We have a 1994 Ford Taurus Station wagon that surprisingly has required very little maintenance over the years since we bought it used from Hertz in 1995. But every now and then you need to fix something a shopping cart breaks in a parking lot or that breaks like the door panel screws due to heavy use. It has only been 14 years,,,and we had this problem at only 12 years too,,,does Ford expect us to buy a new car when the old one still works?! Ford's yellow pages motto of "built to last" is hollow if you can not buy small replacement parts !! After just 10-12 years , you call a Ford dealership parts department and ask for a part and you are like to hear the same thing ,over and over, "That part is OBSOLETE."
Well, if the Ford family is rich enough to buy back all the stock and take it private, maybe that is what they should do, as you would think an American car company would stock parts for at least 15-20 years. We can not get a turn signal lens, nor a rear hatch latch. And you know they are fuzzy accounting making tons of money profit!!
So forget Ford !! They own Lincoln, Mercury, Mazda, Volvo, Jaguar,and Land Rover, too, remember.
