@1zbl+1tLfN6u8 also i have a feeling that you get better service if you pay for repairs yourself. those warranty rates are too low so they rush it or try to bandaid it. and a lot of used car warranty companies are just scams. look it up. this isnt covered, that isnt covered, fine print fine print.
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What Ford Leaders need to do besides personally laying themselves off is to approve of giving brand new Ford vehicles away for FREE, As-Is, no Warranties implied, not even a five-day warranty. To recoup the loss of offering the vehicles for free, Ford Motor Company can mark-up replacement parts by 1,000% that are necessary for Ford Dealerships to purchase to repair the vehicles their customers bought.
To go further tweak the vehicle's so only custom-made tools are necessary to repair the vehicles so Ford Dealerships don't get any compilation repairing the cars my third-party repair shops.
Once this plan is put in action Ford Moror Company will steam their losses.
Ford SHOULD stop including warranties with new vehicle sales. But that will take time to achieve. What we will do in the near term is to outlaw more and more repair work that is done outside of a Ford / Lincoln dealership. Any time a customer performs a repair or service on their own vehicle it should void their warranty. We don't know what they did or didn't do right. This should also extend to repair performed at independent auto service facilities including big chains. Those chains should have to pay a portion of their profit for each job and also be required to use our approved service parts if they want to be in our 'repair network'. Until we do this, we are leaving money on the table...
@1ugu+1tLfN6u8 "Who would buy a car without a warranty?"
Millions of people buy used vehicles without warranty. I am sure people would be willing to buy new vehicles without warranty if the price is right. But Ford would lose more money selling new vehicles without a warranty, than paying for the warranty repairs.
Who would buy a car without a warranty?
What if Ford could sell the outsourcing of their warranty work ? The work is not being done properly anyway. Some other company could do it more efficiently, get it right the first time, and at a lower cost. And Ford would save a ton of money without having to support dealer repair networks.
@OP. Let's say we do that. Do you really think that Ford could sell a vehicle without warranty at the same price than with warranty? LOL. Ford would "save" 2.3 billions of dollars in repairs, and lose 23 billions in sales.
Everyone knows that warranties are great for the seller, not the buyer. The better the product, the bigger the profit from selling warranties. That's why the solution is to fix the quality at Ford, not wasting time thinking of stoopid ideas.
Ford Motor Company ought to eliminate all Ford Dealerships and set up Open Air Auto Auction sites at Drive-In Theaters throughout the country that have been destroyed by tornados, flooding or fire because these sites would be cheap to purchase by Ford. Then Ford can transport all the vehicles Ford produces at Ford factories to the Drive-In Theaters Auction sites and run them down the line and let the Bidding begin.
Outside the box for sure. Where is the incentive to fix our poor quality or deliver better quality? Who would make their second largest purchase As-is? The competition would eat our lunch; ...wait...a 180 turn once our sales plummet by 80%.
Credit going out to someone who is thinking outside the box.
Is that you Farley? You get paid how much for these ideas?
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This must be from the website admin trying to generate some traffic….
This is id--tic. Any OEM that did this would go under