No, Ford’s don’t break by jumping it or running them into walls. You can roll a Ford down a hill and nothing will break, but drive it down the street and it will catch fire and blow spark plugs through the hood and have every other stupid ass thing break on them for no reason.
first of all spark plugs dont fly out through the hood, i think you meant to say pistons, but i have only seen japanese cars do that. in this video we seen a ford truck jump and it didnt break, so i do not like your sarcasm. look up ranger danger. people doing 30+ foot long jumps with them no problem. have you ever seen bullrun? first season a f.150 drove through a 5ft high brick wall and only busted the headlights. no damage to hood or fenders. i am curious too to know what you drive?
No, they just dent the hood when they fly out of all the 4 threads holding them in. Google “F-150 blown spark plug”, plenty of info including a class action lawsuit againt Ford.
Also look up “F-150 wet engine” and see how much a Motorcraft coil costs.
Yes, we saw a Ford truck jump and not break, that was my point. You can run a Ford truck into a building and it won’t break, drive it down the road and something random will break.
the 5.4 had spark plug problems but it wasnt them flying out of the hood. they would snap when people tried to remove them. you can get a special tool to get the job done. so i have heard lots people have left the spark plugs in and have over 150, 000 miles on them without changing them.
yea. i just had to take in my cousins explorer. got a recall in the mail. apparently anytime between 1995 and now, it could have caught fire because of one simple wire and burnt down the house when it was parked in the garage…and killed someone, even when it was turned off. not only but 8 other ford models in the past 15 years had the same recall. kind of scary.
that wasn’t Ford’s fault. the company that made the wire sent ford a smaller wire than they ordered. physically it was the same size but the copper inside was thinner so it overheated.
It’s still Ford’s responsibility. If they use it in their vehicles and it carries “Ford Motor Company” on it or that little oval then as far as I’m concerned it’s their fault. Let’s not forget the ignition switch fires on numerous ford models in the late 80’s/early 90’s, guess that wasn’t their fault either…and the cruise control switch on the 08-09 crown victorias…yea not their fault either I’d imagine. They only manufacture the vehicle and are in charge of quality control AND safety.
every company has their recalls and issues (none as bad as toyota right now). you’re right, they are in charge of what happens, but in most cases with ford it’s been partly the fault of the manufacturer of whatever was wrong, lie the wires. though ford should have checked that to begin with, the other company shouldn’t have screwed up to begin with.
well even with the ignition switches overheating, it wasn’t the part, it was Ford’s great Idea to relay all electronics through the ignition switch instead of a run signal to the PCM for example. Ford’s design is what killed them and caued the fires. But after researching the recall I encountered. it had nothing to do with the size of thewire at all (I figured it didn’t). it was the sensor on the end of the wire that leaked and it overheated, buring up the wire and the fluid caught on fire.
….All they did was put a fuseable link wire on it that would pop before the wire got too hot which would keep the fluid from catching fire. This is coming from the description from the NTHSA. I looked up the number on the paper I got in the mail from Ford.
i did some googleing from what you gave me, and you’re absolutely right. the cruise control really was a defect in the wire, the reason our ’03 e-350 was recalled. the ignition switch is exactly as you stated, so thanks for clarifying that.
i’ll still drive ford though, especially now. today, ford really is the only way to go.
i went to look at the ’09 f-150, and i had my doubts about a few things, but every one of those doubts were laid to rest when i saw it. we have an ’07 and ’08 f-150, and both are great trucks, workhorses, and are comfortable on top of it. i’m just loving ford more than ever recently because they have REALLY stepped up their game on just about everything, and it’s really hard to deny that. when was their last recall, anyway?
the big one that my cousins explorer was included in was opened in september and the paper came in the mail in november. the latest recall i found was for the roush mustang having the front caliper fail due to improper torque specs during manufacturing or something. but it was very small due to the limited amount of roush’s. their last HUGE one was the one i mentioned about the brake wire. the cruise switch was right before that one.
so they’re not doing bad at all then i would assume. well at least they never (to my knowledge) covered up the problems like toyota is right now. i mean wow, it took somebody to get killed for them to fix it. and now recalls are popping up left and right for toyota.
yeah. every company has their flaws and recalls. everything mechanical will fail and have defects because nothing is perfect in design. toyota could have handled it much better than they did. they were more concerned about getting the recall repair parts to the factories first than to the dealers to fix all the cars that were already on the streets with the recall.
I have a 1991 ford crown victoria LTD LX and i have to admit that they really need to fix how they wire things cause it always seems to be electrical with ford like the window actuators or the door locks or the power mirrors that go first in fords however i still love fords
yeah not really what do you drive a chevy?
