Thoroughly ****** off with this POS. 200 miles truck gets in an exlosion in drive up window of our town pharmacy. In shop 5 weeks. 1800 miles later, 350 miles from home truck #6 injectors go bad still in the shop. Paid a lot of money for POS and this whole situation sucks.

 

new member.... 1st post... no profile...no pics... Troll???? I love my truck, and so do a ton of others. Whats ur real truck, A D@dg#

 

Sometimes new 6.0L owners are too angry to mess with formalities. I know.

 

sorry if you are just ******, But the only thing that my 6.0 blows. Is the doors off the cars next to me.

 

I have had a 03 6.0L F-250 since Feb 03. It has been a great vehicle with one exception. It runs like a POS after it warms up. It bucks, misses, gags and coughs. It is virtually undriveable above 80 degrees outside. Ford admits, " we are unable to fix it". It is being repurchased by Ford. I pick up the check tomorrow.
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

 

Hmmm... got my truck Feb 4th and engine and tranny have had zero problems. Steering box was replaced and now the pinion seal on the rear diff is leaking. Other then that, it's running as advertised. Sorry to hear about your trouble.

 

i have had some recall problems w/ my truck and a rear engine seal leaking but other then that this truck is bad ***, 4 wheel drive is awsome and it rides smooth, still better then a chevy and dodge,

 

I know how you feel (broken down more than a few times) but I don't believe the problems are with the engines. I believe the stem from the way Ford goes about fixing them. A few examples
Injector goes bad replace (it) knowing the rest are subect to same (or wouldn't have came out with new C95) engine fills with oil and runs till it stops drain it and put it back on road. It even says in fords web sight that newer fuels don't have the lube quaility of older fuels thats why they use tungsten in the injectors which move a LOT less than cranks cams pistons. In following these web sights on the new 6.0's once the problems start
and get major the only ones that are fixed 100 %
are the ones that get new engines, or new trucks.
The major complaints have to do with Fords handling of the custumer. I have had over 7 contacts with CRC They Have Been having the Area Rep get back to me for over 2 months (never happened) $40,000 problems don't go away like a $10.00 rebate on oil that never comes!

 

What's with the fixation on Dodge owners?

WE'RE not your problem - FOMOCO is - and those of you who would bury your heads in the sand and pretend there IS no problem!

Some of you guys aren't gonna start that GM site BS, and start demanding VIN numbers, birth certificates and social security numbers every time some Ford owner reports his unhappiness over a problem, are you?

You can BET *I* would be ranting loud and clear too, if my truck was doing some of the things guys are reporting here - would you really rather they keep quiet about failures and fixes, as to not disturb your tranquility? Most come here, and to sites like this to LEARN - and how can that happen if complaints are censored and forbidden?

One of the best "tools" you Ford owners HAVE to use against Ford is the power of NUMBERS and free flow of INFORMATION - from places just like THIS - if all you allow here is peace and harmony, how serious do you think Ford will get in responding to your problems?

Think about it!

 

Hi Gary
No my truck is a 2003 6.0 F250 my ninth new Ford since 1990. Sorry my first post didn't meet your standards. the point I was trying to make is that ford is not taking the bull by the horns. most of the reports people post of major issues are not resolved until a new engine or they get rid of it. I love the truck had a 2000 7.3 before
it was totaled I wouldn't have brought a first year production truck but the need was there. I would love the truck fixxed but ford has done nothing to that end. If you had over 100,000 miles so the repair was on you do you think your dealer would recomend replacing 1 injector at a time if they started going bad one after another in hopes that it would stop. When the tech that working on your truck tells you he and the service Mgr have been asking for a new engine but ford won't. When truck was 1 week old I went to bike week Fla. it ran great and told everyone so, now its in shop after all the breakdowns with no end in sght. How should I feel?

 

"Sorry my first post didn't meet your standards."



UMMMmmm - I think you musta misread something - *I* agree with you completely - you have EVERY right to feel strongly as you do, and to expect proper repairs and support HERE from other Ford owners!

MY comments were directed at the SECOND post in this thread...

