Xeno wrote:
> On 30/6/2023 6:05 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>> On 29/06/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>
>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>
>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>
>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>
>>
>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a
>> designer to make them look nice?
>>
> It's hard to make a *utilitarian vehicle* look *nice*.
>

not really

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On 30/6/2023 12:17 pm, alvey wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:05:45 +1000, Yosemite Sam wrote:
>
>> alvey wrote:
>>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:05:06 +1000, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a
>>>> designer to make them look nice?
>>> A design team of Michelangelo, Rodin & Sergio Pininfarina couldn't make
>>> *any* DCU look "nice". And anyway, if someone accidentaly *did* make
>>> one that "looked nice" then no one would buy it. No sensible people
>>> would touch it and the current, overwhelming demographic, are bogans
>>> with personality disorders who'd shuffle a mile to avoid anything
>>> "nice". They want vehicles that are big, tough and brutish. Just like
>>> they aren't.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> that's for sure. and noodles seems to be not short of a quid. $50k for
>> that truck thing and another $50k or so for this.
>
> It is for someone with no income. I suspect it's the wifes money.
>
>
> alvey

As I said in another post, I'm betting his wife's Santa Fe came off
lease so it was time to start another pre-tax money saving novated lease.

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(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Xeno wrote:
> On 30/6/2023 9:00 am, Noddy wrote:
>> On 30/06/2023 6:05 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>> On 29/06/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>>
>>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>>
>>>
>>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a
>>> designer to make them look nice?
>>
>> It's a dual cab ute. None of them look nice. Still, if having a
>> pretty car was important to me I'd buy something else.
>>
> Nah, the only thing that grabs you is the brutish image to
> *compensate* for your shortcomings!
>

trades persons buy those types of vehicles because they need them

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Xeno wrote:
> On 30/6/2023 12:17 pm, alvey wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:05:45 +1000, Yosemite Sam wrote:
>>
>>> alvey wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:05:06 +1000, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a
>>>>> designer to make them look nice?
>>>> A design team of Michelangelo, Rodin & Sergio Pininfarina couldn't
>>>> make
>>>> *any* DCU look "nice". And anyway, if someone accidentaly *did* make
>>>> one that "looked nice" then no one would buy it. No sensible people
>>>> would touch it and the current, overwhelming demographic, are bogans
>>>> with personality disorders who'd shuffle a mile to avoid anything
>>>> "nice". They want vehicles that are big, tough and brutish. Just like
>>>> they aren't.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> that's for sure. and noodles seems to be not short of a quid. $50k for
>>> that truck thing and another $50k or so for this.
>>
>> It is for someone with no income. I suspect it's the wifes money.
>>
>>
>> alvey
>
> As I said in another post, I'm betting his wife's Santa Fe came off
> lease so it was time to start another pre-tax money saving novated lease.
>
>

so the noodles camp has bought three new vehicles recently

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Yosemite Sam wrote:
> Trevor Wilson wrote:
>> On 29/06/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>
>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>
>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>
>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>
>>
>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a
>> designer to make them look nice?
>>
>
> Ugly seems to be the norm for those things
>

"aint nuttin will friten a Triton"

https://www.mitsubishi-motors.com.au/vehicles/triton.html

:)

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On 30/6/2023 12:37 pm, Yosemite Sam wrote:
> Xeno wrote:
>> On 30/6/2023 9:00 am, Noddy wrote:
>>> On 30/06/2023 6:05 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>>> On 29/06/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>>>
>>>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a
>>>> designer to make them look nice?
>>>
>>> It's a dual cab ute. None of them look nice. Still, if having a
>>> pretty car was important to me I'd buy something else.
>>>
>> Nah, the only thing that grabs you is the brutish image to
>> *compensate* for your shortcomings!
>>
>
> trades persons buy those types of vehicles because they need them
>
Indeed. My friend here has a Ranger Wildtrak but he has a need for such
a vehicle. Apart from towing his caravan, he uses it for maintenance
operations in the running of his resort. Another friend, service manager
of an automotive business here, also has a Ranger but he uses it to go
extreme bush! With its lift kit, *I* would have trouble climbing up into
that beast. Advice to Darren, don't get a lift kit, ladder will be
required!

