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I heard something that sounded like an electrical arc and I thought I was dreaming.
Then I saw blue lights and saw a police car. (was non-decaled)
Then I saw a blue Focus with the right front tire flat and when I looked closer, saw that both air bags deployed. It was a pre-2005 Focus. An older woman appeared to be the owner.
And it sounded like it just drifted to the right and the pole of one of the town lights, but the light was fine.
I thought I heard one of the folks talking about the wheel bearing going.
The wheel assembly is known to be flawed from the factory with early-gen Focuses!
So what you are really saying is that an older woman got into an accident you didn't see, and it is Ford's fault. Wow, that is a bit of a stretch isn't it? I once saw a Honda veer off the road and hit a tree, must be Honda's fault. Or the time I watched a Toyota Tundra hit a light pole at a mall, must be something wrong with their steering components as well huh?
wow, you go from "accident" to saying "ford f-ed up"
do you have any evidence to support your claim?
otherwise that logic is not sound.
There has been more than one report locally of the early Focuses having problems relating to the wheel assembly. When I was in New Hampshire, a woman staff reported bad wheel assembly and it being recalled. Then a while later, I got a report from another staff in Vermont I was working with not that long ago about the wheel falling off!
And the woman driving that car, I believe I heard her talking about a bad wheel bearing!
And the woman driving that car, I believe I heard her talking about a bad wheel bearing!
If she knew it was bad, she should have replaced it. That isn't Ford's fault, that is the fault of a stupid driver. Pre 2005, could easily have 100,000+ miles on it and be in need of one normally.
The other incidences you "recall" doesn't add up to a manufacturing defect. You sound like a typical domestic auto maker hater. Anything goes wrong it must be the companies fault and not due to poor maintenance.
There has been more than one report locally of the early Focuses having problems relating to the wheel assembly. When I was in New Hampshire, a woman staff reported bad wheel assembly and it being recalled. Then a while later, I got a report from another staff in Vermont I was working with not that long ago about the wheel falling off!
And the woman driving that car, I believe I heard her talking about a bad wheel bearing!
Anecdotal stuff is great but why not go the extra mile and do a little google leg work?
Tires generally don't fall off from manufacturing defects but rather due to the lug nuts not being put back on correctly after a rotation or change etc.
In my experience wheel bearings will become almost unbearably noisy before they even begin to heat up. I have never driven on one to complete destruction of the bearing, but I would expect it to develop play and any semi-competent driver would feel this in the steering if it's a front wheel bearing.
For whatever reason Vermonters are notorious for ignoring car maintenance, a VT car is usually not only rusty but a poor runner as well. I guess they are resigned to losing the car to the tin worm in less than 10 years, that and for some reason left-wing politics and technical acumen seldom reside in the same skull. These are of course generalizations, but in my limited experience they are more true than false.
You sound like a typical domestic auto maker hater.
Wrong. I'm into GM. (and Chrysler, sometimes)
I'm only P-ed about some models, it seems that problems are more likely to occur in econo-class models. (or the sub-$20,000 dollar segment) Ford seems to sometimes think that consumers wouldn't find out about QC F-ups in the econo-class segment, because of assuming that we are auto-illiterate.
Ford seems to have been taking advantage of soccer moms and grandmas.
Same with Chrysler, with late 1990s Caravans.
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