Ford investors take one in the nuts today

[GordoJay]

Down 17% today. Wow.

 

[HighwaySentinel]

Tends to happen when it's reported that warranty claims rose by 800 million dollars in the second quarter and earnings per share are adjusted to 47 cents per share when projected was 67 cents per share.

 

[downforce137]

time to buy

 

[EricM]

Bought mine back in 2017 or so when it was around $3 to $4 a share. Still at $11.30 today.

 

[Bubbasuwannee]

Tends to happen when it's reported that warranty claims rose by 800 million dollars in the second quarter and earnings per share are adjusted to 47 cents per share when projected was 67 cents per share.

Those numbers aren't surprising. My wife's Ford has been in the shop close to 7 months out of the past 9, under powertrain warranty for transmission failures. Had it back for month or so and had another failure. Ford refuses to change the transmission, but rather wants to band aid it to get us out the door. It's going to be our last Ford for the foreseeable future after buying mostly Fords for the past 30 years. We've had multiple cases opened up, written letters, got the regional rep involved... abysmal customer service.

 

[EricM]

Those numbers aren't surprising. My wife's Ford has been in the shop close to 7 months out of the past 9, under powertrain warranty for transmission failures. Had it back for month or so and had another failure. Ford refuses to change the transmission, but rather wants to band aid it to get us out the door. It's going to be our last Ford for the foreseeable future after buying mostly Fords for the past 30 years. We've had multiple cases opened up, written letters, got the regional rep involved... abysmal customer service.

Run the trans without fluid until it fully grenades and then refill it.

Wait, no- that's fraud, don't do that.

 

[CruiserClass]

Run the trans without fluid until it fully grenades and then refill it.

Wait, no- that's fraud, don't do that.

Outside my lane here, but wouldn't a fluid analysis and teardown show that you'd done that?

 

[EricM]

I doubt Ford would even look at it. They don't have time to be pulling apart broken shit and seeing why it broke. It'd go back to the rebuilder as a core and that'd be that. Since he's not going to do that, we don't need to speculate anyways.

Maybe, if he is lucky, one of those problematic trans cooling line quick connects will break and it will lose all the fluid while driving.

 

[Bubbasuwannee]

Run the trans without fluid until it fully grenades and then refill it.

Wait, no- that's fraud, don't do that.

That would definitely do it . I’ve been praying it just catches on fire at the shop….problem solved.

 

[Booth9999]

Outside my lane here, but wouldn't a fluid analysis and teardown show that you'd done that?

Hard part is filling it up before the tow truck shows up on the side of the road.