On the show this week we celebrate an incredible feat of Aussie engineering. The Ford F150 is driven off the line in Detroit as a LHD, but once it hits the Australian market, it is a perfectly converted RHD. Australia is the only place in the world that does this, and our guest this week is one of the key people who makes it happen. Tom Dohrmann is the Assistant Chief Programme Engineer for the F150 conversion. He tells us how the conversion is done and what you need to look out for if an F150 comes into your repair shop.
In this week’s episode you will learn:
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How the F150 is as big as the iphone
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How the conversion is done
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How Ford Australia has driven the project
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What repairers need to look out for in the F150
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The impact of an aluminium chassis
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How the manual was adapted
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How to source parts
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What the F150 is like to drive
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Why car parking spaces need to catch up
You can listen to this week's episode here