol !!!!
Kinda spent a bit more time at the camp playing cards than sitting in the woods like I should have, ah well getting older I guess...lol
Congrats to your son for his kill, always a thrill and an adrenaline booster when you see something and even better when you get it.
 
It will Sat-Sunday here, but still looks like rain on the coast.
Temps are above 0. Trust me I watch this stuff closer than most.
I also have my own little system in place.
 
Beautiful Sat. maybe calm before storm, still looks like coast is safe, but it will be close.
Puttering around yard, maybe even clean garage today, before the final time the garage door closes :(
 
Well worked around the yard most of the day, cleaning stuff up.
Also working some plow stuff, pretty much ready.
Well at 2pm I had enough, garage door open and 7 degree's, hmmmmm

Start the beast up, listen to that sweet engine, wife pops head out door, we going for spin? she asks.
Well ok, short one :) 25 minutes, one last blast whooooohooooo ( like the new pavement too)

Small tear in my eye as I backed her in garage. Will have to find some time to clean her up
for winter hinbernation.
 
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