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Interesting to note that on another forum a guy had the same issue and it was found that Ford either put cardboard in the hollow shaft to stop vibration, or forget to take it out, it gets wet and begin the internal rust cycle. His was covered by Ford, whatever way you look at it, they must be aware of the issue and yet they have done nothing about it. They will be wide open to all sorts of horrid claims if its true, if they knew and didn't do a recall or remedy the issue. Farking great way to look after customers.

It is the bit between the gearbox and the diff, the driveshaft, and they are not solid, they are very thin tube

Thanks gents, looks like a bit of under dash fossiking to be done

Noticed a puddle of clean water on the drivers side floor today after running the air cond for a half hour drive, its coming from under the centre consol and running down the tunnel to the floor, quite wet under the front of the centre consol,does anybody if there is there an air cond drain hose up under there somewhere? Thanks

Hey turbotrana blame is not the point, they can check the ecu to see if the car has been hammered and it hasn't. They are just not interested in how it broke so they can go and get farked and suck it up with an attitude like that. Even if the car had been abused a driveshaft SHOULD NOT break especially at 30,000klm

Actually it was Ford ciustomer NO relations that knocked it back in cahoots with the Metro Ford mechanic. The said they had rung the Ford mec and were waiting for his opinion and he told John they hadn't rung at all, so obviously they have a strong Policy of worming out of everything they can, so its off to ACA with with matter. What a CARNT of a company, we spent a million dollars on their cars over 2 years and they do this. I'm glad they got hammered at Bathurst and I hope their sales keep falling like they deserve to. The worst thing is that if its an endemnic fault then someone is going to end up getting badly hurt and they are not interested in even sending a rep to look at it, obviously profit before anything else and maximum denial. The thing was only 6 months out of warranty and the driveshaft should last at least 500,000klm, even if it had been given a hard time which it hasn't then it should still be able to handle anything thrown at it. You have to wonder if they have used the same POS shaft in the new GTs. As far as I'm concerned after their attitude they can go get Farked.

Hey 1600 Dave I asked him and this is the response "I would but Metro ford has the car and the mechanic there and ford Australia knocked it back." He is just lawyering up to take them to the cleaners. He's from a very wealthy Italian family and they DO NOT like being dudded. After Fords attitude with this I won't be going back to them for anything again.

I got my copy yesterday and it is an absolutly fantastic book in every way. Big congrats Craig.

Bottom line is that the tailshaft broke, it may be a rare occourence, but the car is bog standard and has just over 30,000 klms on it and is not driven hard, has never been under water or through a Fjord. It is just the all too often crap service from Ford so they can take the rope and hang themselves. They won't even communicate after they decided that they were not going to cover it. Real concern for customer service and product safety, its a bloody joke really. At the end of the day the driveshafts are probably Chinese made POS that cost them $150.

Not unless it happened at the factory in Melbourne

Hey Luke. Yes I do, and I agree with you its an extremely serious issue on a standard car, just lucky it wasn't barrelling down the highway somewhere, and you have to wonder if there is any more pending the same fate. However I'm just sitting back on the sidelines watching with appalled bemusement, as far as I'm concerned from now on Ford can GGF. I hope it's pushed all the way through to consumer affairs and then I will use some of my media contacts to bring it to the public arena. Ford seem completely uninterested and its not the money for a new driveshaft that's the issue it's Fords couldn't give a toss attitude.

Yeah, its just a shame they can't do the right thing. I bought the car in WA WA land and trucked it to Brisbane. Thing is the guy who drives it may as well drive a Morris 1100 as he drives slower than my half blind mother. I would fully understand Fords stance if he had modded it, but he won't even drill out the airbox. He's a tenacious bugger though so it will be interesting to see what sort of stick he gives Ford and FPV. One thing is for sure there is one less F6 they will sell this year.

My Business Partner has a BF R Spec which we bought when I bought mine. It has only 30,000klm on it completely stock and he drives like a grandmother. 4 weeks ago he was driving to the shops and the driveshaft snapped at about 50kph, luckily he wasn't doing 100 on the freeway. It was paper thin and rusted from the inside out. Anyway long story short he had it towed to Ford and they said bad luck no warranty and quoted $3200 for a new one. What a fcuken joke, they don't do themselves any favours as he was ready to trade it on a new F6, now he is adament to go to the dark side. Anyway consumer affairs is all over it as apparently the new consumer laws state that even after warranty expires a vehicle must remain servicable indefinately. If it happened to my car I would just suck it and pay as I know the rules but for a bog standard car it's a bit bloody ordinary on Fords behalf.

Watch out for the 4000 drilled and slotteds they rattle like crazy and drive you round the bend. I gave a set away to arronm after only 300klms. Got the slotteds without the drilling and quiet as a baby

Ohhhhhhh so they have found another way to steal money, what a surprise that is

I bought mine about 4 weeks ago and got an email the other day saying it will arrive in Oct. Best to buyt now and wait, then you will get a first release and not have to wait if and when the first print run sells out. I'm looking forward to the read.