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(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

On 30/6/2023 12:49 pm, Yosemite Sam wrote:
> Yosemite Sam wrote:
>> Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>> On 29/06/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>>
>>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>>
>>>
>>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a
>>> designer to make them look nice?
>>>
>>
>> Ugly seems to be the norm for those things
>>
>
> "aint nuttin will friten a Triton"
>
> https://www.mitsubishi-motors.com.au/vehicles/triton.html
>
> :)
>
That idiot driver would "friten" me.

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(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

On 29/06/2023 11:59 pm, Yosemite Sam wrote:
> Clocky wrote:
>> On 29/06/2023 2:54 pm, Xeno wrote:
>>> On 29/6/2023 3:26 pm, Daryl wrote:
>>>> On 29/6/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>>>
>>>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hope it was worth the wait:-)
>>>>
>>> It's a Ford, it probably won't be.
>>
>> Ford have already had to replace 9 of them for electrical issues they
>> could not resolve. Wonderful.
>
> I would never buy a Ford. not because they're not good cars, maybe they
> are I don't know, but simply because I could never trust any Ford dealer
> to service it properly, or Ford to support their customers with any
> issues. From my experience Ford dealerships employ the biggest bunch of
> bogans, shoddy sales persons, and know-nothing morons you're likely to
> find anywhere. that's consistent with their customer base tho I guess.
>

Yep, pretty much spot on. Ford customer service is awful at best and
non-existent in a lot of cases and has been that way for decades.

>>
>>
>>>  Hell of a lot better than a Nissan Navara however. No wait list on a
>>> Navara, that should tell you something. Both the (former) Navara
>>> owners here seem to have learnt their lesson.  ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well the Ranger is the new small penis compensating vehicle of choice
>> for classless bogans according to John Cadogan. Hard to argue with
>> that sentiment given the evidence presented in here :-)
>>
>
>

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Keithr0 wrote: "He made the assertion either he proves it or he is a
proven liar."

On Sept 23 2021 3:16:29pm Keithr0 wrote:
"He asserts that the claim is true, so, if it is unproven, he is lying."

On 29/06/2023 4:54 pm, Xeno wrote:
> On 29/6/2023 3:26 pm, Daryl wrote:
>> On 29/6/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>
>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>
>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>
>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hope it was worth the wait:-)
>>
> It's a Ford, it probably won't be. Hell of a lot better than a Nissan
> Navara however.

How would you know, shit-fer-brains? I'd have a navara over a beige
little shopping trolley corolla anyday...

> No wait list on a Navara,

Really, shit-fer-brains? Just more lies...

> that should tell you something.

https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/nissan-wait-times-2023
or even
https://pricemycar.com.au/delivery-dates/nissan/navara

That should tell *you* something, you dumb, ill-informed bullshit artist...

(Duly added to the Tomas Clasener Tome of Lies: Nissan Chapter.)

On 30/06/2023 1:59 am, Yosemite Sam wrote:
> Clocky wrote:
>> On 29/06/2023 2:54 pm, Xeno wrote:
>>> On 29/6/2023 3:26 pm, Daryl wrote:
>>>> On 29/6/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>>>
>>>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hope it was worth the wait:-)
>>>>
>>> It's a Ford, it probably won't be.
>>
>> Ford have already had to replace 9 of them for electrical issues they
>> could not resolve. Wonderful.
>
> I would never buy a Ford. not because they're not good cars, maybe they
> are I don't know, but simply because I could never trust any Ford dealer
> to service it properly, or Ford to support their customers with any
> issues.

