New Lawsuit targets Ford and Mach-E Safety over high voltage battery main contactor issue

[SWO]

Publicity. A faster real fix. And an unlikely order from the court to stop selling. That won’t happen because Ford has already taken that step. The added publicity may speed up the supply chain and make them try to save some face so we should not necessarily be opposed to it

jes sayin

And by publicity, you mean bad publicity...or defamation.

Any of the plaintiffs want to say that? I'm sure Ford's lawyers would like that. jes sayin

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[ripperAZ]

You can just do a buyback and lawyers don't have to make all the money while members of the suit get a pittance. You shouldn't need a lawyer to get your money back on a faulty vehicle.

You’re Correct but that’s not the world we live in. Actually in this market place it was possible to get rid of your damaged car and make some money until the point where Ford stop delivering them. Now that’s a little bit more difficult. Nobody knows that the lawsuits going to have any success but it does push forward along the process of reacting better than they have been

I think you can look up that Ford is perhaps being sued hundreds of times including other class action suits right now but this might be the most serious
In fact this isn’t even that unusual except the car was so highly lauded initially. Ford has enough lawyers on staff to take care of this as they do every other suit just like every other manufacturer…. but it may help

jes sayin

 

[SWO]

Curious who the other (I've seen Ben's videos) Youtuber is - can someone PM me?

 

[Regularmache]

You’re Correct but that’s not the world we live in. Actually in this market place it was possible to get rid of your damaged car and make some money until the point where Ford stop delivering them. Now that’s a little bit more difficult. Nobody knows that the lawsuits going to have any success but it does push forward along the process of reacting better than they have been

I think you can look up that Ford is perhaps being sued hundreds of times including other class action suits right now but this might be the most serious
In fact this isn’t even that unusual except the car was so highly lauded initially. Ford has enough lawyers on staff to take care of this as they do every other suit just like every other manufacturer…. but it may help

jes sayin

Quick search of "Automakers with lawsuits by number" comes up with
GM first with 260, then Chrysler and Toyota at 30, followed by Ford at 18. Have no idea who "ask Jerry" website is, offshoot of ask Jeeves? I purchased a 2020 Ford 3.0 Diesel in Platinum F150 and it had a defect that took to long to fix and the dealer took it back no questions. Ford did find the problem a little while after and corrected the affected vehicles.
I Never needed an attorney just clear communication that I wasn't comfortable keeping the truck and the refund was painless.
I would do the same thing with any vehicle including our MachE's but having one for 17 months just convinced us to buy a second one in this case as we love the vehicle.

 

[Blue highway]

looks to me like the plaintiffs want money for nothing.

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

looks to me like the plaintiffs want money for nothing.

maybe they are all Beverly Hillbillies.

 

[GrumblesTheDog]

looks to me like the plaintiffs want money for nothing.

Don't forget about those sweet, sweet YouTube views

 

[RickMachE]

Don't forget about those sweet, sweet YouTube views

Yup. This is money-grabbing from both the lawyers and the plaintiffs. Worst of our legal system on display.

 

[1969Camaro]

99.5% of the cars are not impacted.

 

[Southern92]

I don't care if the plaintiffs & lawyers split any proceeds from the case. I just want a car without a (potentially) serious defect!
Ford is obviously aware of this issue & doing something about it, but I ABSOLUTELY think Ford is doing cost analysis on replacing all potentially defective parts vs. dealing with individual instances when they occur. (The latter is UNSAT in my opinion)
I'm willing to give Ford more time to figure out how to fix this, but at some point I need Ford to put out some kind of plan!

 

[bristol16]

You will get very little out of it. Meanwhile, those three will take ~2/3 of any settlement, and the lawyer will get the other ~1/3. Class action is not the way to go, imho.

I was always under the impression that the purpose of a class action lawsuit is to hurt the entity being sued and not to make money? I’m sure some money will change hands, it always does, but it’s purpose is more to punish whoever/whatever is being sued or force a change like this one and not to make everyone associated with it rich.

 

[devmach-e]

“This situation is not like a broken tailight or rubber falling off a doorjamb, Desai said. "Those are things that happen all the time with recalls. We're talking about 50,000 cars that can just turn off unexpectedly. At that point, it's time for a lawsuit."”

Malfunctioning taillights might be considered eligible for a safety recall, but rubber falling off of a doorjamb is a warranty issue.

 

[dml105]

I was always under the impression that the purpose of a class action lawsuit is to hurt the entity being sued and not to make money? I’m sure some money will change hands, it always does, but it’s purpose is more to punish whoever/whatever is being sued or force a change like this one and not to make everyone associated with it rich.

There are good uses of class actions, for sure (think Erin Brockovich). But in practice, the lawyer running the CA still takes his 1/3, and the lead plaintiffs split most of the remaining 2/3. If there really are hundreds or thousands of plaintiffs, the split for the lead plaintiffs naturally is diminished. But if you're not a lead plaintiff (as in, you're someone clicking on that fb link), you're probably not getting much more than you would have when Ford fixes this problem.

It's telling that the lead plaintiffs are youtubers. They were easy for this lawyer to find, and it costs them almost nothing to participate.

So ask yourself: is THIS the lawyer you want representing your interests? Because his filing first blocks out more legitimate ones, should there be any.

 

[Efrain]

Pretty much a lawsuit by THREE individuals, two of which are YouTube influencers.
I doubt anything will come of this since the article is already stating some exhajerated information.

Tony

I bet they have not experienced any issues on the lawsuit.

 

[louibluey]

The first line of the attorney's interests on his Twitter page say early Tesla investor. I wonder if he is still heavily invested in Tesla? Not sure if he stands to personally gain financially from this legal action, by owning significant (?) value in Tesla stock (?) rises to a conflict of interest in this sort of case; it possibly could. Or, it could be the issue was considered and is not a problem.

https://twitter.com/desai_law?lang=en

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