PeteInFlorida

Hello All, I just bought my 14 mustang gt 2.5 weeks ago, and today it went to the Ford dealer for warranty work on its air-conditioning. The problem is, at 82 degrees, the car is barely comfortable inside. The air blows cool, but not cold. The technician thinks it may be the expansion valve, but he isn't sure. He had to order the part, so they are keeping my new car overnight. What a pain!
"Ford Quality Is Job #1!", yeah right. This disturbs me a great deal.
I once bought a new 1983 Mustang GT, and had no problem with that car ever, except for some reason the rear tires wore out quickly, hmmmnnn.
I hope this is not a bad omen.
Any thoughts about the late model mustangs having a/c problems?
I have searched in this forum, and have only found a few problems with older 'stangs.

99GTvert

Maybe it'd a friday car (assembled on a friday).

Did they explain why they need to keep the car overnight? Did they give a loaner? Hopefully that willbe the last issue though.

PeteInFlorida

Well, I got my Mustang back today at lunch....and the a/c works nicely, at least so far. Yes, they did give me a loaner car. It was a Ford Fussion, nice car. They were very nice to me at the stealership.

jz78817

No automaker has a 0% defect rate. If you expect such, not even saintly Honda can give that to you.

My 2010 Mustang needed no unscheduled trips to the dealer. My 2012 has needed one; the ESC warning came on and it needed a new steering rack (steering angle sensor went bad.). Does this mean my 2012 is an incredible piece of junk? No, all it means is that modern cars are terrifyingly complicated machines and if you expect absolute perfection pretty much everyone is going to disappoint you.

Lethaldosage423

Every now and then you'll get a bad part. It's rare but it happens.

BrazenStang

Don't sweat the small stuff. It sounds like a small issue that hopefully Ford will figure out quickly for you and get it back on the road. It is a comfort feature, put the windows down until they fix it. Its not like a #8 cylinder issue or anything significant like that.

BTW, What's it like to have temperatures high enough to use the AC in March? There's a good number of us that have no clue what that's like. lol.

PeteInFlorida

Actually, it is quite nice to have warm temperatures in March. I just hope the A/C keeps up when summer time rolls around.
By the way, I bought nothing but Toyotas since 1995, and have never had to bring it back to the dealership for warranty work. I have never paid as much for a car as I have for this Mustang GT either.

70monte

When I first bought my 14 GT back last August, the AC felt like it wasn't working that well at first but it seemed to get better the more I drove it. I took the car on vacation to Galveston TX in early September when the temps where still in the upper 80's, low 90's and the AC seemed to work fine. I will see how it feels once it gets hot again.

Wayne

jester0618

A/C?? What the heck is that? I've had to use my seat heater every day for the last 3 months.

PeteInFlorida

Your post makes me feel better. Since I have gotten my car back for the A/C repair, in my opinion, the A/C has been working well...I'm quite satisfied now. I even gave my FORD dealership a very favorable response on the email questionnaire. They were very nice to me, and treated me well.