I switched off Ford for a daily driver when the Explorers went to the AWD grocery carrier model. I switched to a Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD LTD, but the seats are SO uncomfortable ! Mechanically, I had to get the whole top end of the motor replaced at 101,000 miles along with a host of other items...
The NY list is a little thin. This one happened last week. Nemer Ford- Queensbury NY. $20,000 markup on an ordered Bronco. Customers walked away. I was surprised not to see them on the Bad List here .
"Nemer Ford in Queensbury took my husbands...
To which I have replied to a few after they launch into their schpeil " well the SPORT is JUST LIKE a Bronco, just a little smaller ...( ROFL - REALLY ) .... " Look, I used to work on Subarus... and if I wanted to buy something that looked like an old school Forrester, I'd be inquiring at...
Sadly, those comp claims add up though, often resulting in much higher rates, or complete policy cancellation. It happened to my parents with their old 4x4 civic wagons. Those things ate rocks for breakfast !
I won’t lie. I live in the Adirondack Mountains and I run Nokian Norseman Studded Tires on separate rims on my 4wd Jeep Grand Cherokee LTD . After a hell ride down an ice covered mountain some years back, I won’t go without the studs anymore. We are prone to reg ice and black ice in the ADKs...
Yet the Jeep ostensibly hasn't their death wobble plagued suspension, or their elongated cereal box look in say ... I dunno, 13 years since the UNlimited body style came out. I don't know what you were expecting from the Ford Bronco design. As a mechanic who has worked on them from the 70's...