Ford quality chief retires as CEO tries to boost reliability, reduce recalls
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Cue the Ford bashing.
Unfortunately, much of it is well deserved.
Unfortunately, much of it is well deserved.
Can they hire someone from Toyota? 
Reliability should get better as they transition to EV. Less moving parts.
Sure, let him retire with a golden parachute instead of firing him for dereliction of duty. But unfortunately, he's not the only party to blame for Ford's current woes. I'd say Ford needs a good house cleaning.
Mechanically yes, but I'm sure it will introduce a whole new world of programming glitches.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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The real bashing should be this.... If you were a near total failure at your job, would you expect or get a golden parachute retirement or the door againts your back side as security escorts you off the property? Oh and its not just FORD. Quality concerns seem to be the new norm for many
companies these days.
Of course! There are always competing interests in large organizations which are outside the control of a dept head.
True but that's easier and cheaper to fix.
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Probably a good move by Ford. Four recalls so far on my 2021 F150, one still has no fix available lol. Small stuff but inconvenient. Still love the truck though.
A friend’s husband used to work at the Ford plant in Louisville and now works for Toyota in Georgetown. He said the difference between the two is that if you stop the line to fix a problem at Toyota you get a thank you but if you stop the line at Ford you get a pink slip. That was 15 years ago so things may be better now, but it doesn’t sound like it.Can they hire someone from Toyota?
Farley is trying to move Ford in the right direction, out of traditional car company to the future business.
I would be curious as to what the reliability issues are.
Ford has always been better managed finacially than, say GM or Chrysler.
Even better than the mighty Toyota with their mountain of long term debt.
I would be curious as to what the reliability issues are.
Ford has always been better managed finacially than, say GM or Chrysler.
Even better than the mighty Toyota with their mountain of long term debt.
Ironically they have at times been at the top of the game quality wise. Ford has had many years producing vehicles that get 300k miles without much if any drama.
There's an old cliche about how so and so company has "x years of experience" where they add all the employees' experience together , or somehow insinuate their time in business is equal to their experience, and somehow think that makes sense. In reality, it seems knowledge leaves the company with its employees.
Ups and downs. That's business. The next 20 years will be challenging as the workforce changes. From line workers to engineers to management.
I am not sure if companies are ready. Short term thinking is a recipe for tough times. Farley is trying to emerge. Old skool ain't gonna cut it.
32 years with the company? There's your problem.
Full disclosure, I think everyone here knows what I do for a living. That being said the quality has gone downhill like crazy. Some of the repairs we are having to do on vehicles due to either not being built correctly, or just poor parts is embarrassing. Plus the parts backorder situation is obscene. Numerous parts on backorder that have no business ever being more than overnight availability.
Autoline Daily had a program this week that recognized a number of high profile Ford execs who are going to be retiring and or changing roles within the company. The story reiterated that Farley is trying to flatten the management of the organization so that whole organization can be run more efficiently. I have to give him credit for having a vision and knowing what he has to do with the legacy business to adapt it to the technology transitions needed.
This brings to mind the famous expression, "a leopard can't change its spots." How many times in the past has Ford announced a similar initiative to improve parts and assembly quality, only to revert to mediocrity in both respects a short time later? When buying a product from this company, one has to gamble that the timing is fortuitous and coincidental with the ephemeral result of such a quality campaign. In my world, gambling is fine on an inexpensive product, but not on a vehicle costing several tens of thousands of dollars (the exception being if the use case is weekend-only/fun car).
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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I was lucky. The last FORDs I owned were both pretty much trouble free....... No they were not the Model T!
