Joe Smith

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since January 28, 2007

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January 28, 2007, on Ford Story:
I purchased a 1994 Ford Probe GT from a service manager of a local ford dealer in early 2001 with 32k miles on the odometer. I went through the car as he suggested at around 35k miles by replacing the usual goodies such as plug wires fluids and doing a tune up. The Probe ran without a single issue for close to 60k miles and was extremely fun to drive all the while. The vehicle blew a plastic radiator in July 2005 which was 121 bucks and half an hour to slide in. The battery also went gimp at around 90k. Just as I was beginning to believe all the negativity posted here was due to negligence or just plain bad luck, the odometer rolled past 100k and the problems have begun. . . I scheduled the car into an indy shop to replace the timing belt and noted the ire as I was getting estimates from all of the mechanics I contacted about Ford Probes being a nightmare. Since I have excellant karma this lifetime, I noticed the H2O pump shaft leaking the very morning before the car was scheduled in fo...