Originally posted by bonanza bucko
I had a new Ford Explorer several years ago with the then new on board computer system. We took it on a trip to North Dakota from San Diego. I
believed the computer's mileage and range data because I didn't know any better. We passed a sign in ND that said "next gas 130 miles." My range
computer said I had 160 in the tank. We barely made it...fumes.
So for the rest of our trip....about 5000 miles to Illiniois, Wisconsin, Missouri etc and all the way home I kept a log of miles driven and gas
consumed. The actual data were about 14 MPG but the computer reported about 17....20% error. So when I got home I went to the dealer about that. He
said. "It's an average MPG." I said, "How's 5000 miles with a 20% error?" We went round and round and after many, many phone calls I finally go a
woman in Ford in Detroit HQ who called me say the following, (paraphrased)..."We know it's wrong and we are not going to fix it...this is the last
contact you will have with Ford Motor Company about this."
So I fired Ford after about 20 years of customer hood. I bought Toyota Tundras and loved them until Toyota decided to try to emulate a Dodge Ram 2500
and then to make the bigger truck weigh the same as the old one with lotsa plastic and thin sheet metal. I bought a 2010 F150 which is a very fine
machine indeed!....it performs on THAT ROAD just as well or better than the Tundra did and that is saying something.
But the F150 has the same Ford Fib in the onboard computer. I just know about it now.
Still peees me off!
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