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On Dec 27, 7:06*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote: had my brand new F-150 Lariat Special Edition towed back from Greenville RI to the dealer in Webster, MA because... The brakes failed - as in F A I L E D - causing me to avoid a massive collision by jumping a curb and heading into the pucker brush. Then, to add insult to injury, when I restarted the engine after it stalled out, a horrendous noise and oil smoke started to pour out from under the hood. *Brand new engine to boot. In a nut shell, this truck is a piece of s##t. *This is the sixth major failure in 20 thousand miles. No, I'm not buying a Toyota so don't even suggest it. I am looking at GMC though. I load cars for a living on trucks, and we've had 1 Expedition almost go off over the front due to brake failure. Something is going wrong with the Ford brakes. I, personally have had the brakes feel REAL spongy in the Fords, and almost lost one myself. We have to make sure the dam things work before we can load em' now.Fords DO have the best frames...IMO GMCs have the flimsiest frames I've ever seen. Stronach makes em right here in the town Im in, and they (Stronach) also own the Temp Service that staffs the plant. Talk about the rich "double-dipping". I have distorted the tie-down holes on several units just from cranking the chain tight. Wanna know whats good and bad...ask me. We dont haul them all (the real high end stuff) but handle all the domestics.You should see the ****ty undercoating jobs on the YJ Jeeps. I'd never buy one. |
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