Dont feel bad. Ford arent the only mob to spear their customers in the
back. I had my Nissan serviced once at the stealership, and Never again.
I had to get problems rectified by going to Nissan's head office (was in
Dandenong) because the fucking cocksucking cunts at Brighton Nissan
wouldnt honour the warranty. And the head of the service dept was a
cretin. Ford arent alone here...

From my experience Ford dealerships employ the biggest bunch of
> bogans, shoddy sales persons, and know-nothing morons you're likely to
> find anywhere. that's consistent with their customer base tho I guess.

What experiance have you had with Ford dealerships?

>
>>
>>
>>>  Hell of a lot better than a Nissan Navara however. No wait list on a
>>> Navara, that should tell you something. Both the (former) Navara
>>> owners here seem to have learnt their lesson.  ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well the Ranger is the new small penis compensating vehicle of choice
>> for classless bogans according to John Cadogan. Hard to argue with
>> that sentiment given the evidence presented in here :-)
>>
>
>

On 29/06/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>
> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of information
> to work out how to use all of it's features.
>
>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU

Nice. Like white, doesnt show the tree scratches, :-)
>
> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
> delays of up to three months.

Some of those ships were at webb dock for weeks.... Jesus...
>

On 30/06/2023 9:00 am, Noddy wrote:
> On 30/06/2023 6:05 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>> On 29/06/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>
>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>
>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>
>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>
>>
>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a
>> designer to make them look nice?
>
> It's a dual cab ute. None of them look nice. Still, if having a pretty
> car was important to me I'd buy something else.

I'f you'd have bought a Lambo, the FLC would still pick on it, because
it's yours. Wonder how they would have reacted if you'd bought a hilux?
>

On 30/06/2023 4:11 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 30/06/2023 9:00 am, Noddy wrote:

>> It's a dual cab ute. None of them look nice. Still, if having a pretty
>> car was important to me I'd buy something else.
>
> I'f you'd have bought a Lambo, the FLC would still pick on it, because
> it's yours. Wonder how they would have reacted if you'd bought a hilux?

Wouldn't matter what it was. They'd whinge about it regardless as their
relevance deprivation eats away at them like a cancer :)

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Regards,
Noddy.

On 30/06/2023 3:50 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 29/06/2023 4:54 pm, Xeno wrote:
>
>> It's a Ford, it probably won't be. Hell of a lot better than a Nissan
>> Navara however.
>
> How would you know, shit-fer-brains? I'd have a navara over a beige
> little shopping trolley corolla anyday...

Yeah, so would I, but you, me and everyone else around here knows full
well that this ridiculous moron doesn't know shit from shoe polish and
is only making a noise in a pathetic attempt to conceal his complete
irrelevance.

>> No wait list on a Navara,
>
> Really, shit-fer-brains? Just more lies...
>
>> that should tell you something.
>
> https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/nissan-wait-times-2023
> or even
> https://pricemycar.com.au/delivery-dates/nissan/navara
>
> That should tell *you* something, you dumb, ill-informed bullshit artist...
>
> (Duly added to the Tomas Clasener Tome of Lies: Nissan Chapter.)

ROTFL :)

Jeez, for the "Master" that he thinks he is, he's not doing too well,
huh? Doesn't know shit about bluetooth, Canbus speeds or code scanners,
and now despite all his noise he *clearly* has no fucking idea what's
going on in the car market.

I wonder if there's anything he's actually *good* at? I mean, aside from
pretending that the voices in his head are real people :)

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Regards,
Noddy.

On 30/06/2023 4:05 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 30/06/2023 1:59 am, Yosemite Sam wrote:

>> I would never buy a Ford. not because they're not good cars, maybe
>> they are I don't know, but simply because I could never trust any Ford
>> dealer to service it properly, or Ford to support their customers with
>> any issues.
>
>
> Dont feel bad. Ford arent the only mob to spear their customers in the
> back. I had my Nissan serviced once at the stealership, and Never again.
> I had to get problems rectified by going to Nissan's head office (was in
> Dandenong) because the fucking cocksucking cunts at Brighton Nissan
> wouldnt honour the warranty. And the head of the service dept was a
> cretin. Ford arent alone here...

