There is no such thing as Phase 1 or Phase 2.
Not one single car left the factory with stitched seat bases, they were all dealer replacements if you shouted enough through Ford Customer services.
As the run came to it's end and ford was losing more and more money on them, the reat seat brace covers were left out, dashboard light dimmers left out, amongst many other things!
Purest bollocks - there were production changes in the 2 years or so they were being built with most of the obvious 'customer concern' fixes introduced simultaneously giving a very clear before & after break; the different seats were fitted from the factory on newer cars and the seat base a retrofit on the older ones in a few cases, and there wasn't 'more and more money being lost' causing production changes - different things were done for different reasons but the pennies saved in swapping a few parts over (like dimmer/non-dimmer controls) would have been eaten just buy the production change documentation.
It's only 7 or 8 years since the cars were being built & bought new and all these stories about things like the seats have sprung up already...
