Will 2024 Ford Mustang Be Reliable? Dealers Demand Better, Lower Price
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มี.ค. 2024
- Let's talk about the 2024 Ford Mustang. Will the new Mustang be reliable? Ford dealers sure hope so and they are telling Ford executives as much during the next few weeks.
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Short, to the point, full of great information…love it Tim, thank you.
Oh, how I miss my '92, 5.0, notchback.
Good info. I think the concise summary is that the 10-speed does not have a hardware issue. It is a software issue. Thus Ford has a software engineering issue.
Until they figure out the common code failures between the use platforms of this 10-speed transmission, customers will continue to suffer.
The good news is that software fixes are easy to implement. The bad news is that unlike hardware you have to scrub millions of lines of code to isolate and fix the problem.
As a 2024 owner, to say that I’m disgusted with Ford would be kind and gentle. The issue on day one (one hour after it was home from the dealer) I discovered there was piles of gravel trapped between the under chassis protection and chassis. The cause is an opening directly behind the front wheels in the inner wheel wells. I’ve posted several videos on TH-cam about this and have fixed the issue myself. Ford will not acknowledge the issue at all. The dealer recognizes it and acknowledges it and we went through the process of “documenting” it with corporate which basically amounts to nothing. We have owned other performance vehicle none of which have a self filling gravel option.
So basically after spending 60k, you can start fixing their design flaws.
The Ford dealership in my town got 8 new Mustangs since Sept. '23, 1 Dark Horse (still not sold) and 7 premium GT's in 4 different colors. They've sold 2 so far and they have roughly 3k BELOW MSRP on the remaining cars since February. Nobody around my area seems to want them, and this is a pretty dominant Ford area. I ordered my '23 Mustang exactly how I wanted it in 2022 after the reveal, and traded my '21 on it December '22. I have no interest in the new Mustang, its just another thing in a long line of things Ford has been doing wrong since 2018 in my opinion. My '23 is likely the last new Ford (I've bought 6 new Ford cars in my life) I ever buy unless they get back to honoring some quality basics and some legacy issues (like naming an ugly EV with the iconic Mustang name).