Maybe he could ask Toyota owners about having to resort to bringing
about a class action against the company after they flat out refused to
accept liability for their faults?

Don't get me started on Mitsubishi :)

>  From my experience Ford dealerships employ the biggest bunch of
>> bogans, shoddy sales persons, and know-nothing morons you're likely to
>> find anywhere. that's consistent with their customer base tho I guess.
>
> What experiance have you had with Ford dealerships?

He probably got charged a buck over the mark for a spark plug 40 years
ago, and that's enough for him to conclude that *every* person who ever
worked at a Ford dealership is a lying, thieving cunt who can't be trusted.

Do you want to tell him that his buddy Clasener worked for a Ford
dealer, or shall I? :)

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Regards,
Noddy.

On 30/06/2023 4:06 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 29/06/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>
>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>
>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>
> Nice. Like white, doesnt show the tree scratches, :-)

I don't mind white. It's fairly easy and doesn't date as quickly as
other colours. I would have happily had the Metallic Blue which I think
is the best colour in the range, but for some bizarre reason known only
to Ford it's not available in the Wildtrak range. You can get it on
anything else, just not the Wildtrak which I don't get at all.

Didn't want another black car as it shows the dirt up *way* too easily,
and didn't fancy any of the other colours so white it is.

>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>> delays of up to three months.
>
> Some of those ships were at webb dock for weeks.... Jesus...

The shipping companies are hating it, and so is Ford.

Had a good chat with the new car sales manager at the dealership
yesterday, and he said the hold up is costing Ford a motza. They get
charged 220 bucks per car per day while they're on the wharf, and an
extra 500 bucks per car if they need to be cleaned for quarantine
requirements.

They're not happy.

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On 30/06/2023 8:56 am, alvey wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:05:06 +1000, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>
>
>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a designer
>> to make them look nice?
>
> A design team of Michelangelo, Rodin & Sergio Pininfarina couldn't make
> *any* DCU look "nice".
What have the Ninja Turtles to do with this?

On 30/06/2023 10:41 am, Noddy wrote:
> On 30/06/2023 9:50 am, Keithr0 wrote:
>> On 30/06/2023 9:21 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>
>>>
>>> **I get that, but they're all so damned ugly. If Range Rover can make
>>> their things looks quite decent from the front, surely others can as
>>> well. The Dodge Ram stands out as the ugliest POS on the road,
>>> followed closely by those Mitsubishi monstrosities. What the fuck is
>>> all that chrome for anyway?
>>>
>> There seems to be a competition among car manufacturers as to who can
>> make the fugliest front end. Once Lexus had the field to itself, then
>> Mercedes got in on the act by putting teeth on the front, now BMW have
>> joined in by blowing up their traditional radiator shape to monstrous
>> proportions.
>
> Agreed. They're all doing it these days, and some of the stuff they come
> up with is *woeful*. I saw a woman drive past me in a carpark the other
> day in a relatively new Beemer and I just shook my head and thought
> "Wow. You must *really* want a BMW to put up with owning something
> *that* ugly".
>
> I take back everything I ever said about your MX-5. Compared to anything
> around today it's positively stylish :)
>
>> The original reason for putting chrome on the front of the car was
>> that it doesn't get chipped by flying gravel like paint does.
>
> To a degree. It doesn't mark as easily as paint but it still marks, and
> when it does unlike paint it can't be touched up. It's a very thin layer
> of evaporated chrome over black plastic, and it gets pock marked with
> black dots once road debris breaks through the chrome.
>
> Our Santa Fe doesn't have a lot of chrome on the front, but the small
> amount that it does have suffers from highway gravel rash.

