Xr6 Quality Gripes

[Schmooth]

I gotta admit, I've read a lot of stories on these forums about warranty issues. It makes you think seriously about extended warranty so that you can tell to fix it properly or I'll just keep coming back!

Here's the list of 'factory installed options' in my two-year-old stock auto T (family taxi) with 60k on the clock:

- premium sound CD player can't play some CDs (including brand new ones) and ejects them (even after previously playing them

- rubber seal on right rear door comes loose

- replaced radiator (leaking)

- ABS wiring loom comes loose and rattles against ABS lines in engine bay

- loose heat shields

- broken LHS engine mount

- air vent on passenger side no longer vents

- excessive gaps in lower rubber seal on rear passenger window

- whine in 4th gear when you back off throttle

- wife reported brake shudder earlier today....

And the car isn't even driven hard! Gets the occasional squirt and good long runs down to the Victoria and the South Coast to help break up the taxi duties. I shudder to think about the pressure on drivetrains in cars driven hard - particularly for modified cars.

[xrute]

Check out the color match on my doors.

Also the green bolt holding on the guard.

This is how it was deivered from the factory.

Edited 13/01/06 02:03 PM by xrute

[Mondie]

  ZAP_F6 said:

I can understand that people have gripes about their new cars and my car (04/04) T had its fair share.

What I have found when dealing with Ford service is, it is far easier to not stress and fix some of the problems yourself or get your local panel shop or mechanic to do it. 

Sad but true

l cannot hand over $60k for a NEW car and then pay out of my own pocket to fix it. The so called value for money equation goes straight out the window for me. l would prefer to look elsewhere in the hope that one day they get the message and l can bbuy another performance Falcon. If the shift to medium sized cars continues they better get it quickly otherwise the crap service that Ford are known for will be another nail in the Falcons coffin.

[lightning_strike]

last word on the xr6t. Yesterday a mate and I test drove a few er 'modest' cars. We took out a Chrysler 300c hemi, a mazda rx8 and a madza mps, plus we had a tour around a lexus is250 (you have to book infor a test drive)

Cut a long story short, when the 300c goes from 4 to 8 cylinders in less than a nanosecond, the grunt is fantastic. But the car is so cheap and chintzy inside made of the finrst chinese plastics that you'd never see the Mercedes underpinnings.

The Mazda 6 MPS is 6 wolves in a sheeps clothing. It's like bringing a porcelain gun to a knife fight, it's such a sleeper that goes like absolute stink. But does very little in the eye candy department.

When you sit in the RX8, you get a real sense of drama. Drive it the way I drive my XR6t (like a very blunt instrument) and it makes a glorious rhapsody of rotor bark and tyre schreeching.

But for once in my life I was glad to get back in the t and thankful it wasn't me buying the new car, it was my mate. Because no car had the torque spread of the T or is so effortlessly grunty to drive.

So for now, all gripes are forgiven with the XR6t, It's a far better place to be than a 300c unless you're a chinese plastics expert that failed interior design at uni and did a TAFE course in shortcomings. It's absolutely awful.

P.S. MPS absolutely flies. It would easily give an XR6T a run for it's money!

[replicant]

300C is a US built car... and its rubbish. Nothing fits particular well, the quality of the hard plastics is Daewoo Lanc... oops Expensive Daewoo Barina ie the Korean one not the European one. The whole 'bling-bling' thing makes me want to 'puke' although the stereo is pretty good.

I think you should compare the 300C to a XR6T - it's a Ghia or Calais competitor and neither of these are really on my desired car list. I think I'd go back and get another Territory AWD before I looked at any of these 3 as it's much more practical - esp once they stick a turbo petrol in one.

The only well put together US assembled cars I've driven have been the M Class Merc and the X5 - neither of which were screwed together anywhere as well as the E Class or the 5 series equivalents - I think my Belgian assembled generation 3 Mondeo ST (the one Australia didn't get) was put together better than either of these.

[ugy]

  quadie said:

1. stereo , paid for preimum sound , my $10 stereo sounds better , warranty so far sub , amp , ICC have been replaced with noise still in the system , very load pop at medium volume levels , have since fix myself by replacing ford sub with jbl variety , not as loud , but twice as claer and at least it works!

2.viabration from front steering at 100, warranty again , front left rim had 45 gram weight in the middle , rebalanced , lots better!

2.5 10mm shim in front left strut tower , gee out of the factory with a shim that big!

3. noise from front end aund braking/launching , warranty , fault not found , for dhave given up

4. brake sudder , warranty , the usual machine and hope for the best

5. diff has clunk and viabration , warranty , awaiting new diff

6. left hand rear door no where near lined up ,dosnt close properly , warranty , booked in at panal shop

7. induction pipe fell off while driving , fixed it myself , cause it seems ford cant

8.intereior general , very cheap looking fittings and so forth !,, my friends 10000 dollar hyundai getz has a better finish and half the issues

little things like the silver panel around the stereo, the egde is all ragged and nowhere near smooth , panels dont line up too good around the car in general

6 weeks old , 4000k on the clock and its been back 4 times , and has 2 things still booked to be done , and finding more each day

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Well they must send all the good ones over to NZ.

So far I have done 9500ks and the only problems I have is the hand brake light

comes on now and again and a slight ticking sound when the brakes are applied

in slow traffic.I have modded it to 285rw and took it around the track on the weekend and gave it death no problems except for the chevy truck that I had

trouble catching 6.6litre diesel turbo (with no mods) man they got some stonk.

[DallasQLD]

DBOSS

Its not an issue of money. My wifes Mazda 2 has none of the niggling ises many T's have. It cost 19k on the road. We are not comparing perfomance, not quality.

[bossk]

4. brake sudder , warranty , the usual machine and hope for the best

Mate

I had the same prob with my XR6T and what it was is the brakes are heating up to much for the disks which in turn warped them so machining them does nothing and the only thing that will fix it is upgrading your brake package to PBR or Brembo.

Besides this I have had no other probs.

Edited 16/01/06 05:08 AM by bossk

[BLK6T]

My T has had its little issues but nothing like what ive been hearing. Mine was a demo and I purchased it with 5k on the clock. It went like a rocket, interior is all spoton, exterior is perfect (a few little scratches but nothing to upset me), engine runs perfectly with no leaks or clunks anywhere. Ive heard demos being of poor quality but to me its seems the other way around. I think the demos are better quality as they dont want potential customers driving crap (first impressions last). The only issues were a few rattles which I fixed two myself and the others have stopped. I will buy another Ford any day as its what I love to drive...

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  syco6 said:

What about the awesome Ford Capri convertable. NOT!

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ahhhhahahahaha I think the only people that bought that piece of carp Mercury Capri were chicks and guys who were chick desperate.