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Regards,
Boris
April.. Try another dealership. Technician experience along with quality of service can vary widly from dealership to dealership. Let us know what happens....
system causes my car to lock up for over an hour. I've talked with the service people and they all give me different answers to this problem. First they told me the problem was in the keys, then the controller was bad, next the electrical system, and now the clutch switch. This is very frustating.
I checked with dealer he says its normal on other tribute too.
It looks like dealer has let me down..he has my hard cash and is no longer interested after sale service..?
Has someone seen this problem..?
My service guy has told the same. i.e. it's normal.
AC works fine, engine runs ok so I believe him.
Imran
When it rains and you are driving on a wet road.. do you think the exhaust pipe and converter get wet??
I'm no tire expert, I've got 37.5K miles on my '01 Escape with the same tires. At present,
the tires seem to be wearing well, I think mainly d/t proper rotation and alignment. However,
I've never gotten more than 50K from any set of OEM tires regardless of brand.
I intend on changing out my tires at about 45K anyway. Most of the useful life would have
been achieved from the originals.
Odie
It has stalled on her twice now, once about a year ago and once last week. The dealer "swore" he had fixed it last time and no doubt he will "swear" again he has fixed it when we pick it up tomorrow. My wife will not believe him and wants to get rid of the car. This is a shame because she loves it.
My question is: Is there a true fix for this problem and if so what do we need to do to insure ourselves that the dealer has fixed it properly? Or do we trade in the lemon and pray for the poor sucker who ends up with it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Anyone else?
I do not know why when a "better fix" came along they would not warn us that the old fix wasn't the one we needed.
The symptoms both times were identical, the engine stalled when going downhill at about 35-45 miles/hour.
We owned the car for a year befor the first incident occured.
If any other info would be helpful let me know.
Thanks,
Buyer Beware!!
Ray
Make sure you burn it as a music cd, and not a data cd
all the disks in my 6 disk player are burnt
Odie
Best,
Herb
A shade tree mechanic told me to have the dealer replace the fuel filter. It took some convincing, but the chief mechanic finally relented and changed it. I never had another lick of trouble.
Sometimes it's the simple things that cause the big headaches.
Best,
Herb
On a Dodge Mirada? I assume you mean you never had trouble with that part again.
Hopefully, you're under warranty, as this can be labor intensive to find.
Norm
Steve
Here is why I decided on the tribute. As much as I like Honda cars, I hate the Honda dealership experience. They will usually give you the worst Trade-in value and they don't lower their cars price much. I walked into a Mazda dealer and got exactly what KBB said I should get for my trade-in. Good luck getting that from a Honda dealer.
The trade-in value on the Tribute is not as good as the CRV. So if you are going to replace it in a couple of years... keep that in mind. My tribute had an oil leak from the oil pan @ 900 miles... the dealer fixed it after 2 trys. I heard the 04 model will have the shifter on the floor. I should have waited for this change... Anyway if you plane on carrying bikes or towing, you can't beat the Tribute (3500lbs) with tow package. Take a long test drive before you buy it. May be you should rent an Escape/Tribute for a couple of days so you can drive it for an extended period of time and then make up your mind. The 4 year bumper-to-bumper warranty / loner car program and road side assistance also helped in my decision of buying the Tribute.
Good luck
What is the "Kelley Blue Book" Price?
Steve, Host
Thanks
I do know that dish soap + elbow grease does not work.
Steve, Host
Pep Boys should have it if you need it. I've also heard of some product called Back to Black but I haven't used it.
Odie