Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation
There was a request for a link to Ford's answer's to the NHTSA investigation posted on a previous thread, since closed. Here is the link: Ford's NHTSA Answers to the 6.7 investigation This PDF i...
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Reporting bias it is called.
Ever go to reunions of high school, universities, etc.?
Over the years, more and more people (who have no hot new achievement) do not show up.
Forums tend to attract people with real or imagined problems.
More often than not, the reporting is entirely one sided.... complaints of a blown Head Gasket is never accompanied with the report that they used a tuner, or nitrous, etc.
Forum reading require careful sorting of the posts to figure out who is a whinner, who is a finger pointer, who is a wiseacre, and then the hardest, who is not talking.
The ones that are not talking are the ones who blew up their 6.7, had warranty voided, and then fixed it (as best as they can) then unloaded it as a cream puff to the used car lot --- hoping some sucker do not check the factory warranty status (voided) before money changed hands.
Forums also attract advertisers who flog "add ons" that appear to be miracle solution to problems. The problem is, many of them don't work, or cause damage elsewhere, but because the advertisers advertise, any opposition to what they are flogging is quietly squelched.
Rickatic has been squelched because he is starting to cost people money in trade in values of their 6.7, and he wouldn't quietly go away.
They (many forums) then ganged up on him.
That doesn't mean rick didn't have a problem --- and a legit one.
Now just wait... if one of the vendors that normally advertise on those forums get a "miracle" solution to the Bosch cp 4 pump, i.e. by installing an add on that only cost $5,000 --- and is willing to ADVERTISE in the forum... just watch the views suddenly change, and rick welcomed as the dollars dance in the eyes of the forum owners and administrators.
As for what you don't hear about much:
For example, bet you never heard of the capacitor caper?
Or the tin whiskers problem?
Both of these issues cost hundreds of millions (if not billions).
But you will never hear of it.... unless you know where to look.
The tin whiskers issue has been suspected in some of the biggest problems in the past decade... including certain vehicles that decided to have a mind of its own.
Ever go to reunions of high school, universities, etc.?
Over the years, more and more people (who have no hot new achievement) do not show up.
Forums tend to attract people with real or imagined problems.
More often than not, the reporting is entirely one sided.... complaints of a blown Head Gasket is never accompanied with the report that they used a tuner, or nitrous, etc.
Forum reading require careful sorting of the posts to figure out who is a whinner, who is a finger pointer, who is a wiseacre, and then the hardest, who is not talking.
The ones that are not talking are the ones who blew up their 6.7, had warranty voided, and then fixed it (as best as they can) then unloaded it as a cream puff to the used car lot --- hoping some sucker do not check the factory warranty status (voided) before money changed hands.
Forums also attract advertisers who flog "add ons" that appear to be miracle solution to problems. The problem is, many of them don't work, or cause damage elsewhere, but because the advertisers advertise, any opposition to what they are flogging is quietly squelched.
Rickatic has been squelched because he is starting to cost people money in trade in values of their 6.7, and he wouldn't quietly go away.
They (many forums) then ganged up on him.
That doesn't mean rick didn't have a problem --- and a legit one.
Now just wait... if one of the vendors that normally advertise on those forums get a "miracle" solution to the Bosch cp 4 pump, i.e. by installing an add on that only cost $5,000 --- and is willing to ADVERTISE in the forum... just watch the views suddenly change, and rick welcomed as the dollars dance in the eyes of the forum owners and administrators.
As for what you don't hear about much:
For example, bet you never heard of the capacitor caper?
Or the tin whiskers problem?
Both of these issues cost hundreds of millions (if not billions).
But you will never hear of it.... unless you know where to look.
The tin whiskers issue has been suspected in some of the biggest problems in the past decade... including certain vehicles that decided to have a mind of its own.