Geez I was very tempted to buy one of these and decided to wait for the update, they have lost me now. It seems they are a great car but if you get a problem you are faced with FPV who don't give a toss and then you have to find a Ford workshop that actually knows how to fix anything beyond changing spark plugs. Just a damn shame. I would be seeking a replacement under the lemon law thing. Oh and I would yell and scream very loudly, they squeaky hinge gets the oil. I feel for you mate. I gave Ford my R SPec 8 times over a 2 year period to fix a click in the front LH side and a boot leak, still clicks and still leaks. Love their cars but I would never buy another one. All the best with it.

Plus you will never ever get 300+ RWKW out of a house, we are heading for the same scenario re housing as the US, except if you are a banker, a financial adviser, or a real estate agent of course. Just deny deny deny and forget to tell anybody about the multi trillion dollar derivatives bubble our so called big 4 banks up up to their eyeballs in. Hell even the world bank and the IMF are starting to rumble about Australia's housing bubble now, all created on money borrowed from O/Seas banks, even the ANZ and Commonwealth had to borrow billions from the fed when the GFC hit. But don't worry just stick ya head in the sand and pay some carbon tax and she'll be right mate. Lucky Country my ar$e, not anymore its not.

Well we do live in a country run by a barren athiest dancing to the tune of a gay lunatic, where the lesbian who was once the climate change minister is now having an IVF kid. Just about says it all I think. Scum Fabians.

It's only the beginning me thinks, this crap is spreading across the planet, and there is no easy or effective answer. Next it will be the USA and the coppers there won't fark about, but without sending the army in they are severly out numbered. Oh that's right the US military is all off shore blowing up other countries to steal their oil and sh!t. This will be a very interesting decade, its going to be a hell of a day when the global economy implodes on itself and the ATMs don't work anymore.

And this is what we have at 5 months out. All Of The Governments Lie To All Of The People All Of The Time. Glad I don't live on the west coast of Canada, although its probably the same down in LA where I am now, although I am eating potassium Iodine tablets. The EPAs head in the sand reaction to wind borne radiation was to switch the publicly assessable geigers counters off from portland to San Diego. I think there is going to be a huge cancer spike in the next 5 years. They still have not contained the leakage. http://www.youtube.com/user/connectingdots1

If the workshop has a Ford sign hanging outside you are usually going to get lied to and your wallet will get raped

More Lies From More Liars. Our Taxes paid for this clown. What a low life POS Do as I say, not as I do: Flannery's all at sea. IF your dream home is right down on the water, and you had listened to global warming guru Tim Flannery, you'd be more than a little worried. Professor Flannery, appointed climate commissioner by the Gillard government, is never backward in coming forward. A few years go, he spoke of sea-level rises of biblical proportions, where walls of water eight storeys high would subsume all beneath. "Anyone with a coastal view from their bedroom window, or their kitchen window, or whatever, is likely to lose their house as a result of that change, so anywhere, any coastal cities, coastal areas, are in grave danger," he said. Since his most recent appointment, Professor Flannery has taken the cause around the country, warning in June of a clear and present danger. "There are islands in the Torres Strait that are already being evacuated," he said. Given all that, many have been surprised to learn Professor Flannery has his own pile right on the water in the trendy tidal region of the lower Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney. "Yes, it is waterfront and his would be one of the biggest on the point," a neighbour, David, told Sydney radio jock Ray Hadley on 2GB last week. Almost immediately, the world of talkback and the blogosphere went wild. In one chatroom, OS said doomsayers such as Professor Flannery "after having frightened the elderly to sell their seaside properties, are buying them". According to property searches, in 1997 Professor Flannery bought one house on the Hawkesbury with his wife, Alexandra Leigh Szalay, for $274,000. Five years later -- even as climate scientists, including Professor Flannery, claimed evidence of global warming and rising sea levels was even more solid -- the couple bought the property next door, for $505,000. For a week, Professor Flannery declined to speak to journalists about his properties, but he broke his silence yesterday to tell The Weekend Australian that while waterfront property generally was at risk, his little bit of paradise was secure for his lifetime. "There is no chance of it being inundated, short of a collapse of the Greenland Ice Shelf," Professor Flannery said. While his place was, he admitted, "very close to the water", the issue was how far it was above the water -- something Professor Flannery would not reveal because, he said, it could help identify the location and subject him to a Norway-style attack by conservatives. Professor Flannery also said his warnings of a 20m rise in sea levels should be put in perspective -- that, he said, had to do with a range of factors and could occur once every 50,000 or 100,000 years. The relevant time period, he said, was between now and the end of this century when the best predictions were for a rise in sea levels based on thermal expansion of the oceans of 40-80cm, plus a less predictable additional rise from melting icecaps and glaciers. Asked what Torres Strait islands were "being evacuated", Professor Flannery conceded no evacuations were under way, but authorities on one island, Saibai, were looking at the possibility of acquiring land on a higher one.

Hi Aaron. The discs are at Simons. Cheers

Hi Aaron. Mate I'm back in WA WA land and dropping the discs down to Simons today or tomorrow. Ib defense of DBA they did offer me a full refund on them but that was after they were promised away. Enjoy dude, my new Brembo Discs are perfectly quiet.