Ford Club Sweden

Hi Friends,

Excuse me for typing english here.

I am a local Kuga user in Sweden and I got my new delivered Kuga titanium S in the beginning of 2012. After three months, early in the April, some components on the car had started to be rusty quite serious. But the dealer and the workshop are saying this is normal on all the cars. I am a tiro to the car, and just want to make sure if this is not a quality problem or is there any chance to argue with the dealer by using any type of guarantee to get rid of the ugly surface close to the braking disks?

It could be caused by the salt winter road in Sweden, but it still surprised me since its not so far from the delivery time. Thanks for the comments in advance.

sorry to tell you but you will see alot more of that stuff,the so called paint on the cars suspension components are joke and really poor more of a way to keep parts fresh at the factory then anything else,all cars that are on our roads look like that after a few winter months what brand the car may be,and there is no way you will get any bits of that fixed due to warranty as it's "normal" wear here,the brake calipers and rotors i bet you can get painted by someone if you ask arround but not to many will take on sandblasting and painting your suspension stuff, and you will have to pay for it your self


//Janne

Hi Janne, Thanks for your comment. What i concern more is regarding to the brake calipers than the suspension stuff. They looks ugly.

I propose to the dealer if their workshop can help me to paint the brake calipers, but they are saying all the cars are having the same situation so they wont take care of it, otherwise i have to pay by myself.

I have been checking around when i passed by the cars parked on the street, in general, this rusty brake caliper is a quite common issue on the years old cars. Its quite unusual to notice that on any type of the new delivered cars(10% maybe?).

What does it mean by you ''you can get painted by someone if you ask arround''? Did you mean i still have chance to argue with the dealer or i have to raise this issue up to some other organizations?

meanxpress skrev:sorry to tell you but you will see alot more of that stuff,the so called paint on the cars suspension components are joke and really poor more of a way to keep parts fresh at the factory then anything else,all cars that are on our roads look like that after a few winter months what brand the car may be,and there is no way you will get any bits of that fixed due to warranty as it's "normal" wear here,the brake calipers and rotors i bet you can get painted by someone if you ask arround but not to many will take on sandblasting and painting your suspension stuff, and you will have to pay for it your self


//Janne

hawker1861 skrev:Hi Janne, Thanks for your comment. What i concern more is regarding to the brake calipers than the suspension stuff. They looks ugly.

I propose to the dealer if their workshop can help me to paint the brake calipers, but they are saying all the cars are having the same situation so they wont take care of it, otherwise i have to pay by myself.

I have been checking around when i passed by the cars parked on the street, in general, this rusty brake caliper is a quite common issue on the years old cars. Its quite unusual to notice that on any type of the new delivered cars(10% maybe?).

What does it mean by you ''you can get painted by someone if you ask arround''? Did you mean i still have chance to argue with the dealer or i have to raise this issue up to some other organizations?

sorry for my poor grammar haha

i meant that you can probably get someone to paint them for you but you will have to pay for it, ford will never help you with that i can promise you, as long you can't prove or state that it's a safety hazard,but then you will get the same yellow cromated calipers again that get grey the first month they see water and salt then brown in no time,

the main part of car industries for mass cars is that it shall take no time and cost as little at the factory,then they don't give a shit if you get bankrupt repairing it after the warranty has gone,sad thruth but the result of the modern days with buy today use tomorrow throw next week,

as a funny side note i replaced a wheel bearing on a ford focus that only had lasted 1256mil today!! ford claiming RVC codes and allsorts of hassle with their crappy IDS that taking longer time than replacing the bearing it self hahaha so they do everything to get someone else to clean up their crappy stuff

//Janne

Seems to me like the situation is turning back to the industry´s "glory days" when a total "anything goes" attitude was the rule of the car makers and dealers . I have been told by old folks that in the post-war days of the fourties and early fifties when new cars were in short supply and consumer protective legislation hardly existed, surface rust could be found on some cars undercarriages just weeks after they had been taken in use. One really shouldn´t have to expect that today. Myself, i have otherwise experienced what seems to be a raise in mechanical malfunctions of the rear brakes (mainly but not only due to rust) on various car brands after lesser mileage or years than would be expectable, lending a hand in repairing some friends and colleagues cars. I´m beginning to wonder if the problem lies mainly with the actual car makers or the industrial providers of the brake systems. Meaning by that, myself being an old-car nut in private i run only cars of seventies vintage at the youngest, and with rust being a major issue with heavy salting on our winter roads, the brakes have seldom been a problem to me. Even that yellow factory anodized stuff still resides on the less road grime blastered areas of the calipers of my (now hibernating) 1974 vintage everyday runner, i think that says something about the decline in quality of car parts.

I would suggest that you look for some heat resistant brake caliper paint, the kind the tuner crowd uses, and go at it yourself with a wire brush to remove the rust and refinish the parts. Like Janne says, it´s not to be expected to get any correction from the dealership as long as it doesn´t affect the functions of the car.