I assumed that this thread was started as a joke about the Chevy popup adds that started about a month ago. But you know how it goes when guys start talking about vehicles. Everyone has a story.
It's kinda hard to keep politics out of the discussion when politics take over the auto industry and even promote their brand over another like they did with the Toyota bashing and their plug-in toy cars.
Everyone has their own reasons for picking a particular brand or type of vehicle. My Dodge pickup was made in Mexico. I don't have a problem with Dodge over that because it was politics that drove them to make them there instead of the US. I have a problem with politicians, trade agreements, taxes and unions. GM bowed to union demands, went broke and we bailed them out. Same with Dodge.
I also boycott companys that promote agendas and ideologies that I don't agree with. If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. Sometimes you just have to take a stand even if all it does is make you feel better about yourself. If everyone did that we might be in better shape today......Maybe!
I won't buy GMs cause they cost more than Dodge or Ford. I won't buy Ford cause they burned me so bad back in '02/'03. I could not sue them because they falsified the computer history on a junker new truck I bought and lemon laws are too strict to go after them on that.
That and the fact that Ford doesn't have a diesel motor that can even compare to the Cummins. That's why they keep changing them. I had to find that out the hard way. I know others have had better experiences with Fords than I did, but I will never go back after what they put me through.
If anyone is interested in why I won't buy another Ford, you can read this post that I pasted here from another thread.
Re: Cummins vs Powerstroke
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I will never buy another Ford after my experience with a new 2002 7.3 Powerstroke. I GOT POWERSTROKED !! At about 15,000 miles the check engine light came on and I took it in to get it fixed. They kept it for 2wks to," fix a broken plug on a censor", they said. I ran out of gas out side of town in the late model Taurus loaner they gave me cause the fuel gauge was broke. After I got it back, the truck ran like crap and blew black smoke and I had to rev it up and slip the clutch to get it to move in the 1st of the 6 manual gears. They insulted me and told me I didn't know how to drive a diesel eventhough the General Manager of the dealership killed the motor twice just trying to get it going from a dead stop in 1st gear. They wouldn't do anything about it at the dealer so I took it somewhere else. Come to find out from the computer history on the truck that Ford had rebuilt the left side of the motor complete with new head, and everything on the left side. I don't know if I have ever been so angry in my life. I called Ford customer service and they and the dealer just blew me off. Inside of 30,000mi the clutch pedal linkage came apart while I was driving and the pedal fell on the floor. Had to pull over and yank it out of gear and call a tow truck. After they "fixed it", it was so hard to push down on the clutch it was blowing my knee out, painful. The alternator went out, call a tow truck. The shifter knob came off in my hand. The way the shifter is set up just stinks, hard to shift. I just hated that truck and dreaded driving it. I put up with it for about 2yrs and traded it in on a new Dodge 2500 Quad Cab in 2004. I LOVE THE CUMMINS. I only have 89,000 on the Dodge so far and it has never given me a problem. That little inline 6cyl doesn't warm up as fast as a V8 in the winter, but I can live with that. It averages 21 mpg, empty at 70mph. Much better than the Ford at 17 mpg. More torque and more horse power than the 7.3. '04 was the first year for the common rail fuel injection which makes it much more quiet and smoother running.
After I got the Dodge a couple of friends at work razzed me hard for getting a Dodge. They both had 7.3s. I sold the spare cam position censor I had to one of them for 110.00 so the next time his went out he would have one. Unlike the 1st time his went out. The other guy called me after I got home from work one day and asked me if I still had the censor cause he was stranded in traffic cause his went out. I had to go rescue him buy pulling it out of the motor and going to International so he could buy a new one for 120.00. Then go back and install it for him. They haven't razzed me since about driving a Dodge. And both of them have had to replace the censors at least once since then.
People used to compliment me on how pretty the truck was. It was,"Island Blue", in color, "OOOOOO", PRETTY! I used to tell them, it looks REALLY pretty going down the road..........ON A TOW TRUCK!!!
