Question About Ford 6.0 Diesel
I just bought a 2003 ford F350 6.0 Turbo Diesel with 119,000 miles. It is pristine, but now I read that they are absolute junk, and I am uncertain if I should keep it, and try to use it as a tow ve...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:Having grown up in dealerships I am smart enough to know it is not up to FMC to be sure all the tech's are well trained. It is or was up to the dealers as they are not owned by Ford. As I said, in the early years of the 6.0 there were very few tech's trained on this all new engine. If you think any auto manufacturer trains their tech's for free you are not as smart as you think. I have been to several of the schools and they are not cheap for the dealers to send their tech's too. Please oh wise one, show us all a car company that has all their techs trained on new products before they hit their show rooms!Bird Freak wrote:
The only thing I would question on these figures would be how much of it was paid out for repairs or should I say replaced parts by tech's that had no idea what they were doing?
As I understand it even Ford said they had a serious problem with untrained techs in the early years of the 6.0. There was a lot of money wasted here.
Are you saying that Ford had techs that didn't know what they were doing? Who's fault is that? That does not bode well for FMC.
Was this problem with techs not knowing what they were doing ever fixed? If so, when?
The 6.0 is a model T engine compared to the 6.7. :E