Like I said originally, back in the days when the chrome was plated on
steel.

On 30/6/2023 4:48 pm, Noddy wrote:
>
> He probably got charged a buck over the mark for a spark plug 40 years
> ago, and that's enough for him to conclude that *every* person who ever
> worked at a Ford dealership is a lying, thieving cunt who can't be trusted.
>
> Do you want to tell him that his buddy Clasener worked for a Ford
> dealer, or shall I? :)
>
Don't forget to mention that I wasn't in a dealership for long on any
occasion other than at a Holden dealership. I was in the truck division
of a Holden dealership for 18 months compared to 3 months in one Ford
Dealership and 6 months in another. That should tell you something - but
I expect you will distort it, or lie, as you always do.

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(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

On 30/6/2023 4:43 pm, Noddy wrote:

>
> Yeah, so would I, but you, me and everyone else around here knows full
> well that this ridiculous moron doesn't know shit from shoe polish and
> is only making a noise in a pathetic attempt to conceal his complete
> irrelevance.

Darren, you're projecting again. You've never been relevant to the motor
trade in your entire life.

>
> ROTFL :)
>
> Jeez, for the "Master" that he thinks he is, he's not doing too well,
> huh? Doesn't know shit about bluetooth, Canbus speeds or code scanners,
> and now despite all his noise he *clearly* has no fucking idea what's
> going on in the car market.

Nissan has never been on my radar and it appears I'm not alone, the far
greater proportion of the car buying public think just like I do - and,
after your experience with Nissan, your thinking as well.
>
> I wonder if there's anything he's actually *good* at? I mean, aside from
> pretending that the voices in his head are real people :)
>
Delusions are your bag!

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(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

On 30/6/2023 4:39 pm, Noddy wrote:

>
> Wouldn't matter what it was. They'd whinge about it regardless as their
> relevance deprivation eats away at them like a cancer :)
>
If you bought a Hilux Darren, I'd have thought you'd finally found
suitable treatment for your delusional narcissism. Alas, for your
narcissism there is no cure.

--
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Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

On 30/6/2023 4:55 pm, Noddy wrote:

>
> I don't mind white. It's fairly easy and doesn't date as quickly as
> other colours. I would have happily had the Metallic Blue which I think
> is the best colour in the range, but for some bizarre reason known only
> to Ford it's not available in the Wildtrak range. You can get it on
> anything else, just not the Wildtrak which I don't get at all.
>
> Didn't want another black car as it shows the dirt up *way* too easily,
> and didn't fancy any of the other colours so white it is.

Could have told you that Darren. My *experience* in the trade showed me
that black cars are too hot and show up dirt. In fact, I'm sure you were
told that at the time you bought that POS. Sadly, you relied on your
*delusions*, you know, the ones that cause you to think you're a
qualified tradie.
>
> The shipping companies are hating it, and so is Ford.
>
> Had a good chat with the new car sales manager at the dealership
> yesterday, and he said the hold up is costing Ford a motza. They get
> charged 220 bucks per car per day while they're on the wharf, and an
> extra 500 bucks per car if they need to be cleaned for quarantine
> requirements.
>
> They're not happy.
>
>

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Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

