Broken F150

[Diamondpilot]

Ok I had those two mixed up. I remember seeing pics of the red one but not this one. Your silver one looks exactly like my friends except his is white. You sure get a lot with the FX4 package I will say that. He has leather and everything just from ordering that one package.

Thats what my last 5 or so have been. To me the FX4 is the most bang for the buck.

Chris

 

[phiferpharm]

My daughter loves her Fusion and I was very surprised as she worked for Honda and drove two of them for several years. I saw someone write that the transmission in the Ford was an issue, but she hasn't had any issue with hers as far as I know.

On the other hand, the couple who live just down the road both have Ford trucks and both have had the sparkplugs blow out. They still insist the Ford is the only truck they would own, and the brand seems to be the main one you see around here with Dodge (my truck) a close second.

 

[Egon]

As you all know I'm partial to Ford's and here is why. I have had them all including 4 GM's, 1 Nissan, 1 Toyota, 1 Dodge, 1 BMW, 1 Lexus, and we'll over 15 Ford's now. My average trade in is 5 years old and 120,000 miles.

Yesterday I was coming home from work and the blower motor on my 2012 F150 Ecoboost would not work. It has 56,000 miles. I got home and did some research on the net and found out 99.9% of the time it's the control module. I checked the relay and fuse and both were fine.

After calling 3 dealers I found one in stock. All the other dealers could have it by noon the next day. I stopped on my way to work at a dealer about 5 miles out of my way and picked it up, cost $82.

It took all of 5 minutes to replace. Open the glove box, drop the door by pressing two tabs, and there it is. 2 8 mm screws held it in and a wiring harness. The old one was black pictured on the hood and the new one is white pictured inside the dash.

So yes, Ford's do break! But consider this. Since 1997 I have owned a 1997 F150, a 1999 F150, a 1999 F350, a 2001 F150, a 2003 Mercury Mountaineer, a 2004 F250, a 2005 Mercury Milan, a 2006 F350 (still have with 128,000 miles) a 2007 F150, this 2012 F150 (with 56,000 miles) , and a 2013 Edge (with 63,000 miles) and this is only the SECOND unscheduled repair made. The other being my 2006 F350 needing a dash cluster due to a faulty fuel gauge.

Chris

Golly, that's a lot of vehicles. I've only had one truck since 1997 and two cars since 1987!

 

[Whatswrong]

This thread has brought many thoughts regarding ford trucks .The company I work for has run predominantly Fords ,my favorite is getting old +/-400k Km a long box extenda cab (known as the long box) cant say for sure the year (maybe 94) all leather interior ,unbelievable power it will pull a loaded trailer much faster than the law allows and have lots of power to spare ,love this particular truck .

For Dodge they had one 15 years ago ,since 2000 they have had several GM and now are mostly Ford Super Duties .None have been particularly bad to the best of my knowledge .

What I have seen is that all these trucks are made more for show and tell ,when you start to work them hard as in towing heavy loads day in and day out you get trouble and should not be bought to do the work of a light duty highway tractor .It is quite a different story to haul a backhoe or a pallet of lumber to a construction site a couple times a week or a load of bull to a pasture or a race horse to a track .

I have seen a lot of these medium duty trucks hauling freight but not for a long time ,apart from the maintenance it is hard to put on a profitable load that is safe and legal. On that note I remember a truck coming in with a partial load for me to unload ,he had come out of Winnipeg and hit some ice on a curve not far from the city ,when he got stopped the neck on his trailer had broke at least one window and pushed in the corner of his cab the window was closed with plastic taped over the hole ,he still had to go 350 miles before heading home ,that would have been my last load with that rig but I wouldn't have started in the first place ,dad always said you shouldn't send a boy to do a man's job.

