What a lemon.. 1996 Ford F150

inkjunkie said
one thing that i always find interesting when poeple start slamming a brand is they are ussually complainiing about parts. a broken water pump? how in the hell is that fords fault? especially when you couple it with the statement the heater core went also, that spells lack of coolant changes to me. warped rotors? were they factory ones or cheap ones from Autozone or somewhere? doubt they were "good" ones from Napa or wherever. Bad starters, injectors etc. truck is making no power after new injectors/computer, sounds like something else is wrong, another part that was probably made by the same company that makes aftermarket parts for mopars. i have had plenty of fiends that have had mopars with the same issues, often times it is just whoever "fixed" it did not diagnose it correctly. i have always slammed chebbies, and after driving my Duramax for 3 years or so I am truly impressed with it. sure i have had some issues, and none of them, except for the transfer case having a wear hole at 100k none of them were chebbies fault.

To put the blame on the person who works on the vehicle is wrong. The Water pump on my wife's truck that **** the bed was a brand new replacement FORD part purchased at the dealer. This truck (1st one) never had any heater core issues The heater core that went was a factory one(on the 2nd truck) and the problem with the core was that the 1st one that went was leaking at the hose barbs which were attached with rubber seals wrapped around a metal collar style fitting holding them to the core.(Bought at NAPA) The 2nd core I purchased had the hose barbs soldered to the core and this heater core has not had any issues.(bought at Autozone) The rotors were the factory rotors, on BOTH trucks. As I stated earlier, the issues with the brakes are a well documented issue on these trucks.The brakes on both of these trucks were always maintained at regular intervals and did not show any wear signs such as grooves or pitting/glazing. They were warped from heat. It was confirmed to me by a FORD mechanic that this is a common problem. The person who "fixed" the truck was not at fault when Factory parts were at fault, in fact the FORD mechanic who recently replaced the rotors on my wife's Bronco urged us to put slotted rotors on the truck to dissapate heat quicker so that this issue should not happen again.