[Sickstick]

Well, for those who remember my previous posts about how my car was too low and the tires were hitting sway bar, alignment was out, just bought the goddamned thing, apparently passed the safety.....
how could it have passed the safety when the whole steering system was jeopardized?
Good question.
Dealership doesnt give a shit.
Drove home from work tonight (4 kms), parked her, heard a hissing noise and yup, sure enough, the tire ripped on the inside, guts falling out...
I ran my hand behind the tire to figure out where the puncture was and cut my hand on the busted belt for fuksakes.... tires bald on the inside at the front pretty much and the dealership said that a bad alignment isnt responsible for that... m'am bad alignment doesnt ruin tires....

MY FUKIN ASS!

Like @#&* it isn't.
So, we had to drop her off at the dealership after I got the bastards to agree to pay for the alignment to be done and to replace ONE out of two new fron tires, exact same ones I had. They won't pay for both... BASTARDS ITS THEIR FAULT.
Too funny, when they were talking to me like I was some stupid broad/idiot from outter space I thought hubby was gonna blow a gasket, lol. If it wasn't for his attitude about what's right and wrong I probably wouldn't have had the balls to phone dealership and demand they do their part....

Anyhow, theres my bad luck for the day....
Kinda wondering how they're gonna do the alignment when there no c plates on the car, but i guess thats their problem, now that they've already said they'd fix THAT at their cost....
IDIOTS

[El_Cangri]

this thread gonna get moved...

[Onemanzu]

yea but thats funny... my dealership would have been like ... well this and that and this are wrong... you need to change your sawy bar fluid... the brakes are on the wrong side of the car... also your dome light is blown ... the left tire isn't really a tire but a piece of carpet wrapped around a rim... the total is gonna be like $3000 will that be cash or cash... fuck ford dealerships

[Sickstick]

Originally Posted by Onemanzu yea but thats funny... my dealership would have been like ... well this and that and this are wrong... you need to change your sawy bar fluid... the brakes are on the wrong side of the car... also your dome light is blown ... the left tire isn't really a tire but a piece of carpet wrapped around a rim... the total is gonna be like $3000 will that be cash or cash... fuck ford dealerships

LOL, too funny. Thanks for lightening things up a bit for us. Hubby laughed at what you said. Clown!
But yeah, that's pretty much what they were trying to tell me.

Hey, did you get that oil leak looked after?

[ByPopularDemand]

Ha ha...and technically isn't this abour cc plates? When did u get sway bars?

[Sickstick]

Originally Posted by ByPopularDemand Ha ha...and technically isn't this abour cc plates? When did u get sway bars?

Exactly. If they think they can do an alignment, they won't be able to do it properly unless they put on the cc's. Their cost. Hey, we left the springs in the trunk and said if you wanna install these, save you from buyin cc's THEN do the alignment.... Cause one way or another, you have to do SOMETHING if you think you can achieve proper alignment.

And ya, sway bars, the thingy's we play limbo with after we've had a few too many to drink. or we hang on to them to keep us from swaying when we take that big 2" drop step outta the seat....

WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHEN DID I GET SWAY BARS???? THEYRE THERE ARE THEY NOT?!?!?
You were in on the original discussion I believe when I first signed up, discussing the whole cc issue, that was when i started getting carved for my gino wheels....

[Sickstick]

Originally Posted by ByPopularDemand Ha ha...and technically isn't this abour cc plates? When did u get sway bars?

Also, to be honest, the car was what it was when i bought her. She had already been lowered etc. so we weren't in on the whole experience so to speak. So whatever methods etc. they used we won't be sure till we get in there to replace the springs which will hopefully be next week....
This is my first stang and I've never modded anything before except for a few minor cosmetic things on my GTP that I had before I got this.....

[Onemanzu]

nope i didn't get the leak looked after... and guess what it pretty much blew up on me this weekend... so i have been limpin my car around... not even pushing it hard... im idleing every where

i found a shop that will fix it for almost nothing so ima take it their on tuesday and not drive it this weekend and see what happens... hopefully they fix it and i keep going back to them cuz they seem nice and are way cheaper then most places i have found

so you have your regular springs or some thing like that and your gonna put those in? thats cool bout time something happens

haven't seen you in ages... best of luck stay around

[punkafi888]

hey man dont forget to cange your blinker fluid or your muffler gasket

[Onemanzu]

but their is a muffler gasket dude

[ByPopularDemand]

Lol...and I missed the sway discussion I only caught a lil of the rim talk

[Onemanzu]

so honest to god their are such things as muffler gaskets... google it and you get a shit ton of hits... i was just messin with you tryin to punk you but the joke is on me i guess...



1970 - 1976 Porsche 914/4 Cylinder Muffler Gasket Set

[scubasteve041186]

k so the caster camber plates aren;t gona help yoru alignment is still gona be off the best they can do is shorten the stupid um... end link? can;t remeber the proper name. or... they go into the upper tower drop the strut and drill a 3 holes closer to the outer part of the car and move the strut out.. thats what i'm gonabe doing i'll get you a link for the process. cause even my BBK custom cambers can't fix my alignment even with a cro bar i'm still at a -3.6 degrees on one tire. but yeah two secs i'll find the site.

