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Average car payments have been rising for a while. Although auto loan delinquency rates have been down since the height of the pandemic, Ford applied for a patent to make the repossession process go smoother. For the bank, that is.
The patent document was submitted to the United States Patent Office in August 2021 but it was formally published Feb. 23. It’s titled “Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle.” It describes several ways to make the life of somebody who has missed several car payments harder. More
No Jack?
I got a better idea Ford. You can just keep yer shit from the start.
Repo shouldn’t be too hard. They only travel 100 miles before they breakdown. I exaggerate a little.
For the electric trucks, just leave a trailer hooked to, it will never home.
Must be to expensive to kill the computers.
Yes, they can kill your car as you drive down the road.
With Ford technology the way it is a 13 year old could probably bypass this feature in 15 minutes or less.
No thanks, I’ll keep my low mileage 93 Subaru AWD station wagon with all the bells and whistles. And it’s paid for, I just got to keep up the routine maintenance and it should run and drive for quite a while yet.
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What’s the likelihood the computer is already set up to load such a program sent from the carmaker? The slowdown/stop or limp mode is a no brainer, certainly in every computer or at least easily loaded through the internet connection. FJBiden’s kill switch idea for cars is almost certainly already happening. It’s all about control, their control over you. The worse government makes things, socially and economically, the more control over individuals they demand, and take.
Also, if you fail to make payments and the car gets repo’ed, however it happens, tough rockos to you.
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Fords also went by found on road dead, fixed or repaired daily etc. But Fiat had them all beat with fix it again (and again and an again and so forth) Tony.
Philip K. Dick, as well as many others, warned us about Andys.
I can’t stand even automatic transmissions… no way in hell I’d buy a car that can supposedly drive itself. The world has gone completely bonkers.
The last good Fords were the 1996 F-150 with the straight 6.
Geoff,
Ya gatta Luv the Subaru’s.
Boring cars the don’t get stuck, reasonable dealerships, & almost as reliable as a Toyota.
Nice & boring.
We have 3 Subies and 1 Cadillac.
Anyone want to guess which one pisses a different fluid on the driveway every month?
Hint: It rimes with Pile of Crap.
Being Fair to Ford;
2011 – F150 = Excellent 5.0 V-8
2014 – F150 = excellent 5.0 V-8
2014 – E-250 Van – MONEY MAKER 5.4 V-8 – Love of my life
New shit – Have not touched one yet and will resist as long as possible.
They have been MUCH BETTER than our GM-SHIT in our experience.
I’m not a fan of the Ford V8. But I am biased. I have driven them and liked them, but I wouldn’t own one. And the Ford 2006 6 cylinder was a total piece of shit. The throttle bodies were skunk garbage, and the clutch was woeful bad. Not just the clutch, but how it was bled, and how it interfaced the pedal. And the fact that you could never get the old oil out of the heads and the valve timing adjusters exploded at 120 thousand miles.
I bought a ’97 F-150 with a 4.6L V8. Sold it to my son and he sold it to his employer. It is approaching 500,000 miles as a company truck. It looks like crap but it’s still going.
I haven’t owed a Ford in this entire century… and won’t due to their consistent unreliability (of you name it) of every Ford I’ve owned in the past, my neibors experiences, rentals that have broke down, company fleet vehicles where the Fords just dont bold up, etc. Ford needs to focus on quality and reliability rather than some trick feature… that will probably fail anyway. When yer cars disappears you’ll get a message that sez: “Your car has been re-poed to Larry Dickmans Used Cars”
Had a 98 F150, 4.2 V6, 5 speed manual transmission, other than suspension components and brakes only mishap was the serpentine belt tensioner. Michigan winter salt eventually took it off the road. I miss that truck. Drove it 17 years.
and the day will come when they auto-lock people out of their pod
Complieance
I had a 2000 Ranger until 2021, replaced it with a new Ranger.
It’s just fine.
suck dick, dindus
Had a Ford Granada, which was lovingly call the Grenade, for obvious reasons…