Subject: 
2003 Ford Ranger EDGE from Winchester Ford, Winchester, VA


Fri, 29 Jul 2005 0:35:15 -0400
Date:    





In December 2004 I purchased a used Ford Ranger EDGE with 13,000 some miles 
on the odometer........great deal on a low mileage truck, so I snapped it 
up.  IN January I was driving around the local mall here in WInchester, VA 
where I work when the thing just stalled out on me, kinda like a manual stalling 
out when you miss a gear, but this thing is an automatic for lords sake.  So I take 
it back to WInchester Ford and they say its a computer program issue so they 
reprogram it and I figure everything is ok.  Not even a month later im in a parking 
lot and it stalls out once again, this time the service department at Ford says "wow, 
no ones ever changed the oil or oil filter in this truck, shucks thats whats causing 
the problem".  Funny that WInchester Ford never hit this in their 14 point used car 
inspection they harp about, must not include the oil in that one.  Anyways this 
rigamarole kept going, we kept taking it back every month on the month.  Same 
problem just would stall out, and you couldnt get it to restart for 5 to 15 minutes.  
Weather didnt matter, running or stopped didnt matter.  Happened at two stop lights 
in town once in the rain when I was going to get my medication for a cervical neck 
strain, that was fun.  SO finally just a few weeks ago, early July my sister had 
borrowed the truck to go to work and it quit on her, this time there was no 
restarting and it was taken on a rollback to Winchester Ford. What was the 
excuse du jour?  Fuel pump problem they say, so they put a new fuel pump in it and 
guess what, I pick it up and no more than 4 hours, yes 4 hours later im turning onto 
a local road and she stalls out once again.......we now go back to Winchester 
Ford for I believe we are now up to the 8th time.  THis time their typically rude 
staff takes it out for three days deems it perfectly fine and tells me to pick it up, 
my father drives me home as I have decided he can run it, cause Ill just be 
running his Hyundai Santa Fe which has become my defacto ride since the 
problems started.  We turn onto my home street and she cuts out again, this just 
today(July 28,2005), he calls them and the guy says well shucks must be a bad 
idler, yes thats his words apparently.  SO the odyssey continues with the evil red 
2003 Ford Ranger EDGE, and whats been the most fun part of this, Ford tries to 
trade me into a 2005 Focus(yeah big difference isnt it)and says hey we can keep 
this at your current pay schedule(312.81 a month for those interested)you only 
have to put 2000 down on this thing........more money for their problem, yes folks, 
they want me to come up with 2000 to step down to a small car that I wouldnt 
need if they had sold me a working truck to begin with.  I was a big Ford guy 
growing up, this has ruined me forever for the Ford Motor Company.

Clifford