redtrack
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the last 6 months I have enjoy my new '18 GT PP1 401, with the new engine and 10 speed trans. A great improvement over my '16 GT, except for a couple of things:
Magneride: From day one, this suspension makes a thump noise, on small road imperfections. During this 6 months, have visited the dealer, and check every part posible of making the noise. Check the torque of every bolt, re-programmed the VDM module( magnaride), removed the rear sway bar, and everything car guys with a lot of differents cars during a lot of years, will think. At the end, the same "all do that" answer.
At the end this past week I drove 2 cars, a PP1 same as mine and a PP2 with 142 miles. To my surprised both makes the exact noise at the exact places. Above 50 you don't hear the noise, and at 80 it feels very nice. During this period I make a couple of posts, asking about this noise here in 6G, but nobody confirmed having the noise. A tech in a Florida dealer, confirmed to a friend about a lot of customers complaining about suspension noises. Locally a PP2 401 owner, can't accept that his car makes thoses noise. I had cars in the past with coil overs, lowering springs, etc, all those things we do to cars and never have the noise. My '16 was very quiet for a sport car.
In summary, Ford sold the idea that this magneride is so good, that is very comfortable on the road, and very good on track. Both claims are not completely true on daily driving. My conclusion is that the software on low speed, small bumps, needs to be revised. In adittion there is no recall or TBS or new software to install.
GPS; Since day 1 gps don't work, there several more cars with the same situation and no solution yet. Iread in this forum same problem.
Memory seat: Some times the memory seat after start the engine, doesn't move forward to the memory position. Other times moves, but upto about 4 inches short.
Thanks for taking your time to read this long post, but hopefully, Ford or someone may add his/her input to solve this problems like it happens a lot in this forum.... If at the end, I can't find a solution, I'll order the exact same car without the magneride....
Magneride: From day one, this suspension makes a thump noise, on small road imperfections. During this 6 months, have visited the dealer, and check every part posible of making the noise. Check the torque of every bolt, re-programmed the VDM module( magnaride), removed the rear sway bar, and everything car guys with a lot of differents cars during a lot of years, will think. At the end, the same "all do that" answer.
At the end this past week I drove 2 cars, a PP1 same as mine and a PP2 with 142 miles. To my surprised both makes the exact noise at the exact places. Above 50 you don't hear the noise, and at 80 it feels very nice. During this period I make a couple of posts, asking about this noise here in 6G, but nobody confirmed having the noise. A tech in a Florida dealer, confirmed to a friend about a lot of customers complaining about suspension noises. Locally a PP2 401 owner, can't accept that his car makes thoses noise. I had cars in the past with coil overs, lowering springs, etc, all those things we do to cars and never have the noise. My '16 was very quiet for a sport car.
In summary, Ford sold the idea that this magneride is so good, that is very comfortable on the road, and very good on track. Both claims are not completely true on daily driving. My conclusion is that the software on low speed, small bumps, needs to be revised. In adittion there is no recall or TBS or new software to install.
GPS; Since day 1 gps don't work, there several more cars with the same situation and no solution yet. Iread in this forum same problem.
Memory seat: Some times the memory seat after start the engine, doesn't move forward to the memory position. Other times moves, but upto about 4 inches short.
Thanks for taking your time to read this long post, but hopefully, Ford or someone may add his/her input to solve this problems like it happens a lot in this forum.... If at the end, I can't find a solution, I'll order the exact same car without the magneride....
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