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24-12-2013, 05:30 PM
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Ford are no worse and no better than the rest of them.
I bought my 5.4l F250 from a Ford dealer new in 2002, cost me $65000+ and until this day never treated it badly. 25000 kms or two years into owning her a spark plug blew out.....wtf? As you do when you have a problem you turn to Dr Google.........the page lit up with thousands of other having the same problem, there is (was) a class action going on in California about the very same issue. Ford knew about this issue with the 5.4l motors way back in 1996 but failed to act on it, they were prolly hoping the issue would just go away. Turned out to a manufacturing fault with the heads and the spark plug going tight on two turns but never actually seating on the washer. Ford flew out from the US two new improved replacement heads and fitted them under warranty.
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24-12-2013, 06:02 PM
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had an extended electrode nose which carbons up and jambs up breaking the plugs when you try to remove them. |
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24-12-2013, 07:00 PM
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Ive seen the youtube vids with all the hassle of removing the plugs where you need specialized tools.........totally unacceptable..... 
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24-12-2013, 09:17 PM
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it only affects 3V engines from 2002 to 2008, after that the heads were changed to fix the problem. The early plugs were two piece that broke, later ones are stronger one piece units, tools are easy enough to source. There are still americans sooking on about this **** years after the fixes have been out there.....Bloody unbelievable. Last edited by AU1XLS; 24-12-2013 at 09:31 PM. |
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24-12-2013, 07:04 PM
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Have'nt you ever heard the story about the old F 150's breaking steering box shafts......Steering TOTALLY lost while driving lol! Well that's what I have been told....
My uncle has a new F250 like yours......Within a month he got a front flat tyre.....Went to tyre shop and they couldn't supply new tyre because the size was U.S only size lol......Had to wait for Ford dealer to get one in! |
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24-12-2013, 07:08 PM
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Bull ****. 
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24-12-2013, 07:48 PM
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my uncle had an F250 on LPG, it caught fire at a set of lights, then blew apart and scared everyone and killed some puppies
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24-12-2013, 08:53 PM
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Just put the spark plug back in??
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26-12-2013, 06:09 AM
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Interestingly, at least in Vegas and southern Nevada as we drove around, we didn't see that many Ford F-trucks. Traffic and parking lots were chockers with Dodge Rams and Chev trucks (no surprise given the cheap prices and great deals we heard on the radio for, especially, Dodge), but honestly you see more F250's and the like driving around traffic here in Australia than we saw over there.
However, it seemed like every service truck at Mccarren airport was a Ford F-truck of various sizes, and municipal government vehicles (power, water, etc) seemed to be all F trucks as well, but private ones were very thin on the ground. I also mentioned to a dealer when we went for a quick squiz at a big car yard that his dirt cheap work trucks, when converted and sold in Australia, sold for up near a hundred grand (or more), and he nearly fell over laughing after I convinced him I wasn't pulling his leg... 
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Ford are no worse and no better than the rest of them.
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