I'm Erik New to this site. I just purchased a 2003 ford expedition ssv 5.4 V8 FX4 XLT 4X4. Does anyone know what kind of service roster the ssv police/ambulance vehicles have ??? Thanks

 

Depends on the dept. that owned it, what it was used for and the type of jurisdiction they were in. Lots of variables. Do you know anything about where it came from?

 

Yes it was a Toronto or Hamilton EMS. vehicle. Thanks

 

How many miles? Being a city EMS vehicle and 8 years old it probably has lots of hours on it, generally the rule is something like 3x the mileage to account for the run time. Often times you can contact the municipal garage and ask for the specific vehicle's records, and at the very least what their schedule is. Your best thing to do it change all the fluids and start from scratch.

 

its got 200k it has a hr meter but they disconected it.

Thanks for the Idea of looking for the garage that a great idea !!

 

Yikes is all I can say! That is a ton of mileage on the clock. I'd bet it was repowered at some point.

 

Yea lots for sure but I don't know what u mean by repowered ?? New engine ?? Thanks.

 

Yes, new engine or a rebuild. That is a ton of miles for a service vehicle. It is from Canada, could you be looking at 200k kilometers? that would be 124k miles which is a lot more in line with when gov't agencies take vehicles out of service.

 

Nope its got 312 000kms. Was taken out of service with 280.

 

Well best bet is still to start with a fresh change on all the fluids and go from there.

 

Allready done. A whille back need a oil change soon that's about it. So what's this issue I hear about the spark plugs u know anything about that ??? Was it onbly the oringinal plugs that brok ??? Think the EMS. Replaced them allready ??

 

The service interval on the plugs is 100k. I would expect they did it once, but probably not twice. Plug breakage is not uncommon, but also not that big a deal. There are lots of threads here about it, try the search function.

 

Cool thanks also was wondering does your expedition have steel bars welded in the door aswel or is that a ssv extra?? and do you have your expedition chipped ? know anyone that does ? thanks alwaysfords41

 

The SSV package is nothing more than a bunch of creature comfort and appearance deletes and an alternator upgrade, there are no body mods. There are chipped Expy's, again search the forums.

 

Cool thanks for the info Cheers.