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Within two weeks of buying that Taurus, the battery went dead on my wife. Luckily, for me, it was in her parents driveway. I was just going to jump it, until I read the owner's manual. I wasn't about to risk blowing up the computer doing that as it said to turn on every friggin' thing electrical before hooking up the jumper cables. So I had it flat bedded to the dealer. They said they'd get to it the next day as service was closed by the time it got there. Next day, we hadn't heard from them and it was approaching 5PM. I called to ask what was up. All the techs that do battery work have gone home so I'll have to wait.
OK, I'll be right down for my FREE LOANER CAR that you owe me because it's a new car.
By the time I got there they some how managed to find a tech that could put another, way too small battery in the car, I was good to go.
That car never ran right until I put a new, big-as-can-fit battery in it a couple years later.
Bean counters really didn't do dealers any favors with those cars, which made the Consumer's Report 'Do NOT buy' recommendation list for that year.
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Scott
'78 SC mit Sportomatic - Sold
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