raymondo

I have complained about not wanting a xr6T anymore cause of the amount of problems I have had...but the replies to my b**ching on this site has spurred me on to keep at dealer to get it fixed...then maybe I will keep my snout out of the Expensive Daewoo trough ! Anyway, when running the car around town at 40 to 60 k's or when the car is not overly warm...when I accelerate hard the car farts and feels as if it is stalling or backfiring, yet there is no skidding of tyres or any need for it to be stalling or farting. I have driven it with several unknowlegeable ford service guys in the car, there answer is...it is the traction control kicking in and this is what they do. They have had it in the work shop twice for two days and cannot find a thing wrong. They now say run it all the time with traction control off and if the problem persists then bring it back and we will look at it again. Unfortunately I know nothing mechanically about cars, apart from the fact that the car was not doing this 3 months ago, and it simply is not right. Has any one experienced this problem before and also can anyone advise me that if you floor the acclerator on a dry piece of road when driving at 40 ks' an hour with traction control on should the car bog down ?...my car has only just started doing it and does it with traction control off, but it is less frequent . Any feedback or advice would be appreciated......and I will promise I will never winge about heat shields and handbrakes again. RAY

HI to `don't want a T anymore' I purchased mine in 2003, and have only done 30,000 k's in mine. I cannot remember how many times it has been in the service dept, with simlar problems as yours. I have had brakes reshimed so many times I have forgot, they finally replaced them. My radaitor burst, died and was replaced. My handbrake has been readjusted too many times. Speed sensors (what ever they are) replaced. Computer thingy in motor replaced. I have had the rattling heat shields adjusted many many times but dealer says now they simply cannot fix and they will just continue to rattle. And my latest ball tearer is that when ever I stuff my foot on the gas after running in traffic the car will bog down, the jefferson ford people simply say this is the traction control comming on....which is untrue, but I have now given up worrying about it, BECAUSE AS LIKE YOU I AGREE THE CAR IS A LEMON...GOES WELL WHEN IT DOES BUT TOO MANY QUALITY ISSUES. I have given the car to my wife and she uses it to shuttle the kids around and I now use her more reliable VW golf. The car will have done 3 years soon and will unfortunately get replaced with a Holden....which I never wanted to do again....but hey Ford cannot fix these things ! BUT WAIT, I have an idea...perhaps I could park my car next to yours and we could hire a mechanic and we could pick all the working parts from each car, and build one completely working one ?...then we could flip a coin as to who gets the good one ! From an old ford fan having to go back to Expensive Daewoo next year!