FORD RANGERS Rottening

Nissan Forever · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:21 am Post subject: FORD RANGERS Rottening

People beware of FORD Rangers they are rottening under the front fenders,inside the bonnet area under door rubbers and in very inconspicuous areas.
I know dat because my dad has one TCH Ranger and he is getting the run around from Ford right now i also have a partner with the same complaints so people please check urs if u own a ford ranger

7143 · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject:

good info here....first it was easy to break in them old mod el rangers...now they rottening...anobody else have faults??

7143 · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:19 pm Post subject:

good info here....first it was easy to break in them old mod el rangers...now they rottening...anobody else have faults??

hong kong phooey · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject:

is the waranty still valid
if it is get a lawyer and dont wait to late

7143 · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:08 pm Post subject:

hong kong phooey,yea that would make plenty sense.....cause nobody aint buy no van from the company in hopes that it would rust away immediateli....

edelbrock · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:36 am Post subject:

got some experience with this problem:

Take a flash light and look into the cowl panel (where the wiper arms are) at the inside of the firewall seam. you should see some rust there. what I noticed upon scrapping the front of the 3.5 yr old ranger 4x4 was that the rust appears to be restricted to the cab seams (where the sheetmetal overlaps). Removal of the seam sealant showed no coating underneath. It had the appearance of the cab being sprayed or dipped after the seam sealant was applied...which might still be acceptable if the sealant itself was engineered to be the corrosion solution for the joint. It apparently was not effective. Or might be a bad batch of sealant.

The end result is rust developing inbetween the seams of the cab and showing most prominently in the areas where water runs down from the windscreen into the cowl and inside the fenders. The body panels, doors, tray etc dont seem to have that problem....just the cab shell itself.

Cant tell you how upsetting this was to the owner and the reason I even bother to post anything on this is so that if we do find as consumers that there is a defect on these vehicles that there should be some solidarity for redress of the defective vehicles.
It is ridiculous that the consumer should be required to bust open cab seams on a practically new 200K vehicle and spend another 10k- 18K to effect repairs.

7143 · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:24 am Post subject:

edelbrock,well yuh have to pay to learn eh....now go sell it and buy a toyota.... Laughing

ssankar · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:54 am Post subject:

7143 · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject:

ssankar,yota ftw....

Mr. Go Slow · Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:07 am Post subject: Re: FORD RANGERS Rottening

7143 · Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:05 pm Post subject:

^yea photos would be real good...give the owners an idea of where exactli to look....

Nissan Forever · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: Ford Ranger gone for repairs

Well the firm took it in for repairs dont know if it might help but will inform my fellow tuners.

Slow Poke · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:00 pm Post subject:

any update on this?

7143 · Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:24 am Post subject:

*waiting for pics*