I guess I will be driving a new Ford tomorrow
My 2016 F250 decided to blow up yesterday so I guess I will see how good Fords warranty coverage is. It has less than 15,000 miles on it. was taking a couple things to my work and had just pulled in t...
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Lessmore wrote:All I could afford wrote:
My 2013 6.8 L V10 at work swallowed a valve when it was 2 years old. Was just a few hundred miles over warrantee and Ford refused any goodwill offer. We installed a new ford crate motor, and not even 2 years later that one also swallowed a valve.
Closer inspection revealed that one of the rocker arms had side to side play, and caused it to damage the valve retaining mechanism. Third motor is so far so good. We run our work trucks hard at my job, but use Motorcraft semi synthetic and Motorcraft filters once a month.
On a sidenote, our 2009 Ram 6.7 Cummins just put a rod through the block toward the back on the driver side, but it ran 490,000 miles in those 8 years!
Does your company still buy Ford trucks after this pattern valve issue and Ford's response to provide some financial support ? Not trying to start a range war, just curious as we have considered buying a new Ford vehicle.
Kind of an unusual pattern for the normally bulletproof V10. Surely this is just a freak occurance (twice) or something wrong with the maintenance program?
Thanks!
Jeremiah
