spoon059 wrote:
Turtle n Peeps wrote:
I guess it would depend if that diesel engine cost that company a BILLION DOLLARS IN WARRANTEE WORK.
Well, I guess that is why the US government gave Ford $50 BILLION in bailout money, to cover all those warranty losses. Oh wait... Ford sold enough vehicles over that stretch to be able to afford to fix a few and still remain a viable company.
Which sounds better to you?
No excuses from me at all. I realize that they had a higher PERCENTAGE of failures with the 6.0 and 6.4. I have never once denied the fact that the 6.0 and the 6.4 are the least favorable diesel engines out there, in my opinion. The fact of the matter is that most people got them covered under warranty and kept on chugging.
How many people on this very forum (a very, very small sample size of the US truck market) have one of those "horrible engines" and yet keep on hauling down the road everyday? I see bunches of those era trucks in campgrounds all the time. I have spent the past 10 days on the road camping (its still snowing at home) and see lots of those bodystyle F250's and F350's with the PSD label on the door. Those poor suckers don't even know how miserable their engine is and they just keep on driving them. Poor suckers...
You keep finding a vey small sample from an even smaller sample of people that have come on line and complained (probably rightfully so) about their trucks. You haven't been able to state how many of these engines Ford produced (if I remember correctly in 2003 and 2004 alone they produced almost a million of the 6.0's), and then shown how many of those engines had catastrophic failures. 25 people crying on the internet sure looks like a huge number... but if you did the actual math you would find its only 25 people with actual experience and 100 people (much like you, I am sure) with ZERO experience with one of these trucks that continue to spread the hate.
That is your prerogative, obviously. I am just one of those people that likes to spread FACT, not a blowhard that throws around opinion disguised as truth...
I really wish we had a LIKE button!