No, Ford’s don’t break by jumping it or running them into walls. You can roll a Ford down a hill and nothing will break, but drive it down the street and it will catch fire and blow spark plugs through the hood and have every other stupid ass thing break on them for no reason.
id do that in a work truck too… just not my own shit!
frank must drive a chevy, yeah that sounds like a chevy
trucks fine. just the shit in the back was rattling around
first of all spark plugs dont fly out through the hood, i think you meant to say pistons, but i have only seen japanese cars do that. in this video we seen a ford truck jump and it didnt break, so i do not like your sarcasm. look up ranger danger. people doing 30+ foot long jumps with them no problem. have you ever seen bullrun? first season a f.150 drove through a 5ft high brick wall and only busted the headlights. no damage to hood or fenders. i am curious too to know what you drive?
No, they just dent the hood when they fly out of all the 4 threads holding them in. Google “F-150 blown spark plug”, plenty of info including a class action lawsuit againt Ford.
Also look up “F-150 wet engine” and see how much a Motorcraft coil costs.
Yes, we saw a Ford truck jump and not break, that was my point. You can run a Ford truck into a building and it won’t break, drive it down the road and something random will break.
What do I drive? 2000 F-150 🙂
the 5.4 had spark plug problems but it wasnt them flying out of the hood. they would snap when people tried to remove them. you can get a special tool to get the job done. so i have heard lots people have left the spark plugs in and have over 150, 000 miles on them without changing them.
yea. i just had to take in my cousins explorer. got a recall in the mail. apparently anytime between 1995 and now, it could have caught fire because of one simple wire and burnt down the house when it was parked in the garage…and killed someone, even when it was turned off. not only but 8 other ford models in the past 15 years had the same recall. kind of scary.
Diesels dont have spark plugs….
no they have glow plugs
ouch
that wasn’t Ford’s fault. the company that made the wire sent ford a smaller wire than they ordered. physically it was the same size but the copper inside was thinner so it overheated.
It’s still Ford’s responsibility. If they use it in their vehicles and it carries “Ford Motor Company” on it or that little oval then as far as I’m concerned it’s their fault. Let’s not forget the ignition switch fires on numerous ford models in the late 80’s/early 90’s, guess that wasn’t their fault either…and the cruise control switch on the 08-09 crown victorias…yea not their fault either I’d imagine. They only manufacture the vehicle and are in charge of quality control AND safety.
every company has their recalls and issues (none as bad as toyota right now). you’re right, they are in charge of what happens, but in most cases with ford it’s been partly the fault of the manufacturer of whatever was wrong, lie the wires. though ford should have checked that to begin with, the other company shouldn’t have screwed up to begin with.
well even with the ignition switches overheating, it wasn’t the part, it was Ford’s great Idea to relay all electronics through the ignition switch instead of a run signal to the PCM for example. Ford’s design is what killed them and caued the fires. But after researching the recall I encountered. it had nothing to do with the size of thewire at all (I figured it didn’t). it was the sensor on the end of the wire that leaked and it overheated, buring up the wire and the fluid caught on fire.
….All they did was put a fuseable link wire on it that would pop before the wire got too hot which would keep the fluid from catching fire. This is coming from the description from the NTHSA. I looked up the number on the paper I got in the mail from Ford.
i did some googleing from what you gave me, and you’re absolutely right. the cruise control really was a defect in the wire, the reason our ’03 e-350 was recalled. the ignition switch is exactly as you stated, so thanks for clarifying that.
i’ll still drive ford though, especially now. today, ford really is the only way to go.
i will say, I am very impressed with the 2010 Fusion and not to mention the 2010 Taurus, I really like the new Taurus.
i went to look at the ’09 f-150, and i had my doubts about a few things, but every one of those doubts were laid to rest when i saw it. we have an ’07 and ’08 f-150, and both are great trucks, workhorses, and are comfortable on top of it. i’m just loving ford more than ever recently because they have REALLY stepped up their game on just about everything, and it’s really hard to deny that. when was their last recall, anyway?
the big one that my cousins explorer was included in was opened in september and the paper came in the mail in november. the latest recall i found was for the roush mustang having the front caliper fail due to improper torque specs during manufacturing or something. but it was very small due to the limited amount of roush’s. their last HUGE one was the one i mentioned about the brake wire. the cruise switch was right before that one.
so they’re not doing bad at all then i would assume. well at least they never (to my knowledge) covered up the problems like toyota is right now. i mean wow, it took somebody to get killed for them to fix it. and now recalls are popping up left and right for toyota.
yeah. every company has their flaws and recalls. everything mechanical will fail and have defects because nothing is perfect in design. toyota could have handled it much better than they did. they were more concerned about getting the recall repair parts to the factories first than to the dealers to fix all the cars that were already on the streets with the recall.
Ford rules!
I have a 1991 ford crown victoria LTD LX and i have to admit that they really need to fix how they wire things cause it always seems to be electrical with ford like the window actuators or the door locks or the power mirrors that go first in fords however i still love fords