Having been apprenticed at a BL dealer and then self employed I went through this same process at a Ford main dealer and started in Feb. '79, just after the strike. The customer abuse was virtually non stop; a lot of people had been waiting over a year for parts and, about two months after I started, Ford announced that they had cancelled all previously submitted parts orders and so our company tore up all the (paper) records! To top it all the winter was a very bad one and we towed dead cars in one after the other which sat for weeks until we could look at them. I stayed for six years (it nearly killed me) before moving to Peugeot and a totally different (humane) philosophy.
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3000 mile oil changes were pretty much the norm for decades, and is still preferred. The claimed 10,000 mile acceptable interval on some cars today is misleading. Even full-synthetic oil usually doesn't last that long. Chassis lubrication was an annual or biannual event, unless a vehicle was used extremely hard, as in taxi service. Sometimes, more frequent adjustments to ignition points and carburettor linkage were required, but not usually all that often if competent mechanics maintained the vehicle. Of course, what do I know. I've only been an ASE Certified Master for 35+ years. I also own multiple antique vehicles, every one having in excess of 200,000 miles on the clock, and only a couple have required major work necessitated by normal wear.
I can remember a valve grind once a year and working on my Ford most weekends so I could drive it to work for the week.. Those were the days... Thank God they are gone now.. MK 1s broke rear axels.. Mk2s were bad on retaining clips on top gear.. Jumped out of top gear.. MK3s were almost good.. LOL
Gilbert Harding used to appear on a tv programme called what's my line not very old when he died . i wish i had the early mk2 zephyr very rare today 1956 with a flat panel at the rear . rare
I had a Ford Zephyr in the sixties as my first car. It was awesome! If you couldn’t afford a Jag, the Zephyr was the fastest car you could get. I later bought a mkll Zodiac - that was wild ,
my dad was a ford user cars and lorries as a child i remember bonneted 4d Thames ,Thames trader the d series was a vast improvement ford squire popular ,so i bought a ford 105 Anglia estate disaster camshaft went at less than 46thousand miles requiring a new engine and my loyalty to ford replaced with Hillman Hunter
For every honest customer who has a real problem there is always the chancers who want everything for nothing.And these days youre targeted to sell everything but the kitchen sink
