jbooth
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- First Name
- Jonathan
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- Sep 6, 2021
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- Location
- Illinois
- Vehicles
- Honda Fit, Mustang Mach-E
- Occupation
- Software Engineer
I'll be contrarian. But, if you should care depends on your ford dealer. I've had three recalls (windshield, glass roof, and now hvbjb) and three csps (charge curve, bluecruise, unstick-the-software-updates). I have gremlins (electrical system drain) that ford does not yet understand, and so of course the dealer has nothing to do (no csp/no tsb = here's your car back).
If the csps (and hvbjb) had been OTA (ford corporate's fault -- software updates wedged on my job 1 car) and the glass recall had been the 1 day it should have been, the car would be *fantastic*.
Instead, the car will go in for a dealer-applied hvbjb (to get it earlier, because we have road trips planned before ota is due to arrive...) and that will hit 30 business days out of service (plus 6 days of weekend, all this calendar year).
Of that 29, 5 were bluecruise (should be a 1-2 day job but it "kept failing and they had to retry"), 1 was chasing the electrical system drain (and failing to fix), and the other 23 (+6 weekend) were either directly the glass recall, or related to it (where, IMO, their sloppy work broke/etc the other things that have had to be warranty fixed since then -- wipers misadjusted, shark fin clips broke, and the interior trim was a mess after reassembly).
So yeah. How's your local dealer? If we'd been in 1-2 day for the glass and the rest had been OTA? I'm sure we'd be happy as a clam. Oh and trying to schedule the hvbjb with the local dealer? They said a month out. So I'm driving an hour away to the dealer we bought it to get it done before our trips. They had options within a week.
We test drove the ev6 and ioniq 5 yesterday. The i5 was bottom-spec, so no sense comparing it (cloth seats) to the premium awd er mustang we have. The ev6 was the wind awd, so pretty comparable. I would have to say I think it felt slightly less nice in terms of cabin materials than the mustang. I miss the glass roof (didn't think I'd be saying that!). Ventilated front, heated rear, and super fast charging is pretty compelling. I have a getting-paid-2.8k-to-drive-for-a-year offer from driveway (spot check, I haven't done the circuit yet). And now there's a bonus state rebate I'd get on the ev6 now (... well maybe if funds don't run out instantly).
Edit: Oh and I haven't even started in on the mystery bugs. I approach the car, alone, with my fob, and it picks my wife's seat position (but my profile is loaded). Door buttons seem... inconsistent on operating. Even after all the updates. My wife for the life of her can't get the kick-to-open trunk to work. For me its about 75% of the time. The stupid auto-routing comes on for the builtin nav, even when we've told it not to. Sirus XM has the popover on startup. Bluecruise-and-friends gets easily confused at entry/exit ramps and we've had "mystery" speed changes where it saw .... something and decided that the interstate was 45 mph rather than 70 mph.
If the csps (and hvbjb) had been OTA (ford corporate's fault -- software updates wedged on my job 1 car) and the glass recall had been the 1 day it should have been, the car would be *fantastic*.
Instead, the car will go in for a dealer-applied hvbjb (to get it earlier, because we have road trips planned before ota is due to arrive...) and that will hit 30 business days out of service (plus 6 days of weekend, all this calendar year).
Of that 29, 5 were bluecruise (should be a 1-2 day job but it "kept failing and they had to retry"), 1 was chasing the electrical system drain (and failing to fix), and the other 23 (+6 weekend) were either directly the glass recall, or related to it (where, IMO, their sloppy work broke/etc the other things that have had to be warranty fixed since then -- wipers misadjusted, shark fin clips broke, and the interior trim was a mess after reassembly).
So yeah. How's your local dealer? If we'd been in 1-2 day for the glass and the rest had been OTA? I'm sure we'd be happy as a clam. Oh and trying to schedule the hvbjb with the local dealer? They said a month out. So I'm driving an hour away to the dealer we bought it to get it done before our trips. They had options within a week.
We test drove the ev6 and ioniq 5 yesterday. The i5 was bottom-spec, so no sense comparing it (cloth seats) to the premium awd er mustang we have. The ev6 was the wind awd, so pretty comparable. I would have to say I think it felt slightly less nice in terms of cabin materials than the mustang. I miss the glass roof (didn't think I'd be saying that!). Ventilated front, heated rear, and super fast charging is pretty compelling. I have a getting-paid-2.8k-to-drive-for-a-year offer from driveway (spot check, I haven't done the circuit yet). And now there's a bonus state rebate I'd get on the ev6 now (... well maybe if funds don't run out instantly).
Edit: Oh and I haven't even started in on the mystery bugs. I approach the car, alone, with my fob, and it picks my wife's seat position (but my profile is loaded). Door buttons seem... inconsistent on operating. Even after all the updates. My wife for the life of her can't get the kick-to-open trunk to work. For me its about 75% of the time. The stupid auto-routing comes on for the builtin nav, even when we've told it not to. Sirus XM has the popover on startup. Bluecruise-and-friends gets easily confused at entry/exit ramps and we've had "mystery" speed changes where it saw .... something and decided that the interstate was 45 mph rather than 70 mph.
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