And I thought I hated Fords

Mizz · January 23, 2012

I just thought I hated Fords until I had to DRIVE ONE EVERY DAY! ugghh looking for the radio fuse and the fuse box is in the most awkward spot there is no fuse diagram and there is a million other things I hate about this truck... Sorry just venting

Stevens03 · January 24, 2012

Don't feel bad. The company I work for keep buying fords and everyone thru the years have sucked. They dumped thousands aver thousands into them and then go buy another. I just don't understand it. Everytime I have to drive them, I feel like I'm in a death trap.

Mizz · January 24, 2012

Haha I think we work for the same company. The ONLY vehicle that has ever left me stranded on the side of the road was a ford and a newer one at that with only 123k miles

Stevens03 · January 24, 2012

Ours

We currently have (2) 98 F150's... both have under 90,000 miles and they are complete junk. I swear the wheels are square on both of them.

2010LTZ4x4 · January 24, 2012

Oh man! I can see this turning into the topic "Have you smoked a Hemi today" the way it ended before it was locked.

Anyway I've never been a fan of Fords period! Drove a F-250 4x4 3/4ton everyday at one of my jobs.

j-ten-ner · January 24, 2012

I have to drive a 2008 F350 power stroke every day for work. First I was impressed about the performance especially since he's got to tow a trailer his whole life.

I liked the design and what the truck is equiped with. 135.000km down the road I'm not that excited anymore.

"engine service soon" comes on all the time. Problem is the exhaust-cleaning-system. Once or twice a week the truck is smoking like crazy (cleaning the exhaust).

Engine oil level goes UP! Problem: leaking injector. Or better; the injector doesn't close and keeps "pumping" diesel into the cylinder (regarding to the mechanic). A co-worker blew up his engine because of this. The piston melted away.

On the same truck they had to change the turbo charger. To do so they have to take the cab off !?!

The only thing left I like about the truck is the transmission. The truck is towing trailers since he was new. No problems at all with the trans.

The funny thing is the manager likes the Silverados or Sierras (HD) way more. But the owner of the company is a hell of a Ford guy. Too bad.

so long

j-ten-ner

jvbronco · January 24, 2012

I have to drive a 2008 F350 power stroke every day for work. First I was impressed about the performance especially since he's got to tow a trailer his whole life.

I liked the design and what the truck is equiped with. 135.000km down the road I'm not that excited anymore.

"engine service soon" comes on all the time. Problem is the exhaust-cleaning-system. Once or twice a week the truck is smoking like crazy (cleaning the exhaust).

Engine oil level goes UP! Problem: leaking injector. Or better; the injector doesn't close and keeps "pumping" diesel into the cylinder (regarding to the mechanic). A co-worker blew up his engine because of this. The piston melted away.

On the same truck they had to change the turbo charger. To do so they have to take the cab off !?!

The only thing left I like about the truck is the transmission. The truck is towing trailers since he was new. No problems at all with the trans.

The funny thing is the manager likes the Silverados or Sierras (HD) way more. But the owner of the company is a hell of a Ford guy. Too bad.

so long

j-ten-ner

Those powerstrokes had gotten progressively worse with many issues like the one you mentioned. I believe that Ford ditched Navistar and worked with Powerstroke directly to build the new motor (2011 and up). It's supposed to be a hell of an engine and boasts top of class performance numbers 400 hp and 800 lb/ft torque ;). Lets see if it holds up... I sure hope it does because it's an impressive rig

KMGZ400 · January 24, 2012

i drive a 2010 E-350 for work.. aboslutley the most uncomfy vehicle in the world

dirtfan21 · January 24, 2012

I drive a '05 F150 ext cab 4x4 for work and it is a nightmare. Only 30 thousand miles and already the our city department has thrown thousands in parts in it. The truck takes FOREVER to heat up in the winter, it is a complete dog, and the 4x4 seems to never stay locked in when engaged. I live on construction sites and this thing couldn't crawl out of a kiddy pool and it has brand new Silent Armors on it.

I would take a V6 bare bones W/T GM truck over my 4.6L V8 (or whatever it is) bare bones F-150 anyday and twice on Sunday. This is not Fanboyism either, I truly hate that thing.

ChevyTech77 · January 24, 2012

On the same truck they had to change the turbo charger. To do so they have to take the cab off !?!

Actually, that is not all that uncommon of a thing, lifting the cabs off the frames for engine repair, these days. Most all of the work on a Duramax is MUCH easier done with the cab off and honestly, it only takes about 1-1/2 hours to get the cab off a Silverado and then working on the engine is 1000 times easier as well. It really isn't that big a deal.

mossbum · January 24, 2012

worked for a company for two years that used fords almost exclusively at the time. they probably had 30 or 40 F-250s, 350s, and 450s, all diesel because of the amount of towing and hauling we had to do. i never minded. they did the job just fine but they did ride like log wagons unloaded. im still in touch with a lot of my former co-workers and now all the sales guys get cc chevy 6.2s and a few of the field and research guys have duramaxes but most of them are still running fords.

BlackZ71Silverado · January 27, 2012

All of the Fords our Dept. had were garbage. The 2009 F-150's we had couldn't get out of their own way, terrible all around to drive with those little cabs. Then we had those garbage Hybrid Escapes, they spend more time being repaired than anything else, huge waste of money. Nothing but a headache. The Explorer we got lasted 2 months, went through 2 trannys and got rid of it, Expidition blew a motor the first year, transmission the second year. It still runs BUT I refuse to drive it, it's a death trap. The ONLY Fords that were worth anything that we had were the crown vic's, they took a beating.

The RAM trucks we have for plowing the lot are beasts, nothing stops them. We also have an old 2500HD gasses, 275,000miles and she's still running good.

Z45 · January 27, 2012

I might as well chime in. We had bunch of vehicles on our GPS Survey Teams. Most all were Dudge and Furds except for my suburban and a Chevy Mini-Van for the head honcho. In the last 5 yrs we had them, 3 Furds and 3 Dudges had to have new tranmissions. 2 of the Dudges were pulled from service at less than 70k miles for what they called "Frequent and Severe Maintainence Trends". My suburban never had one problem in the 100,000 miles I drove it in <4 yrs. I once asked the head of the A&E Section why they buy some vehicles and he said because we are gov't agency (DOT) we must take the low bidder no matter what and Furd and Dudge often beat GM on the fleet prices. Out dept bought and leased 1,000's of vehicles. What used to bug me is at times I would get comments from people/public about how good the Furd and Dudges must be because the state buys so many. If both vehicles were exactly the same but 1 cent different, they would be required to buy the one that was 1 cent less. Thats why we had 8 Furds and Dudges and only 2 GM's most of the time.

PS - The only way they let me have a K2500 sububan was that I was the senior tech and travelled all over the state on Recon and they let me choose a vehicle from the list of approved vehicles. It had to be justified by the change of command and took a 1 yr lead time before GM built it.

06_GMC · February 26, 2012

This is what I drive for work everyday and I can say I do like it, But it has 180K miles it's on it's second motor and has costs the company over 100K in maintenance and repairs since it was bought in 07.

nht mike · February 27, 2012

Hello! You all have heard "teach your children well" well last fall my son in law and I went truck shopping. He had always had GM trucks but he needed a 6 foot box and with the X plan the price for his loaded Lariat was something GM couldn't match. So as it ended up he bought a loaded Lariat crew 4 X 4 and I bought a 4 X 2 SLE NHT Sierra. As soon as my daughter got in the new Ford she got car sick! She has never done this before, but thinks it has something to do with the way the windows in the front doors drop down. If she drives it is somewhat better. I say it is just a Ford thing!

Mike