Ford F*ck up, What the hell?

Back in the summer we got a recall notice on our party van.  It was due to some issue with the cruise control that could be a potential fire hazard.  Ford did not have the parts to fix the problem but to ensure the owners safety, their quick fix was to disconnect the cruise control.  The plan was to have me come back in a month or two when they got the parts to complete the repair.  Well the cruise was disconnected in mid-September.

I let 3 months pass by before calling back in December asking “what the hell?”  The Ford dealer said that the parts were still on back order. Um ok, fine.  So for some reason the other day it popped into my head that the van recall STILL had not been completed, 7 months after the initial notice.  I called back the dealer today and again ask “what the hell?” with a little more irritation in my voice.  Once again I am told the parts are STILL on back order and no ETA was posted.  The guy said that the recall actually affected TONS of Ford vehicles, not just the vans.  He apologized but said there was nothing he could do to speed things up.  It seems pretty irresponsible to me for Ford to issue a recall for an issue they weren’t prepared to fix.

Speaking of irresponsible, today Ali called for the final inspection on our fence to close out our permit.  I told her to ask if the open permits that we discovered a month ago had been closed yet.  Nope, neither of their status had changed.  This pissed me off. I called both the pool contractor and the pool cage contractor a month ago and they both assured me that the issue would be taken care of.  To me, a month is enough time to get something done.  So I had to call them both back and once again say “what the hell?”  The pool contractor said he was on vacation for the past week but has been waiting for word back from the person that handles the permits.  He said he would follow up again and get back to me, yea ok.  The pool cage guy again acted like he didn’t forget or disregard my request.  He said he had to come out to our place to take measurements of the cage to submit with the permit.  He said that he would be out in our area this week to take these measurements.  I think he is full of shit and if I didn’t call he would have just continued to do nothing.  I’ll give them both another month, if it isn’t done by then I am filing complaints with the permitting office against both of them.