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I am hoping to get a job with NASA!!! At the NASA Glenn Research Center. It looks promising! I am keeping my fingers crossed!

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Ted
Garfield Hts.,OH
'95 SE,Champagne,Duratec,MTX,fogs w/parks,Ray's THF,rear dome,lighted moonroof switch(thanx Dom!),tranny cocktail,minor stereo mods.

Hey Sandman333, thanks for the heads up on broken springs. I am going to check mine.

You're welcome.

Sandman , the change in my attitude (as you say) is because I was reminded of what a very wise old man once told me :

If you're standing on a street corner arguing with a fool , and an innocent bystander walks up and watches the two of you arguing ... How will he know who's the fool ??

Well , I'm standing on the corner ... and people are watching me argue ...

In closing , I apologise to anyone that has been witness to me totally wasting CEG bandwidth arguing with Sandman . This has been the first & last time I will do so , especially when there is obviously no way to get my point through .

By the way , I NEVER said there should NOT be a recall

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Allen

Well, now I will call you a liar. Your statement of "don't even think of condemning", and the last statement of your last post, makes you a liar. Your first statement certainly indicates your opinion that there should not be a recall. Now you are contradicting that. The really difficult thing about lying is that after a while, you forget the lies you told and they start to catch up to you (someday, when you grow up, you will learn this). Hence, we have your current predicament.

It seems the only fool you are arguing with is yourself.

Listen to me loud & clear when I tell you this , because it will be the last time I say anything to you !!
When I said it was the finest suspension , I was speaking of PERFORMANCE , not in the tensile strength of the springs & their possibility of breakage and wheather or not there should be a recall . If you weren't so all-fired up to try to make a point of acting up , you'd have realised that . So I think you need to get your head out & figure stuff out for yourself instead of me having to spell it out for you . So once again , I am not arguing with myself ... and I'll spell this out for you so you know for sure (since that's the way you like it) ... I am not the fool in question !!! Although with each response I read of yours I feel I'm being "dumbed down" !
I'm sure the folks of Rantoul are glad to have such a studious person such as yourself on duty , God bless 'em .
Now go and find another way to take things out of their intended context & switch stuff around to suit your needs . Typical ...

I apologise once again to all other CEGers reading this , I hope you're getting a kick out of all of this drama !

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Allen

Sandman , I can't wait to hear what you come up with next . Lay it on me man ... I'm all ears !

Guys

This BS arguing is not advancing the issue. Please calm it down and get back to the real issue.....broken springs !

All I have to do to prove my statement from my last post is to copy/paste your statements here:

"Don't even think to condemn all of the '95 SE's for having bad springs or that the springs are junk right from the get-go . "

and.....

"By the way , I NEVER said there should NOT be a recall"

Now, which story are you going with today? Those two statements are mutually exclusive of each other! A recall is performed because there was a faulty/defective part from the get-go, to borrow your terminology. It's true that you never said there should not be a recall, word-for-word. However, I'm not going to get into a semantics argument with you.

MarkO- Sorry for all this. I am just trying to get something done for those of us who are concerned for our safety. Allen, or whoever he is, seems to think we should all trust our lives to his experience with 2 cars, which he cannot even confirm that he inspected in such a way as to detect the problem I am concerned with. So far in this thread, we have a "possible" 2 cars without broken springs, and an overwhelming majority with broken springs. I tried to be nice in the beginning, but it seems that Allen had other ideas. He will simply not listen to logic.

Aftermarket OEM type springs for Contour? Queries to a couple of auto part suppliers have indicated that they are available from Ford only.
Performance springs I do not know about and I don't see them being used on a regular street Contour.

Yeah, I think I am going to have to go with some type of aftermarket performance spring for the front. Curious, the rear didn't seem to sit low before. It actually looked normal with the broken springs, especially compared to the other Contours/Mystiques in my area. (makes me wonder how many of them are broken, too!) Now, after the replacement of the rear springs, there is a noticeable difference in ride height. It seems that the front looks low now. Makes me wonder if the fronts are not broken too. Of course, Hill Ford will not remove the spring/strut and inspect. They seem to think they can find the breaks with the springs installed on the car. I showed them the proof in the rear springs where it was possible for them to be broken and not be able to find the break while installed, but they would not listen. I absolutely hate it when the service writer treats you like you don't know the first thing about your car. How hard would it be to have the mechanic put the car up on a lift and SHOW him what you are talking about? I understand the liability of having a customer in the service area, but I still don't think my request is all that unreasonable.

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95 Contour SE automatic, 37,000 miles