Therefore you're saying that Ford need not have gone to the trouble? That rather than their technical people recognizing that there's some sort of problem that needs to be addressed, then they're just doing it for.... well... no reason at all? That common sense is the solution to the issue they're going to all that time, trouble and expense in remedying?
What constitutes "looking under the bonnet occasionally"? If you check your coolant every single time you get in the car, then you're a better man than I.
Would it also then be 'common sense' to, say, check it several times during a journey too, just in case you can catch the level having dropped at that crucial point, that very point in time, when it was about to cause major damage?
I'm guessing there's something under the bonnet that could give rise to a leak in more unexpected circumstances than would be considered normal or routine hence the action they're taking. Clearly I don't know what, but equally clearly we must imagine they know a bit more about these things than we do.
I would imagine there would be a rumpus if you found out that there was an issue with your car that they knew about but chose to ignore and your engine was damaged. Be honest and say whether you'd be annoyed, livid even, or would you accept it with good grace and a philisophical shrug of the shoulders?
Do you think occasionally means every single time?
I think there must be more info in this recall than noted in the original OP, because on the face of it, the above reads like "low coolant leads to engine overheating resulting in cylinder head damage, coolant sensor needs to be installed". I would have thought any modern car these days containing an ecoboost engine would have a coolant sensor fitted at the time of the cars design. Seems a strange afterthought to me, and maybe Ford should have gone to the trouble in the first place if that is the only reason for this recall.
Sensors can go wrong too - some earlier VAG cars were well known for it. It still pays to look under the bonnet as part of a maintenance check. Most of the time eyes are more reliable.
Funny how older cars have got along just fine without one.
On the subject of relying on sensors, if you see the 'low oil pressure' light come on, it's usually too late.
As for 'being annoyed, livid, apoplectic', I don't buy new cars, partly for this reason. By the time I buy a car, the recalls have usually been done, or any glaring weaknesses have already been addressed. So yes, if something goes wrong with one of my cars, I'll shrug my shoulders, accept it with good grace and buy another. I'll leave the 'gnashing of teeth' to the new car buyers, if they've been unlucky enough to put their trust in an untrustworthy manufacturer.
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