The math shows it has a better resale than an Accord.... Furthermore,
it's not a big deal to put 230k miles on a vic and expect more. All in
all, the vic lasts for a vast amount of time.... For example... They
have tried Honda's for taxis and cop cars but they did not hold up or
last long..... Consdiering ball joints in general, Mazda sealed ball
joints last, Honda's last, GM's are so so, along with a lot of other
sealed ball joints.... Dodge just had a poor design on them.... My dad
has been doing alignments and suspension work for over 35 years (he's an
old fucker nowa days) and I remeber what he said when he first saw
dodge's setup..... He pretty much said that the design was a joke.
Anyhow, it seems that all motor companies make mistakes and do stupid
things.... Most involving money matters.... But yet, stupid americans
still buy.... I wish ford would go back to the early 70s for their
designs... Seemed like those cars lasted long and performed well. I
really liked the Mercury line... I can't say much for their trucks
though... On the other hand though, it was a truck and it did what a
truck was suposed to do very well.... Till some morons got out there and
drove them like cars.
Rick Barnes wrote:
> The Vic is a good car, but do you think it will keep its resale the way an
> Accord does? Yes, some of the cars are using those ball joints now, but
> Dodge did it to save a few bucks and caused lots of Dak and Durango owners
> much grief.
>
> Rascal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Daniel L.
> Burrows
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 11:12 PM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: Re: DML: OT: Drive a Ford or get off the lot.
>
>
> Most of your other newer cars and trucks have ball joints like that
> (nothing new). Ford has the new fusion (Mazda plant) and it's pretty bad
> ass. There problem is the same as everyone elses.... Money is getting
> tight, they don't know what to do, so they are being gay... As for the
> good car... They have the Vic! I can't think of a better car than the
> vic in that price range.
>
> Rick Barnes wrote:
>
>
>>Hence their problem. All they have to do is build a good car...Honda, and
>>Toyota can but THEY can't? What kind of sense does it make to build cars
>>for about a hundred years and decide to make a TRUCK with ball joints
>>without grease nips just to save a buck or two...(our Daks)...
>>They have no one to blame but themselves.
>>
>>Rascal
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
>>[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Terrible Tom
>>Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:08 PM
>>To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
>>Subject: Re: DML: OT: Drive a Ford or get off the lot.
>>
>>
>>Dan Kramarsky wrote:
>>
>>
>>>LOL.
>>>
>>>Ford's Deerborn plant workers were told they must drive a Ford or park
>>
>>across the street.
>>
>>
>>>Ford reports a loss of 1.6 billion in its North American auto operations
>>
>>for 2005. And
>>
>>
>>>plans to cut 30,000 jobs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/companies/ford_parkinglot/index.htm?cnn
>
>>=yes
>>
>>
>>>
>>I can understand the sentiment behind that... from the standpoint of
>>Ford... however I think its a little irritating that they would mandate
>>that. One guy was quoted as having said something like drive or buy
>>what you build... well yeah thats nice.. I'm sure every guy that builds
>>ford trucks will want to drive one with the WOOONDERFUL gas milage that
>>full size trucks get. Granted a UAW worker makes a hell of a lot more
>>money than I do.. and can afford more gasoline than I can... but don't
>>expect them to buy what they build.
>>
>>On a related note - on my many trips between chicago and wisconsin over
>>the years, I have seen lots of non Dodge products parked in the lots at
>>the Belvedere IL Neon plant. Heh
>>
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