Do Ford Executives ever read these posts (and do they even care)?

[Area51BS]

The y pay someone lower. Or they have a program that looks for key words. Regardless of the little quirks. I love what Ford built!

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[CarGuy]

Tommy Boy is very busy pondering how to lose more money on each electric vehicle.

 

[Muffin Top]

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This, exactly. He's telling us that we have to lower our expectations and get happy with Fiat 500 -sized EVs.


He's telling us it was a "mistake" to build F-150s and other SUVs, because it led us to believe these things are ok.


He wants to "educate" us about what we're supposed to want.

 

[bloominguez]

Until Ford values top quality, reliability and value over shareholder profits nothing would change even if they did read the forums…from the porch of their cottages on Mackinaw Island.

And by "Mackinaw Island," I'm sure you mean "Mackinac Island." (Sorry, I'm a Yooper)

 

[Aonarch]

Ford executives? Reading an online forum?

Do you even know what executives do?

Came back to quote this for truth.

Just so we are clear OP, the term Executive is used with C-Level employees.

 

[Reidt131]

Ford was never good when it comes to overall quality and QA out production line but recently things have gotten out of hand. I don’t think they care to read our concerns. They care about pushing as much steel as possible out their production lines

I do have to say though, QA across the auto industry as a whole has been at a steady decline from Tesla to Toyota, GM, etc.. which goes back to what I said about their top priority is pushing as much steel as possible then pin it on the dealers to repair. We all hate on dealers and their service depts (some dealers are def bad) but think about how much recalls, failures, etc.. they deal with on a daily basis. Dealers shouldn’t be dealing with this much failure or recall volumes especially cases like mismatching seats, loose hose lines, not properly bolted engines, leaky MICs, etc…

Side story: one of my buddies is an engineer at Tesla’s plant in Austin, he invited me to tour the plant back in Feb (I would die before driving a Tesla btw) and I was shocked when the tour guide proudly said “it takes only 90 seconds for our QA process” as they were showing us their QA process which consisted of 2 ppl checking for any dings on the sides and one person driving it out the production line. Takes them 90 second for QA which I consider a joke

That QA check explains why there is an entire industry around fixing fit finish issues on Teslas.

 

[Reidt131]

Tommy Boy is very busy pondering how to lose more money on each electric vehicle.

Livin' in an E-transit down by the river!

 

[Headsong]

Until Ford values top quality, reliability and value over shareholder profits nothing would change even if they did read the forums…from the porch of their cottages on Mackinaw Island.

Shareholder profits rule, always. The sad thing is that we're in a world where we all want what we want NOW. So shareholder pressure to produce profits NOW, even at the expense of later drives some really poor decisions. Those other values ultimately do drive those profits, if they're allowed to do so....but none of that excuses the total lack of communication, even to their dealers.

 

[tock13]

And by "Mackinaw Island," I'm sure you mean "Mackinac Island." (Sorry, I'm a Yooper)

Nope, meant Mackinaw. was born in Marquette and lived in Munising till I was an adult and nobody in my neck of the woods ever called it by its real name.

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