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l15ter

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26th Jul 10 at 15:40

Well yesterday my girlfriend sliced her finger to the bone while she getting the sat nav from under front passengers seat on an 09 Ford Focus. Afterward a trip to a&e, I looked under the seat and theres a bit of metal just acting a knife. It looks like a design fault, so where does she stand?

Thanks, Lister

VrsTurbo

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26th Jul 10 at 15:41

No win no fee type companies would take this up.

BarnshaW

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26th Jul 10 at 15:42

get pictures of the fault, pictures of the injury and any hospital reports you have.

send this in to Ford Head Office, no harm in also speaking to one of these injury lawyers, they just won my brother near on 3.5k for a neck accident in a crash.

Ian

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26th Jul 10 at 15:44

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/ercSectorsDetails?itemId=1076942759&type=REGULATIONSUM

Ben G

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26th Jul 10 at 15:44

sounds like a case of phoning ford head office/customer services up.

could get a good few bob from this if it's an actual design fault.

iirc my focus sub frames were sharp aswell,as most cars seem to be, but yours could be worse.

l15ter

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27th Jul 10 at 09:09

Thanks for all the replies

Ricky352

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27th Jul 10 at 09:19

As said make sure you get it well documented

Nasher

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27th Jul 10 at 09:23

i see a recall happening

fazza

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27th Jul 10 at 09:26

tell her to man up imo

only a cut finger...

dhdev

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27th Jul 10 at 10:42

How's about getting in touch with Ford to make them aware of the potential hazard and refraining from shoving your hand under the seat. Wouldn't have had this problem if you'd been using a map

I do hope that people have jumped to the wrong conclusion and you're not actually planning on suing anybody

[Edited on 27-07-2010 by dhdev]

Adam_B

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27th Jul 10 at 10:43

quote:
Originally posted by Nasher
i see a recall happening

No chance from Ford

mooney

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27th Jul 10 at 11:15

got any pics of the bare metal?
i've been making seats for vauxhalls the last 8 years and nearly all the metal underneath gets covered, might not be a design fault maybe human error

Crana

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27th Jul 10 at 11:51

quote:
Originally posted by mooney
got any pics of the bare metal?
i've been making seats for vauxhalls the last 8 years and nearly all the metal underneath gets covered, might not be a design fault maybe human error

The car in question is a ford

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27th Jul 10 at 11:53

You won't get anywhere trying to sue them. How are you going to prove the seat cut her hand?

BarnshaW

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27th Jul 10 at 11:55

any decent company would follow this up, product liability is a MASSIVE problem for manufacturer's and i know from experience in the company i work from we have to bend over backwards for customers with a potential product injury or property damage from an item/product.

ssj_kakarot

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27th Jul 10 at 12:10

wont get anywhere ? of course he will, if you ring a claims company they will take it up straight away as long as the seat has not been tampered with and the metal left exposed through human error.

you would be surprised how fast companies pay out with stuff like this, got to realize a few grand is not to much to a huge company and much less hassel than bad publicity and stories in the news paper ect.

mooney

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27th Jul 10 at 12:25

quote:
Originally posted by Crana

quote:
Originally posted by mooney
got any pics of the bare metal?
i've been making seats for vauxhalls the last 8 years and nearly all the metal underneath gets covered, might not be a design fault maybe human error

The car in question is a ford

i know its a ford but a seat is a seat, the company i work for also supplies ford with seats, and jaguar, and there is similarities underneath the trim

Steve

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27th Jul 10 at 12:37

ford will try and get out of it in the first instance i guarantee

they will say some bullshit like we are sorry to hear abou tthe recent accident with your partner, however in this instance we cannot help because we are cúnts

Twiggy

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27th Jul 10 at 12:42

You sharpend the ofending item didn't you.

antnee

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27th Jul 10 at 13:37

quote:
Originally posted by Steve
ford will try and get out of it in the first instance i guarantee

they will say some bullshit like we are sorry to hear abou tthe recent accident with your partner, however in this instance we cannot help because we are cúnts

barter

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27th Jul 10 at 20:11

this thread is pointless without pics !!!!

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