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| I wasn't offered free brakes until they pulled my calipers and found they couldn't get them back together. At that point, they admitted that the calipers must have been defective and offered me free parts. Then they couldn't get the calipers. I called Ford, and was then offered free everything from the dealer. BTW, it was not from the selling dealer, so they weren't trying to keep a customer happy. | |
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Replying to: mandygratton (Oct 29, 2006 2:36 pm) Your dealer is correct. There has never been a recall. There was a technical service bulletin issued in March 2005 regarding rear brakes that only applied to early build '05 models. Ask your dealer about TSB 05-4-7 Mar 05. Your description of 0% brake life on the rear while having 95% on the front is extremely unusual. If your dealer is claiming "driver error", ask them to be more specific. Ask them just exactly how driving habits could account for this very unusual wear pattern. About the only thing I can think of to account for this would be if you or someone else drove around some with the parking brake partially set. That would indeed be "driver error". |
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Replying to: mandygratton (Oct 29, 2006 2:36 pm)
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Replying to: coldcranker (Oct 30, 2006 3:55 pm)
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Replying to: rick2456 (Oct 31, 2006 6:10 am) |
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haven't heard that, that's interesting
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Replying to: gerardtn (Oct 31, 2006 3:39 pm)
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I'd take it in to the dealer, and point out that it is not good for the transmission to have the car use it as a parking brake. They should know that, it's in every owner's manual I have ever read. Even if it's not in the manual, you can surely find a reference on the internet to using the parking brake, not the transmission, to hold the car on hills. If you use the transmission to hold the car, it'll lock up the transmission and make it hard to shift out of park. Anyway, insist that your service tech take the car on a hill and put the brake on and then before he puts it in park, let off the brake pedal. That's the way they tell you to park a car. If it rolls, tell him to fix it under the 36/36 bumper to bumper. Tell him you don't care if he can't adjust the handle, to fix it whatever way he has to. If that doesn't work, go through the steps in your owners guide. go to the service manager, then call ford, etc. And be nice, you'll catch more flies with honey. |
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Replying to: rick2456 (Nov 01, 2006 4:11 am) Assuming you are setting the parking brake by pushing it to the floor (4 or 5 clicks for full benefit), the manual says to look for binding parking brake cables (under the Freestyle connected to the rear wheel brakes). If the PB pedal does not engage smoothly, you should also check the parking brake control attached to the pedal. Though a common practice, I would never trust the single tooth of the transmission Park pawl to hold a 4000 pound vehicle on a steep hill. Good luck with the dealer and the parking brake. 
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