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I have several friends colleagues etc in the US that won’t touch a mustang as it is perceived a cheapI'm not critising the spec, merely using these points as an example of how I see Ford U.S. marketing dept did not advise or was ignored by vehicle program managers, on the demands and expectations of European customers.
As evidenced by this thread.
U.K. buyers do not appear to view the Mustang product as it is seen in the U.S. and U.K. customers clearly do not expect or are not keen to accept these levels of corrosion, faults, etc, as easily as U.S. customers might.
aluminium is a mofo for filiform corrosion. To properly treat aluminium it has to be surgically clean, alodined, primered with Real high end product and then painted.Probably pretty hard because they'd need to justify the extra cost required to bring it to that standard and a manufacturer doesn't need to try harder when their product is going off like free beer. Failing ac evaps and oil coolers in 15-17s didn't stop the progress of Mustang sales one bit.
That is indeed interesting. By contamination do you mean the alloy has contaminants in it hence why repainting is only a temporary fix? Did Jag overcome it?
the aluminium per say doesn’t corrode because of poor quality and contaminants In the substructure.
It corrodes due to bad prep. The end.
well actually to be fair, the aluminium part should be coated with a layer of pure aluminium over the part For added corrosion protection. I dunno if Ford does this ?
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