Short conversational clip from a YouTube episode by Chris Collins discussing Ford's recent quality problems and multiple safety recalls. Speakers note that in the first seven months of the year Ford issued 46 separate safety recalls covering 6.8 million vehicles, including a recall of about 49,000 electric Mustangs for overheating and recalls affecting Expeditions/Navigators that can catch fire while parked. The hosts joke that Ford service departments will be very busy as a result.
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46 separate safety recalls.
6.8 million vehicles.
About 49,000 electric Mustangs.
Expedition and Navigator models.
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At Ford, quality is now problem one.
Instead of quality is job one.
Quality is no longer job one. It's problem one. I thought that was genius. I loved it.
She clearly doesn't work for Ford.
No, I don't think that she's a fan right now. But, but they've been. I think we've reported this on previous episodes that there was a big recall that happened and now they've, they've, they've fallen down in some of their quality rankings. Expeditions navigators recalled because.
They sometimes start on fire when they're in park. I don't know why that would be an issue.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Let's see. We had the. Oh, another one, the Mustang, the electric Mustang. They recalled 49,000 of those because they also have a tendency to overheat and when the thing overheats. Yeah. So in the first seven months. This is going to blow you away. For seven months of the year, Ford has had 46 separate safety recalls on 6.8 million vehicles. Wow.
You know, there's, there's a silver lining to all of that.
Oh, I love it.
There's a big silver lining.
What's that?
Silver lining that Ford service departments are going to be busy.
Yeah. Yeah. You're gonna need to staff up a little bit. If you're a Ford store, if you're.
Running a Hyundai or a Kia service department, they don't break.
Well, they had some engine issues, but that's about it.
But for the most part.
Wow.
Ford. Ford's doing a good job of keeping. Keeping service departments busy.
Thank you for keeping us in the news. It's good stuff, but, man, I tell you what, you got to be really aware of that.
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