Thank you, Pasha. I'd like to think we are modest folks - not necessarily smarter or more clever than a typical Ford dealership but the reality is that we have serviced more that 130 unique VIN GTs. Few, if any, Ford dealerships have had that same privilege, so we simply have a whole lot more experience. One case in point is Pasha's car where the dealership's first inclination was to replace the fuel pump modules and then the fuel pumps. That would have been a horribly expensive and indirect route to fix the single bad fuel pump.
I fielded a call last week from a private car dealership (a very famous one at that) and they had taken a GT with intermittent gauge failures (aka low battery voltage) to a Ford dealership for diagnosis. With no history or experience - or reading of this forum, the dealership made a reasonable assumption that the Gauge Control Module was faulty and quoted ~$9,000 for the module and $1500 for labor to replace it. I told the gentleman to replace his battery and I guaranteed he would be good to go.
A couple of weeks ago, I took a call from a Ford dealership who wanted to know how often the shocks go bad. He had a customer's GT in the shop and the owner wanted all 4 shocks replaced because the ride was absolutely terrible! I told him that sure, shocks will occasionally go bad - typically not all 4 at once (lol), but they go bad by letting go of their seals and there is almost always evidence of oil on the shock bodies. Then I asked him a simple question....... wait for it......."Is the car on original tires?" Of course the answer was yes, of course, the car only has 2,000 miles on it and the tread is almost perfect. I guaranteed him that replacing the tires would solve the customer's problem and I proceeded to give him the details on the Bridgestones as a recommended alternative over the Goodyears.
I could go on and on.... but you can't make this stuff up.
