Interesting comment from an online board
"Any Ford Truck with a 5.4L Engine The 5.4L 3-valve engines used in Ford Trucks from 2004 to 2010 develop camshaft phaser issues, especially when engines exceed the 100,000 mile mark. The first sig...
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fj12ryder wrote:
I dunno about "fan-boy hyperbole" when Ford shops actually have special tools for removing the broken plugs and can quote up to several hundred dollars for a spark plug change. You may have had excellent luck with yours but a whole lot of people weren't so fortunate. Did you keep them long enough to change the plugs?
Sparkplugs are a once in an ownership expense for the vast majority of owners, many don't keep them long enough to do even one change. A friend put 170K on his before he changed the plugs, wasn't cheap at 400 bucks, but he said that wasn't even 1 payment on a new one. Truck had 250K on it when his son totalled it by flooding it out while off roading drunk in a field.
All that being said if I was shopping for a truck, I'd pick a 09+ F-150, after Ford solved the sparkplug issue and introduced the far superior 6 speed transmission to replace the 4 speed unit.