 

[Walkin Horse]

Anybody who hasn't seen this much brand loyalty has never seen NASCAR. I myself have only had one rust bucket blazer and a Pontiac in the 38 years I've been driving. At one time I owned 3 Ford trucks at once. Now the last one I have is an 06 6.0. It's had it's problems but I have abused it some hauling 12 or 13 horse at one time. I also have an 05 Mustang GT and a 04 Lincoln. So toot toot I'm a Ford man. And my Ford BH. I mite have bought the Workmaster just because too.

 

[MoKelly]

You should be happy that you have Ford stock.
I know a man that was a big wheel at a large local dealership. He had his whole retirement in GM stock before the crash. The government took his worthless stock from him, and now he sweeeps my floors.

In my mind it is different. He invested in GM and GM went bankrupt. That is a risk you take when you invest.

When I invest it never seemed possible the US Government would save your competitor with your money and then turn around and try to compete against you.

By the way, no one should ever ever never have their entire retirement invested in one stock or one company. Holy cow.

MoKelly

 

[WilliamBos]

Chris,

Would that control module going be the cause of a fan only working on high? On the way out? A friend has a 2010 F150, fan only works on high.

As you all know I'm partial to Ford's and here is why. I have had them all including 4 GM's, 1 Nissan, 1 Toyota, 1 Dodge, 1 BMW, 1 Lexus, and we'll over 15 Ford's now. My average trade in is 5 years old and 120,000 miles.

Yesterday I was coming home from work and the blower motor on my 2012 F150 Ecoboost would not work. It has 56,000 miles. I got home and did some research on the net and found out 99.9% of the time it's the control module. I checked the relay and fuse and both were fine.

After calling 3 dealers I found one in stock. All the other dealers could have it by noon the next day. I stopped on my way to work at a dealer about 5 miles out of my way and picked it up, cost $82.

It took all of 5 minutes to replace. Open the glove box, drop the door by pressing two tabs, and there it is. 2 8 mm screws held it in and a wiring harness. The old one was black pictured on the hood and the new one is white pictured inside the dash.

So yes, Ford's do break! But consider this. Since 1997 I have owned a 1997 F150, a 1999 F150, a 1999 F350, a 2001 F150, a 2003 Mercury Mountaineer, a 2004 F250, a 2005 Mercury Milan, a 2006 F350 (still have with 128,000 miles) a 2007 F150, this 2012 F150 (with 56,000 miles) , and a 2013 Edge (with 63,000 miles) and this is only the SECOND unscheduled repair made. The other being my 2006 F350 needing a dash cluster due to a faulty fuel gauge.

Chris

 

[Scott65]

Chris,

Would that control module going be the cause of a fan only working on high? On the way out? A friend has a 2010 F150, fan only works on high.

Nearly always when a blower only has high speed, it's the voltage regulator. Our module as ford is calling it. It gives resisted, lower voltages to the motor for lower speeds, and is "direct drive" for high speed. Meaning no resistance needed, it's pushing full 12 volts to the blower.

 

[jones6780]

I like Ford, grew up with Fords and now have a 04 F150 Supercrew 4X4 with 5.4 and 110,000 miles. Just changed the plugs @ 100K and had trouble but had the correct tools to get 'er done. I did have to replace the windshield 'cause of a rock. Of course I did have a 74 Toyota Landcruiser that I loved, put a 302 Ford with FMX transmission in it.

 

[HHR]

Nearly always when a blower only has high speed, it's the voltage regulator. Our module as ford is calling it. It gives resisted, lower voltages to the motor for lower speeds, and is "direct drive" for high speed. Meaning no resistance needed, it's pushing full 12 volts to the blower.

I've always called it the "blower motor resistor" they are usually around $20 at the parts store and are sometimes in an inconvenient spot. The blower motor in my 04 F150 started making odd noises at around 30K miles and at that time Ford wanted $150 for the motor. A friend had to have the blower motor changed in his Toyota FJ Cruiser and was told the job would have cost $3K if it had not been under warranty due to the sheer amount of interior disassembly required.