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Aluminum can be PDR repaired if it’s not too heavy of damage. A good PDR tech will get it so you won’t be able to see it was ever damaged. But it has to be a good tech who takes some pride in what he does.

Could be just from shipping from where the frame was built to the assembly plant, or handling in the assembly plant. Frames aren’t handled with kid gloves, they’re big, heavy, and awkward to handle.

That’s normal. Snow, mud, and even heavy rain block the sensors. They are sonar and anything on the face of the sensors reflects the sound waves back, just like an obstacle when you are parking.

The dealer can look up build date. Compare that to date you took delivery.

I was told by a Ford chemical engineer that specialized in lubricants that if you want to drive your car until you’re tired of it run Mobile 1. I have run it since and have had no engine problems. That includes in 2 Eco Boost engines. That and clean air filters, and I wouldn’t run any kind of...

Dealers much prefer finance customers. The make as much on financing as they do on the car in many cases.

Yep, Toyota has 1000,000+ Tundras that had machining debris left in the engine and they are spinning bearings and taking out the whole bottom end. I think it was ‘22 and ‘23 model years. Any manufacturer that builds as many cars as Ford or GM or Toyota etc is going to have some issues. Except...

They take it seriously, but when you build thousands of vehicles a day that all have hundreds of parts on them that can fail and leave the vehicle inoperable there is only so much they can do. And remember, they dealership is not Ford, they are a franchised wholesale customer of Ford. Ford...

Oh yeah, I did that for 35 years while I was at Ford. Haven’t missed it for a second since I retired.

I get your frustration, but every dealer gets multiple tow-ins a day. Not just Ford dealers, every dealer. If everyone knew everything that is going on in their car as it drives down the road and all if the individual sensors, wires, switches, motors etc it takes to keep them running, they...

So true, I’m the shop foreman at a large Ford dealership and GOOD technicians are few and far between. Good lube techs are even hard to find. But at least the vehicles are getting exponentially more complex and more difficult to work on. I’m not sure about the lower stress though, when you...

Aftermarket installers always blame the manufacturer. Really. It didn’t do it before the modifications but does it after and it’s Ford’s poor design?????

Aftermarket installers always blame the manufacturer. Really. It didn’t do it before the modifications but does it after and it’s Ford’s poor design?????

If it’s been started several times to move it around and then been sitting for days, yes that would be normal.

What is the DTC it’s setting?

They may have something disconnected to do the repairs. If it is run with something disconnected, you get the CEL.

Poor service from your Ford dealer, not from Ford. There is a difference.

You really want to ask, “Did you buy that thing that way or did you f%#k it up yourself?”.

I apologize, I thought I was replying to the first message in this thread. I definitely agree that dealer service experiences can be negative, it varies from dealer to dealer and, often, between different advisors at the same dealer.

Ford can choose to cover a dealer denied repair under warranty if they see fit to do so. They steer clear of getting in the middle of controversy over modified vehicles. Warranty only covers defects in materials and workmanship on Ford’s part, if someone else has worked on it and put somebody...