On 30/6/2023 4:05 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 30/06/2023 1:59 am, Yosemite Sam wrote:
>> Clocky wrote:
>>> On 29/06/2023 2:54 pm, Xeno wrote:
>>>> On 29/6/2023 3:26 pm, Daryl wrote:
>>>>> On 29/6/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>>>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>>>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's
>>>>>> causing delays of up to three months.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope it was worth the wait:-)
>>>>>
>>>> It's a Ford, it probably won't be.
>>>
>>> Ford have already had to replace 9 of them for electrical issues they
>>> could not resolve. Wonderful.
>>
>> I would never buy a Ford. not because they're not good cars, maybe
>> they are I don't know, but simply because I could never trust any Ford
>> dealer to service it properly, or Ford to support their customers with
>> any issues.
>
>
> Dont feel bad. Ford arent the only mob to spear their customers in the
> back. I had my Nissan serviced once at the stealership, and Never again.
> I had to get problems rectified by going to Nissan's head office (was in
> Dandenong) because the fucking cocksucking cunts at Brighton Nissan
> wouldnt honour the warranty. And the head of the service dept was a
> cretin. Ford arent alone here...
>
>  From my experience Ford dealerships employ the biggest bunch of
>> bogans, shoddy sales persons, and know-nothing morons you're likely to
>> find anywhere. that's consistent with their customer base tho I guess.
>
> What experiance have you had with Ford dealerships?

Very likely none.
Bad dealer experiences aren't anyway limited to Ford dealers.
Never had an issue with the actual work at Subaru but their service up
selling tactics targeting women is disgraceful.

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On 30/6/2023 5:43 pm, Keithr0 wrote:
> On 30/06/2023 10:41 am, Noddy wrote:
>> On 30/06/2023 9:50 am, Keithr0 wrote:
>>> On 30/06/2023 9:21 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> **I get that, but they're all so damned ugly. If Range Rover can
>>>> make their things looks quite decent from the front, surely others
>>>> can as well. The Dodge Ram stands out as the ugliest POS on the
>>>> road, followed closely by those Mitsubishi monstrosities. What the
>>>> fuck is all that chrome for anyway?
>>>>
>>> There seems to be a competition among car manufacturers as to who can
>>> make the fugliest front end. Once Lexus had the field to itself, then
>>> Mercedes got in on the act by putting teeth on the front, now BMW
>>> have joined in by blowing up their traditional radiator shape to
>>> monstrous proportions.
>>
>> Agreed. They're all doing it these days, and some of the stuff they
>> come up with is *woeful*. I saw a woman drive past me in a carpark the
>> other day in a relatively new Beemer and I just shook my head and
>> thought "Wow. You must *really* want a BMW to put up with owning
>> something *that* ugly".
>>
>> I take back everything I ever said about your MX-5. Compared to
>> anything around today it's positively stylish :)
>>
>>> The original reason for putting chrome on the front of the car was
>>> that it doesn't get chipped by flying gravel like paint does.
>>
>> To a degree. It doesn't mark as easily as paint but it still marks,
>> and when it does unlike paint it can't be touched up. It's a very thin
>> layer of evaporated chrome over black plastic, and it gets pock marked
>> with black dots once road debris breaks through the chrome.
>>
>> Our Santa Fe doesn't have a lot of chrome on the front, but the small
>> amount that it does have suffers from highway gravel rash.
>
> Like I said originally, back in the days when the chrome was plated on
> steel.
>
Most of us almost aren't old enough to remember chrome steel bumpers:-)
On locally made cars that would have the late 70's, XC Falcons and VB
Commodores?

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On 30/6/2023 4:11 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 30/06/2023 9:00 am, Noddy wrote:
>> On 30/06/2023 6:05 am, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>>> On 29/06/2023 3:20 pm, Noddy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> About bloody time. Now I just have to wade through pages of
>>>> information to work out how to use all of it's features.
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.imagebam.com/view/MEMEDIU
>>>>
>>>> Got lucky with this apparently. The ship it was on didn't have any
>>>> quarantine issues, but ships either side of it did and it's causing
>>>> delays of up to three months.
>>>>
>>>
>>> **I'm sure it's very nice, but surely Ford can afford to pay a
>>> designer to make them look nice?
>>
>> It's a dual cab ute. None of them look nice. Still, if having a pretty
>> car was important to me I'd buy something else.
>
> I'f you'd have bought a Lambo, the FLC would still pick on it, because
> it's yours. Wonder how they would have reacted if you'd bought a hilux?
>>
>

Should have bought a Porsche, much better looking:-)

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