Snapped A Driveshaft

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$3200 for a new driveshaft FFS that's pricey.

Piss poor effort from ford there, another sale lost

[Ralph Wiggum]

Fording in a Ford perhaps? hahaha.

*fjording

[hypnodoc]

Bottom line is that the tailshaft broke, it may be a rare occourence, but the car is bog standard and has just over 30,000 klms on it and is not driven hard, has never been under water or through a Fjord. It is just the all too often crap service from Ford so they can take the rope and hang themselves. They won't even communicate after they decided that they were not going to cover it. Real concern for customer service and product safety, its a bloody joke really. At the end of the day the driveshafts are probably Chinese made POS that cost them $150.

[Wenier]

Very poor effort from fraud there. So being a R spec its probably an 2008 build?? which would make it only 3 years old, therefore by law you would expect that a car driven normally would not break a driveshaft in this time and should definitely be a warranty item.

I hope your business partner really takes them to the cleaners over this and sorts em out.

Dont let it go that's for sure.

Keep us all posted.

[1600dave]

was it the dealer that said no straight up, or did they look into it at all?

Maybe try another dealer? Get professional opinions from proper driveshaft shop, or arronm.

So is it fixed yet or waiting on ford still?

Chuck some photos up, I want to see what we're relying on to transfer the huge amounts of torque some guys are making.

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[hypnodoc]

was it the dealer that said no straight up, or did they look into it at all?

Maybe try another dealer? Get professional opinions from proper driveshaft shop, or arronm.

So is it fixed yet or waiting on ford still?

Chuck some photos up, I want to see what we're relying on to transfer the huge amounts of torque some guys are making.

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Hey 1600 Dave I asked him and this is the response "I would but Metro ford has the car and the mechanic there and ford Australia knocked it back." He is just lawyering up to take them to the cleaners. He's from a very wealthy Italian family and they DO NOT like being dudded. After Fords attitude with this I won't be going back to them for anything again.

[hypnodoc]

Actually it was Ford ciustomer NO relations that knocked it back in cahoots with the Metro Ford mechanic. The said they had rung the Ford mec and were waiting for his opinion and he told John they hadn't rung at all, so obviously they have a strong Policy of worming out of everything they can, so its off to ACA with with matter. What a CARNT of a company, we spent a million dollars on their cars over 2 years and they do this. I'm glad they got hammered at Bathurst and I hope their sales keep falling like they deserve to. The worst thing is that if its an endemnic fault then someone is going to end up getting badly hurt and they are not interested in even sending a rep to look at it, obviously profit before anything else and maximum denial. The thing was only 6 months out of warranty and the driveshaft should last at least 500,000klm, even if it had been given a hard time which it hasn't then it should still be able to handle anything thrown at it. You have to wonder if they have used the same POS shaft in the new GTs. As far as I'm concerned after their attitude they can go get Farked.

[turbotrana]

Pictures would help. You can't entirely blame Ford. Anyone would be a sceptic breaking a driveshaft under normal driving. How often does a shaft rust from the inside out. So maybe a few pictures to Ford of the rusted section might get the message thru that its an abnormal event.

Nevertheless if its only a section of tube that is the problem and the rest of the shaft OK then just get the tube replaced for a couple of hundred.

[hypnodoc]

Pictures would help. You can't entirely blame Ford. Anyone would be a sceptic breaking a driveshaft under normal driving. How often does a shaft rust from the inside out. So maybe a few pictures to Ford of the rusted section might get the message thru that its an abnormal event.

Nevertheless if its only a section of tube that is the problem and the rest of the shaft OK then just get the tube replaced for a couple of hundred.

Hey turbotrana blame is not the point, they can check the ecu to see if the car has been hammered and it hasn't. They are just not interested in how it broke so they can go and get farked and suck it up with an attitude like that. Even if the car had been abused a driveshaft SHOULD NOT break especially at 30,000klm

[6speedXR8]

We have seen quite a few of these tailshafts broken and we usually build new complete tailshafts using chrome moly tube, if he does no good I can build him a shaft.

The tailshafts are very poor quality and even though I have an FG GT that has only 19,000 on it I am going to build a New Shaft for it just to be sure.

Regards, Mal