I bought a '93 Mercury Topaz with 9K miles on it, a rental program car. 3 days later the driver side window quit. After years of doing for myself I got stupid and let Ford have it thinking the warranty covered all. Oh, it did all right...............over the course of the next 2 weeks, where they kept saying they were finding things wrong all over the car I got madder and madder. It started off with them 'finding a short under the seat' to create the window issue, wrong as the seat wiring never goes to windows. Then it went to dash removed and finally windshield to 'fix a leak that shorted wires at the PCM', again, nothing wrong with that and windows did not utilize it at all. Finally after phone calls that had different people responding without a clue as to what previous ones had said I took wife up to get the car. She says when she gets back, the car drives horribly, this on a car that was super silky smooth at 80 mph before they got it. I drove car and it is now shaking so hard at 50 mph you can hardly hold the wheel ???!!? Got out and looked at the wheels. They had evidently rebalanced the wheels and never even removed the original weights doing it, which were a different type due to the custom wheels on it. I angrily went around the car and yanked all new weights I saw (scarring the wheels up) and then drove it again. Now it's back to utterly perfectly smooth driving.???!!? So now I'm taking car apart mentally, the d-mn window STILL doesn't work either. Looked at the receipt for work and it claims all things plus removing all 4 doors for wind noise as complained about by customer. I had never made any such remarks. Same with the balancing thing, customer complained. Not me. The doors were never actually touched, the paint was still perfect on the hinges. Same with windshield and dash, never touched. I called them up and cussed them long enough I'm surprised nobody dropped the phone. Then I went to Ford corporate and figured out the dealers were milking Ford of warranty charges with any fairly new cars and corporate basically acted like they didn't even care. The receipt claimed $5200 worth of work done there, the car only sold for $9500. NEVER AGAIN.
Oh, the window? It turned out to just be the fuse, I regret thinking that before all the mess and not doing it myself. Stupid me. Car blew that one fuse and then never had any more trouble with windows.
King Charlie Hilliard Ford back in the mid '90s. One of the first buy ALL makes super car dealerships.
We used to have a family garage across the street from the local GM dealership, and commonly fixed the cars the GM guys couldn't, at various times the owner of that dealer tried to hire us there and Dad finally bought some land out in the country from the guy to retire on later. We used to stomp the living crap out of the 454 Camaros that came out of that dealership using our 390 inch AMX cars. We had one street AMX that would pump out 10.80s 1/4 mile @ 130 and still capped up at the headers. After a time of trying, the GM racing nuts then began to bring their engines to us to build, it was fatblock city there for a while. In the mid-late '70s.