In my opinion I don't really care if it is only happening to 10 or 12 reportedly. They dropped one of the bolts, there are broken bolts, and I'm simply not willing to take a chance with a tuned power train. They designed it with two bolts for a reason in the first place. I am an engineer ...
I do believe if you are keeping your vehicle stock there is probably very little chance of it ever braking.
As an engineer, you're aware that you're given a set of standards to design for. If a dozen breaks occurs out of tens and tens of thousands, then that would seem like well within design parameters. And if most of those breaks occurred on tuned vehicles, then as an engineer you'd understand that those customers modified their cars to sustain tolerances well beyond manufacturers specifications. In that case, under no circumstance can the blame be placed on maker of the product.
What I'm beginning to now sense are owner's frustrations over not being able to modify their ST's to 500 hp and still have them function properly. As an engineer, you should understand that when this is done, people are playing the game of "let's find the weakest link." And as expected, that weakest link has apparently been found.
Seriously, 1 of 41? That sampling is infinitesimally small. Recall stuff is one in many hundreds or thousands, perhaps tens of thousands. There wouldn't be a recall unless this was happening in number but it's not going to be represented simply by the number of us in this thread. Ford realizes this is an issue that will potentially cost then a lot of money.
I'm very serious. Regardless of sample size, as far as I can find it is the only numbered sample available. And the fact that this sample is taken from an ST specific forum adds extreme weight to that sample. Because as we all know, people rarely go to the net to report how few probelms they're experiencing with a certain product. But they do hit up the web like ravenous vultures when they encounter even the smallest issue.
That truth being said, if the problem was even close to being widespread the results of this poll should've been 15/41, or 25/41. But it's not ...
, none should break period.
, none should break period.
