Lady Bee
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- MY2020 Mustang Convertible 2.3L, VF Series II Commodore,
What is this 'brake pedal' thing of which you speak?
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Just open your door. Thank you GT PonySome of you guys posted a pic of the date off of your window sticker. I was told that it was the invoice date, not the build date. Wait for the letter before you get all worried about it.
Ford: 5 cents is 5 cents.Dumb. Why compromise a part directly related to safety? It should be designed well robust enough to never ever break. Reminds me of the aluminum shift fork. They try to design to narrow margins and it bites them in the rear. Heck, there is even stress analysis software that can show failure points. I know, cheaper, lighter, blah blah but there are limits. You should be able to stomp the he** out of a brake pedal.
They did not do so out of malice. They merely thought that by switching to a different material, they could save money and/or weight. (probably money). Based on what I read, the engineers didn't put in a big enough safety factor to account for variations in manufacturing, and there wasn't enough of a review of that design to catch it. Had the review taken place, it probably would have been caught and corrected. Had manufacturing been done to tighter tolerances, it would have been fine. Unfortunately, it took both issues to cause this...Ford: 5 cents is 5 cents.
Chevy is Rolls Royce compared to Ford.
There is a thread covering that very topic. Look for Mustang Brake Recall.I guess this applies to GT500 as well.
Awesome, nothing more satisfying than dodging a recall because you're a caveman.
I tracked my VIN downIf you want to see if your mustang is part of the recall just enter your vin here instead of guessing via invoice/manufacturing date:
https://owner.ford.com/tools/account/maintenance/recalls.html