Are you happy with your '24 GT? Would you buy it again? Any issues?

[Wiley Marmot]

Yea, I'm happy with mine............................here comes the "but". But, I bought it off the lot due to the estimated 6-8 month build time; which would have pushed my order into the '25 model year and what I figured (rightly so as it turned out) would be a price increase over the '24 I wanted to order.
My dealer/sales rep did some quick searching of other dealer inventories to see if they could find an option match sitting at another dealer lot to no avail.............and there was that Rapid Red (the color I wanted to order) one sitting outside....................

Which resulted in:

The color I wanted!

The nicest/best car I've ever owned!

Brembos/red calipers --best performing and looking brakes/calipers I've ever owned! Great pads Ford! LOVE the dust! I can't ing believe Ford can't put a great set of street pads on their cars (my Focus ST and RS had the same issue) that don't dust so bad! Say, .....like the after market ceramic pads I put on both Focus'! Something else to fix down the road.

Skinny 20 x 9; 10 into 20 spoke wheels (great combo with the mondo dusting pads!) and 265 all season tires? WTF! Fixed that at additional expense with some black Voxx 5 spokers. Going to use this combo (for at least the first winter) as my winter set. Also at additional expense: SVE black r355 19 x 11 and 19 x 10 wheels arriving soon with 305 and 285 rubber for the "other months".

The A10 instead of the 6 spd--(I do like the A10)!

Leather seats instead of the Recaros--been riding in Recaros for the last 11 years. The leather seats are OK but pretty MEH to me. May end up doing some sort of Recaro project "some day".

Premium dash--I like it better than I thought I would, but given the choice; I'd swap it out in a minute for the dash from my Focus RS or one of the GT 350s I test drove.

No PP, which I wanted to order. I did get the K member and a LS 3.55 diff (because of the A10 tranny), but I got stuck with the laughable wedge spoiler (aka a "plastic board") and non existent non PP splitter. Both of which have been fixed/replaced at additional expense with after market pieces.

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[Farmer Fran]

Brembos/red calipers --best performing and looking brakes/calipers I've ever owned! Great pads Ford! LOVE the dust! I can't ing believe Ford can't put a great set of street pads on their cars (my Focus ST and RS had the same issue) that don't dust so bad! Say, .....like the after market ceramic pads I put on both Focus'! Something else to fix down the road.

Every Brembo car I have owned has the super dust. Those are fantastic pads. As Randy Probst said, if you change them out to "no dust" plan ahead. They will not stop like these will.

2020 Camaro SS
2021 Challenger Scat Pack Wideody
2023 ZL1
2024 Mustang GT

all tons of dust, but they freakin stop!

 

[Wiley Marmot]

Fair enough--can't argue with the points you make.

Let me be clear; I have no complaint about Ford pad performance or feel at the brake pedal---that goes for the ST, RS, and GT. The excessive dust sucks though, and if Ford can offer brake system options; pad options shouldn't be too much trouble.

I live on a dead end street; a 1/4 mile from the stop sign to my north. If I clean/ed and shine/d the wheels on any of the three Fords; none of them could/can make it to the stop sign without a layer of brake dust on the wheels. THAT is BS!

On the ST; I swapped out those nasty *** OEMs for Centric ceramics. Same feel at the pedal--and no; I didn't do instrumented testing for distance. Nevertheless; they stopped great at 1/10th the dust. If they didn't stop quite as good as OEM,; it was a darn good trade off in my book! Eventually I upgraded the brakes via a Power Stop kit; rotors, calipers (rebuilt powder coated red OEM calipers) and kevlar/carbon pads. Stopped great; low dust!

The RS came with a Brembo brake system. As the third owner; the rotors and pads were all at minimum spec, so I replaced them with Stop Tech rotors and Hawk HPS ceramic pads. Stopped great and again, about 1/10th the dust!

No disrespect to Randy, but he ain't drivin' his cars like I do mine. So, he needs MAXIMUM pads to the exclusion of other considerations. The next time I show Randy how it's done , track my GT, or join join YOUR "Stop 'n Rob" crew as the Getaway Driver ; I'll put the OEM pads back on! Hate to kill any of us before we spend the loot!

I neglected to mention my GT's Active Exhaust in my first post. BEST darn OEM exhaust I've ever owned. Great sound, love the "adjustability"!

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