Here is about 850 more people that might want in on a class action lawsuit, if that's what it takes.
http://www.allworldauto.com/comments/lincoln_mark_viii_comments_and_complaints_121-1253-1.html
I'm sure there are many more. See, it took burning people alive and burning down a house or two and then the cruise control was recalled. I know the headlights aren't going to do that type of damage but charging the person that now owns the car nearly $1000 or w/e it is just isn't right. Why didn't they make us buy our own cruise control fixes if we didn't want to burn?
Tommy, I didn't know you had already took it this far before. It just popped in my head yesterday because I looked over and saw the letter from Ford to bring my car back in so that they could reactivate my cruise control for me. I'm not having either one done because I have clear housings with aftermarket HID's and I could care less about cruise control. I know it's deactivated now and that works for me.
KK, we are the customers (consumers) because we now own the car. We purchased it, regardless if we bought it new from them or not. If that wasn't the case, I never would have been tracked down and sent a letter about my cruise control and I promise, they hunted me down. If for some reason they have another lawsuit come at them, they might just be sending out more letters to give away housings and not make people buy them. I would gladly make a trip to the junk yard and get me a set of yellow housings and slap some 9005's in them and head right on down to the dealership. Come back home, reinstall what I have with the HID's and that should last the remainder of my cars life.
I just feel like the housing should last the life of the car. Does anyone have yellowing, fading tail lights? People have bought the new housings from Ford and then they find out a couple of years later that the insides are burning on them too. Luckily when I bought my car, the new housings had just been put in right before and I never really drove it at night and it has been inside from the elements. Since March or so, I have had low heat HID's so mine was eliminated before it started. Not only do the halogen bulbs ruin the housing but the weather also gets them from the outside. Maybe it is all a losing battle, idk but I feel like it's wrong to make the customer spend that much money on something they have no control over.
Yes, they offer a retrofit kit to take you back to halogens but what if you waited on that particular year car just to have the HID's? Some people probably paid the price on the sticker for HID's on 95's and 96's just to find out later that if they want new ones, they won't be like what you had but they still suck.
Y'all can let this thread die because I didn't want to get anyone upset at anyone. I didn't know that they had been hit with phone calls by many people and or emails in the past already. Tommy, you explained it by the numbers of production. I had no clue Ford done them like that on the bulbs. So who makes housings and bulbs for Ford now?
They will soon turn yellow too and also go through the bulb issue. Now I know if I ever buy a car from Ford, Lincoln Mercury that I need to go ahead and do something about my headlights right then to protect them from the sun and rain and make sure they have the proper bulbs or put my own after market HID kit in because they will not have headlights for it later on.
Yes, I have noticed on many other cars, not just Ford, but Dodge and Chevrolet, that they also have a lot of models with faded yellow headlight housings. Maybe the windshields should be made the same way too. Just make us blind where we can't drive the car anymore after so long.
ripped camel, I really hope you take this somewhere. Apparently it hasn't went to the right person yet and you just might find that right person. When you do, I'm sure you'll have plenty of people to back you up because there are still a lot of Marks out on the road.
