Time to boycot Ford Transits

[Octopus]

So Ford are closing the "home" of the transit and moving assembly to Turkey.

Should us traders not boycot the Transit?

Discuss

 

[SYKRAPS]

And DNS1 if you drove to screwfix with the cost of fuel he was probably cheaper in the long run

 

[SYKRAPS]

:auto::auto:

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Ideally, Yes.

Ok, they're shutting these plants down, Ford is Yank company, most of the Fords are made in Germany.
What is it in Geordieland, Nissan? British made....

We live in a global village now, the global economy is fooked, they have to cut costs, technology moves on (remember the Wapping!)
Stop whinging and get on with it!

you almost made me think we were at the hub of something there archy....
more`s the pity...lol...

 

[Shropshire]

Transporter and Vitos are where the quality lies.

 

[MDJ]

No idea, can't imagine it to be a lot, fitting you can do your self, the trim around the lever comes away from the dash and the foam just hangs over the mechanism.
Also if I remember correctly the knob doesn't unscrew like older models, you pull the gaiter up and there's a cable tie holding the small end of the gaiter. Ie the knob stays on the mechanism.

Hi-Will,

I reckon without doubt your right, what concerns me is one why don't they fu**ing fit them as standard when in the factory and 2 if I did do it myself would the warrenty be affected at all?

 

[electric will]

I don't know mate, guess its al about saving a few quid, I'm sure the model the mod was designed for (6 speed rwd I think) it was a tsb( technical service bulletin,) which would have Ben covered by warranty. It was the lads in workshops le me who discovered it worked on other models.
i was a for master technician for ten years and this sort of thing was very common.

 

[oxford 12]

vauxhall is general motors from the usa

 

[vaughant]

Hmmm some interesting replies.
Shame to see the sot'on plant go as we used to do a lot of business with them in the good old days of transit production at Swansea ford plant.
Yes,turkey have been involved with transit production for many years,their quality is dismal compared to the Southampton ones but yes it was all a giant cover up to get the production moved out to turkey.
We made the brake discs for the front wheel drive transit and the Turks constantly sent the discs back claiming they were "out of spec".
Bear in mind we made these parts to a spec within a 10 microns tolerance of spec which is incredibly tight.
I was asked to make the "perfect" set of brake discs to send out,everything to zero spec,which we did,no stone left unturned.
The Turks rejected them for a 0.02 micron radius out of spec,we didn't even have the equipment to measure this and we knew for certain the Turks didn't.
We lost the contract for the latest shape transit due to these tolerance and other issues,none of any real significance.
The **** they then had to send to us for assembly was so bad we actually ran out of room in the area to put the scrap,appalling.
theres only actually about 200 "books in" ford employees at Southampton plant,so the others won't be getting much of a payout plus if you do 25 years for a firm should you not get anything?
ford are a great company to work for,good pay/benefits etc but they love to run on fear,the less you know about the politics,the better.the unions will always have a big say in ford,but when you work there not a day goes by without management coming up with yet another way of trying to spoil any sort of good thing that's going on ,even if it was in their favour,it's a constant game of cat and mouse and it grinds a lot of people down.
Feel how you want about their payout or whatever guys,it's yet another kick in the balls for British industry.