Rant

[brandon_l1000]

This will probably piss someone off, but personally i don't care. I am a mechanic, I work on cars 5 days out of the week. Don't get me wrong i love vehicles and i love working on them. What i don't like is every day working on a dodge or a ford. It is all I see all day long. So My question is simple why can't dodge and ford build a vehicle that i don't know RUNS maybe. Then you look them up on the computer, and they have high reliability ratings. I work on these things everyday and i have never seen one that was reliable.

[MagicRat]

I am assuming you are joking, right?

If you aren't.......um...... it makes sense that you only see vehicles that need work. People are not going to send perfectly good cars to a mechanic.

If you want to see reliable Fords and Dodges, look around you as you drive.

[brandon_l1000]

Originally Posted by MagicRat

I am assuming you are joking, right?

If you aren't.......um...... it makes sense that you only see vehicles that need work. People are not going to send perfectly good cars to a mechanic.

If you want to see reliable Fords and Dodges, look around you as you drive.

ok you completely missed the point. my point is that out of all the car makers, the ones i work on the most are ford and dodge. Which means to me that ford and dodge are pieces of crap. On a daily basis i have to fix at least 1 of them. It wouldn't bother me if they had some age on them, but they don't we are talking about cars that aren't even 3 years old yet. By the way i do look around me and seems to me the only reliable fords i see are ummmm, no wait if they setting on the side of the road they aren't reliable so never mind.

[fredjacksonsan]

Errrr....where do you work? Is this a Chevy or Toyota promo?

There's a Mercedes tech on here, he only works on Mercedes so if he took the same point of view as you, he'd say that Mercedes suck and are unreliable. I guess I'm not getting your point.

But....it must be frustrating to always work on the same vehicles. Soon you'll be an expert though, if there's a consistent problem you'll know about it.

[brandon_l1000]

Originally Posted by fredjacksonsan

Errrr....where do you work? Is this a Chevy or Toyota promo?

There's a Mercedes tech on here, he only works on Mercedes so if he took the same point of view as you, he'd say that Mercedes suck and are unreliable. I guess I'm not getting your point.

But....it must be frustrating to always work on the same vehicles. Soon you'll be an expert though, if there's a consistent problem you'll know about it.

I wasn't promoting any vehicle over another lol. I am just a general mechanic, I work on anything that happens to role into the shop that day. I was Just pissed the day i wrote that. It just bugs me that people buy vehicles expecting them to run, and 3 months later they are setting in my shop with some stupid problem wrong with them. That isn't right and if i were a car maker (e.g. dodge and ford) i would be ashamed to put my name on one of them. I'm not saying they don't make good vehicles. I am saying that I end up fixing them more frequently than any other vehicle.

[betuaintgotthis]

Some of the problems i see on vehicles under 3 years old is quite shocking. I recently spoken to the owner of a Vauxhall Vivaro with 30k on the clock that had 4 injectors, a fuel pump and a few other things. Ok its got warranty but that does not last forever.
Then it was my job to fit 2 front lower suspension arm ball joints. Honestly those bottom ball joints couldnt last longer than 30k?.

[ericn1300]

Originally Posted by ethergeist

I agree with the rant - I own a ford.

Me too. I've heard that Henry Ford said "I'll give you the car for free if you buy the parts to fix it from me"

[HeavyJ]

I will work on anything and be happy, lets me pay the bills.