thanks alot ford!!!!!

A good friend of mine is the service manager at a big Honda dealership, he laughs about the fact that people think Honda's are so much better than other cars, he explained it to me once. He told me Honda takes care of issues right now, and quietly, they don't wait for it to make head lines or become lawsuits, he told me there are all kinds of "quite' settlements that Honda has, but people don't hear about them. They are instructed to take care of the people who ask, but don't go around adverting it. If there is an issue, they fix it, and do it right.The second biggest thing about Honda's owners is most of them aren't car people, they look at their car as transportation, if the owners manual says it need this at this many miles, they do it, no questions. My friend has worked at several other car manufacture dealerships before working at a Honda one, he told me compared to the dealerships, you would be surprised how many people take their Honda to the dealer for an oil change, or a brake job. They let the dealership take car of it all, because they don't want problems. If the owners manual says you need to do this at this many miles, they take it to the dealer and have it done, if they find something else on the car that needs to be taken care of, they have it done without question. Don't take me wrong, Honda dose make a nice car(they make a horrible outboard though), but give a lot of credit to the fact that most modern vehicles, if maintained properly, will give you miles of service
 
i find this all hard to beleive so if a dealer breaks a spark plug on your car and its still under waranty do you have to pay extra ----have they changed the desighn--i would of thought ford would of done some testing on these plugs before they used them on there engines----has anyone made a spark plug to fix the issue---sounds crazy from a place like USA you would think it would of been in the courts and fixxed fast
 
I was told they make a one piece plug now...... I will call bull$hit on that one. The motorcraft ones I bought a week ago are 3 piece plugs. They'd get carboned and bound up in the base, or they pull the threads out. Hey Aussie Look up 3valve ford,or 5.4 plug removle on YouTube.
 
I have a 2008 F250 with about 57k miles. It has a 60k mile warranty.

The truck is running great.

Would it behoove me to take it to the dealer to change the plugs while still under warranty? I am guess I would need to pay for a "tune-up", but if they need to repair any broken plugs, it would be on them?

It doesn't sound like trying to change them myself is something I want to attempt.

rkc
 
I have the 5.4 in my FX4 expedition. I had the 100k service done and was dreading the plugs popping. My local guy, not a ford dealer, got them all out in one piece. His guidance is that every 40k they should be replaced as cheap insurance. She's got 120k on the clock right now, still running great.

Every car company has had their issues. I have a GMC Acadia as my daily driver, that's been in the shop more times than I can count and I only have 27k on it. The most recent was it wouldn't start due to carbon build up in the throttle body. Luckily GMC has a TSB out for it, known issue that ISN'T covered under warranty. Granted it was only 200 bucks but still, the thing is only 2 years old.
 
smokeonthewater said:
if it's under warranty it's free.... it's AFTER the warranty that we have to pay
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Plugs are NOT covered under warranty. They are considered a normal wear and tear item, but, if they break the plug while removing it, they need to make it good, on their dime.


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If you do replace your plugs in the 3 valve motors then put the nickel anti sieze on the thread and lower piece below the thread. That's what I was told to do.
 
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