XRBloke

Yeah, the dealer told me yesturday that they will be replaced with a new light, but he didnt know if it was going to be a Foglamp as such, or what.

The colour coded plugs come with the hard cover, or if not, can be purchased through Ford spares, I think you will need to get them painted, and obviously drill the old ones out.

Hey Guys, Just had BA Futura at Q Ford today for its 5th service in 14 000 kms. Todays task was to rectify the following things: 1. Power Steer Belt Shreaded. 2. Sqeak in Brakes, seem much better now. Had discs machined at 7000 kms - no more shudder. 3. Brake Pedal noise everytime you touched it - they fixed that. 4. Parking lamps were suposed to be removed as they are illegal, new replacements arent available, so they were told to leave the originals till they can replace them. 5. Overall the car feels much better now after 14000 kms and this service, it has no more sqeaks, except for one in the rear when you plant it, but I think that's got to do with the suspension, has anyone else had this problem?

I was just wondering if anyone had any Information on the BA XT/Futura/Fairmont/Ghia foglamps that were banned. My local dealer told me today that they are being replaced with a new type which will be soon available. My Futura has the original ones, and im hopping that the new ones are Foglamps, rather then just parking lamps like they were.

All I can say from my experience with the SP9000's on the AUIII XR6 is that they are absolute rubbish, and because of the problems I had with them I replaced them after 11 000 km's. Im in the processing of looking at purchasing a BA XR6 Sedan with the 18inch rims, and one thing ill be having done to it before I pick it up is that ill be trading the SP9000's in, and I will get some Falkens put on it! Currently I have Falkeen's on the car, and most people would say that they are cheap garbish, ever since I put them on Ive never had to get another wheel alignment, and it steers beautiful (Its now done 20 000 kms, but I had to get like 4 wheel allignments done in the first 10 000 with the SP9000's). The BA Futura with the 17 inch rims (Fairmont Ghia Optionals) has the Dunlop Lemanns on it, and they will be going very SOOOOON as they are just as bad as the SP9000's.

I think more time shoudl have been spent on the BA, and as for the problems they have listed, they arent that huge anyways. Why doesnt drive go have a pick at Holden???? As for the BA Foglamps -- bahahahahaha they arent even Fog Lamps boys, they are parking lamps with 5 watt wedge type bulbs in them, the same wattage as those seen in your parkers and in the side indicators. Drive makes me laugh.

Hahaha here we go, thank god im not the only one. Well my AUIII - no its not a BA, but its close enough haha, neways has been to my local dealer three - yes three times in the passed two weeks to have gearbox issues looked at. Its an Auto and all I can say is that, Ford if that's the best you can do, you wont ever see me again, I also have a BA Futura and I can tell you after this service im not at all happy. The first day I took the XR6 in I was given a Loan car, which was dirty and smelt like somoene had taken a sh*t inside it literally, so I washed it as soon as I got home (yes im fussy but neways) I go back the next day to pick my XR up and Im told that sorry Sir the gearbox tech wasnt here, but I got one of the boys to talk to BTR about it and they seam to think its got a problem, can we rebook, so im like yep ill re - book for next monday and hes like fine (I said I wanted a loan car again). Neways I get to my belovered ute and hop inside to find that half the centre console has been pulled apart with my 2 phone kits and not screwed back together properly, that's fine I fixed it when I got home myself but it just shows how good they are with their stuff. Anyways I took it back for round two, drop it off and get offered an old GLI wagon as a loan car, so I soon said no thank you to that (I think I wanna live a bit longer). SO neways another day went by with no contact from them. Went to pick up in the arvo, Sir your car has not been done today, sorry but we had too much work on (which could be understandable considering I rebooked giving them two days notice) neways I take back for third shoot at it on monday, go to pick it up and wooolaaaaa, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG with the car, its a common problem / characteristic in all Falcon utes! My dealer loves saying common characteristic, do they learn this at the Ford Learning days?????? So im like well ive wasted three days. By the way I seem to always get my car back with a very low DTE reading, and once I caught them reving the sh*t out of the car when it was up on the hoist, is this standard practice? I actually had a go at the service manager once about the fuel consumption while the car was in his hands, and also let him know that I seen one of his so called mechanics doing about 200 kms on the service road just down from the dealership in his AUII XR8 sedan. If these clowns cant even look after their bosses cars, why should we expect them to look after ours? All I can say is ford buy back all your dealerships and run them internally, because the way things are going now, your getting alot of customer dissatisfaction. Maybe the AU wasn't such a bad car, maybe Ford just has a terrible service reputation!

From my experience the BA XR6 NA never came with LSD, while the Turbo came with LSD, rear power windows, rear grab handles, rear centre armrest.

I know most of these are possible, but come at great expense. For example the pin striping will cost you around $120 for each pinstripe for front and rear if you buy it from Ford. Things you might not be able to do include the clock on the dash, and the door lights!

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I feel a bit left out here not owning an XR6 Turbo

Thanks for that mate, By the way I am new around here, and everytime I click to go somewhere else I have to enter my password again, is this normal?

Hi, I was just wondering if FPV/Ford will be keeping the Blueprint colour? Thanks!