[scubasteve041186]

lol time well spent at 1 am.... there you go hun
http://www.ashentep.com/webpages/alignment.htm
took me days to find that site

[Sickstick]

Originally Posted by Onemanzu nope i didn't get the leak looked after... and guess what it pretty much blew up on me this weekend... so i have been limpin my car around... not even pushing it hard... im idleing every where i found a shop that will fix it for almost nothing so ima take it their on tuesday and not drive it this weekend and see what happens... hopefully they fix it and i keep going back to them cuz they seem nice and are way cheaper then most places i have found so you have your regular springs or some thing like that and your gonna put those in? thats cool bout time something happens haven't seen you in ages... best of luck stay around

Good luck with YOUR beast.... I just woke up and gotta get ready for work but I'm depressed as hell knowing what I will face today when the dealership phones me..... UG>>>> Don't know if I'm mentally equipped to deal with their bull shit today.....

[Sickstick]

Originally Posted by scubasteve041186 lol time well spent at 1 am.... there you go hun http://www.ashentep.com/webpages/alignment.htm took me days to find that site

Okay, so it's no as easy as it sounds then.....
SO
I wonder what mr. dealership jerry will have to say about all that when he gets in there and see whats involved....
He DID say point blank that he'll cover the alignment... so lets see how true to their word they are....
I'm betting on ummm, NOT!

PS.... thanks for the link.... appreciated it, we haven't a clue about this stuff, well, I dont anyways.

Oh, and btw, so I'm dumb, but just so i know what I'm talking about when I'm on the phone with him, you know, when they're telling me to change my blinker fluid and all that, why is it that cc plates won't help me??? Would aftermarket cc's not help me at all???

[scubasteve041186]

ok well i'm still sleeping so bare with me but yeah the caster camber plates just gives you the ability to move the struts around a bit more since you raised them up a bit higher and have a a couple screws and push crap around or tilt the actual start point of the strut. ( pretend it was flat and i put a plate down that can be lifted up and tilted. now pretend i have a stick in the middle attatched to a tire... when we lower it the strut automatically goes like this / or this \ and what we want is .. | .. for a proper alignement.. o yeah so since we can raise the plate the stick has chance to go back to normal.... but inour case where the drop is over 1.5" we have no chance with a CC plate lol. the caster camber plate is just not thick enough ( high enough) to support that kind of drop. hense the fun modification of drilling and grinding now or getting shorter end links. cause if you under the car by the front tired looking fromthe front there is a little bart here that looks like this .... / ...(on the right side) well hate to say its suppose to be straight. anyways with a shorter one it will stop pushing your tire away from the car and you might have a chance for a proper alignment and the dealership i think could do that.

unless your a hardcore corner carver ( which i am right now hahaha with my camber) its pointless to have a camber over negayive 1.8 degrees.. thats the max it should be for a proper alignment, is what the shop showed me.

[Sickstick]

Originally Posted by scubasteve041186 ok well i'm still sleeping so bare with me but yeah the caster camber plates just gives you the ability to move the struts around a bit more since you raised them up a bit higher and have a a couple screws and push crap around or tilt the actual start point of the strut. ( pretend it was flat and i put a plate down that can be lifted up and tilted. now pretend i have a stick in the middle attatched to a tire... when we lower it the strut automatically goes like this / or this \ and what we want is .. | .. for a proper alignement.. o yeah so since we can raise the plate the stick has chance to go back to normal.... but inour case where the drop is over 1.5" we have no chance with a CC plate lol. the caster camber plate is just not thick enough ( high enough) to support that kind of drop. hense the fun modification of drilling and grinding now or getting shorter end links. cause if you under the car by the front tired looking fromthe front there is a little bart here that looks like this .... / ...(on the right side) well hate to say its suppose to be straight. anyways with a shorter one it will stop pushing your tire away from the car and you might have a chance for a proper alignment and the dealership i think could do that. unless your a hardcore corner carver ( which i am right now hahaha with my camber) its pointless to have a camber over negayive 1.8 degrees.. thats the max it should be for a proper alignment, is what the shop showed me.

Well, I talked to the dealership on my lunch hour and they said my tires hard to get around here so I won't have my car back till maybe Monday... they still wanna charge me for the other tire.... but we'll see. we technically never agreed to pay for second tire, we said we'd discuss it later lol....
so you think the dealership might be able to do it? That would be nice, but shit, I was hopin they'd install my springs for me....
Guess that's life for you eh? I won't know anything now till monday

[scubasteve041186]

well keep on them and make sure you know what they did. cause so far thats the options i know of. i would like to hear others lol

[BateGoiko]

I do not know what are these dealerships you talk of. I've been to a stealership before, and yes, they will mess up your car, and they will blame magical alien supersonic emissions that are not covered by any warranty or insurance known to men.

One of these geniuses dropped my car in way that he managed to bend the rear sway bar (it is not a Ford, it's a Subaru). We had a long discussion back and forth about whose fault it is until the stealership made a mechanic from Subaru of America fly over to Utah to determine fault. Can you imagine? Over a freaking sway bar that probably costs them 100 bucks tops to replace.

Anyway, the guy from SoA told them to fix it. Guess who never goes to stealerships anymore. One more reason to learn how to work on your own car.