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Safety Recall 22S27 Rear Axle Bolt Fractures
- Thread starter TFocker
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Yeah I just read that. Not sure how I feel about that. It’s a bad design ford. You admitted that. If it breaks a second time you won’t cover it? I’m sure you could make a case but I don’t like that they limited number of repairs. But anyway, the odds of it happening to begin with are extremely rare so two times I guess is even more rare.
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Now if they repaired a first bolt break by installing a 4 bolt subframe, that'd be diferent.
If I broke the first bolt, my peace of mind would be with a new four bolt subframe. Because if I broke one, the chances are that even with an improved bolt, I’m going to break it again. Hoping I never have to take them up on their offer since it appears that based on the wording of the letter, that I’ll be very frustrated with what Ford is going to offer me as a resolution.
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Well they did say for “your peace of mind”.
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Would really like to know the backroom dealings that gave the ST the 3 bolt. Glad it doesn't concern me anymore.
To me, the 3 bolt situation means that I'll never tune it and that I'll be part of the 99.907% of owners who've never had a problem.
There’s definitely some ambiguity to the CSP imo. Initially when I read the letter I understood it as if it breaks, they will fix it. I read the faq and this point confused me. In short, a CSP is an available upgrade to a specific component or an extension of an existing warranty
When I had my Mazda there was another term for their version of “CSP”. It was a program for things that weren’t technically a recall but really should be fixed. You could request them to do if you brought it to their attention. And when reading that statement above, “available upgrade” it makes me wonder. Additionally, I don’t remember the letter stating the bolt must break first. Definitely ambiguous. However, I’m sure they require it to break first because why would it be the other way.
When I had my Mazda there was another term for their version of “CSP”. It was a program for things that weren’t technically a recall but really should be fixed. You could request them to do if you brought it to their attention. And when reading that statement above, “available upgrade” it makes me wonder. Additionally, I don’t remember the letter stating the bolt must break first. Definitely ambiguous. However, I’m sure they require it to break first because why would it be the other way.
Just for the heck of it, I called the phone number that they give in the letter to see what Ford was willing to say about the CSP portion but they have no additional information at this time. i’m going to say they actually do but don’t want to hear from a bunch of irate ST owners about the halfa$$ed way they are dealing with the issue.
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