Stock is not good enough. I feel the truck has done its job for me. To reduce the chance of failure, change your engine oil and coolant at Ford's recommended intervals. This truck is so embarrasing for us and the Ford company. Wobble kicks in after sharp turns and wheel will not return to center and when forced back to center it will wander and hunt for center. Custom 11ft tool box, aluminum wheels,fuel cell goose-neck hitch.
I bought it at 160k miles and have almost 300k on it now. So 1 vehicle and my husband gone for work for nearly 18 hours a day, 5 days a week, leaves me and the kids with nothing to drive if we needed to get somewhere. After doing some learning about 6. Now i lest my truck at truck stop and came back about 10. I never pull anything ever and I am always light footed.
The truck is very fast and believe it or not unusally good fuel mileage if you keep your foot out. I am very happy to hear that you have done things correctly and are having a good time with your 6. Since the engine has blown up and has been sitting for 4 years, just sitting there not running. Please send your lawyers address. Your experiences are shared by less then a 10% of our readers, so I still encourage you to take a few precautions with your truck.
Attorneys at Strom invite Ford owners to contact them for a free legal consultation. I learned the hard and expensive way, found good people to work on my trucks and help me to learn. I feel like a moron for selling the truck so cheap but was just so tired of dumping dollar after dollar into the truck. I purchased my 2004 6. I am not sure about my 2007 350 super duty truck had oil cooler egr valve done to it seem to run good but after reading all the tube people are having I wish now I never got the truck. Ford will not take this vehicle in on trade in because they know it has no value.
Drove it to Seattle in tow gear on any hill and got lucky on the down hills. We intend to get rid of it as soon as its running, then get a Dodge, what we should have done in the beginning. In the shop every month while under warranty. It was coming from the top of the reservoir bottle. I have been happy with mine until now.
This truck has been a dream to own. I live in missouri, can someone please help? We live out in the boonies and cannot afford another vehicle. Those are still a little out of my price range right now though. Sorry I made some errors in my statement above, it has less than 29,000 miles. When I asked ford what they were going to do about it, they said nothing, it been too long! Bullet Proof Diesel water pump.
Ford should be ashamed of themselves. Within a week another injector went up, same scenerio, towed, rent a car, etc. The second time still under warranty injectors and injector tubes this time to the tune of 5200. I say we all tow or 6. He told me to wait a couple of years until they got it all straightened out.
It had needed a re-flash once for rough idle under warranty and when I traded it in the degas bottle was starting to whistle on deceleration. Heck runs good for 100 miles anyway. Once my truck hit 125,000, it went downhill. I had to have the vehicle towed in to them from my home. Now they tell us 19,000 for new engine and fuel system. My mechanic suggested the egr delete and new oil cooler and it sounds like I should do that.