 

Hello ipkyss,

Probably a lot of satisfied diesel pickup owners use their trucks in the same situation you do as a runabout instead as a hard working unit that a diesel engine is supposed to be capable of preforming. Last Friday I had the opportunity to observe a new Ford with a diesel engine and a new Dodge diesel working their way northward on the four lane highway between Calgary, Alberta and Edmonton, Alberta. The highway had several steep short descents and inclines plus a few longer slight grades. The 350 Ford dually was pulling a tandem trailer loaded with a large skid steer tractor and there was a very large equipment box at the front of the trailer. The trailer was connected to the Ford with a pintle hook and the truck box was piled with other equipment and supplies for some job. I were traveling in an empty GMC 1500 pickup gas job traveling around 120 kmph or about 72 mph uphill and downhill. My wife was driving and did not want to get a speeding ticket so she kept her speed fairly constant. The Ford was traveling fast, anywhere from 50 mph up hill to 85 mph downhill. We noticed that the Ford wanted to travel on level road about 75 mph but after getting ahead of us for about a mile then a hill would slow him down and we would catch up. On one longer incline we got ahead of him in the moderate traffic flow and he was behind us wanting to run over us on the next decline. My wife was driving and she squeezed into the right lane between a couple of vehicles heading downhill and the Ford went by in the left lane gaining speed so as to not have to crawl up the up-coming incline. After the climb the 6.0 PSD then increased its speed to around 72 mph on the level road and stayed behine us so we would go ahead and tail gate any slower vehicles motivating them to move into the right lane near or in the valleys to clear a downhill run for the PSD to speed up. The 6.0 litre Power Stroke had problems getting up the final third of the rises at speeds more than 50 mph once his rpm dropped off. The Ford turned off the highway about half the way to Edmonton.

Shortly before the Ford turned off the highway a Dodge diesel dually that was traveling northward pulling a long tandem trailer loaded with a very huge loader tractor equiped with a back-hoe was finally overtaken by us when we traveled at 80 mph for a short time. The Ford had British Columia license plates and he would have liked to move well above the speed limit all the time. Both the Ford and Dodge were loaded heavy by the way their one ton suspension was lowered by the weight. The Dodge stayed in the right lane and we and the Ford went by and slowed down to about 72 mph in the right lane. After the Ford turned off the Dodge slowly passed our empty gas job. The Dodge was looking to get slightly more speed to tackle the next valley. The Ford difinitely had the capability of moving at a higher velocity on the flat road while the Dodge proved it had more staying power near the crest of the hills or on long slight grades. The Dodge powered downhill at about 85 mph but it got to the top at near 65 mph and had no problem accelerating up to 72 mph more quickly than the Ford had. Unfortunately, 75 mph seemed to be the maximum ground speed that the Dodge could do on the flat while the Ford would even get up to over 80 mph to pass. The Cummins definitely had more stump pulling power and the Ford had more top end way out there where police radar can shut you down. The power curves recorded on a graph for the Cummins high output and the Ford 6.0 Power Stroke tell the story before I observed it in the field.

 

... or else that's all the faster the Dodge driver WANTED or needed to go to maintain speed up the next grade - one of the first rules of claiming "wins" in racing, is to be sure that your selected opponent IS racing - or even aware of your existance!

I have no doubt lot's of "losers" of races didn't even know they were IN a race...

When towing our trailer, I most always maintain about 62 mph - the speed limit for my setup here in California is 55 mph, and 62 or so is all the "grace" I figure I can count on from the Hiway Patrol. I often get passed by hotshots out on the flats towing similar rigs, only to reel them in up ahead when we get to the grades, where they have to slow down - just as you mention above. Ocassionally, I'll see the tell-tale puff of black smoke as the other guy hits the go-pedal to try to stay ahead - but hasn't happened yet...

Sure, mine WILL do LOTS more than 62 mph uphill as well, but that's pretty much my limit unless unusually good road conditions and testosterone come into play - and those wanting or able to travel at speeds much greater that that up in the Sierra grades and similar will simply get an enthusiastic wave and thumbs-up from me!

 

There is also that factors of gearing, and actual weight of the load. Was the dodge modified. I hauled my s-10 to the track last weekend and did not see one "stock" truck touch me on the hills. I was also ahead of about 20-25 truck when i got into tech. I had a lot of poeple come over and ask me about my truck. They thought that it was chipped or more by the way i was pulling the hills. The only truck that had a little edge on me was a 7.3 with a banks powerpack. And to the point. All i was stating on my second post was that not everyones truck has problems.And i believe, but don't quote me on this. The powerband on the 6.0 is above 500 ft lbs from about 1700 all the way to about 3400. I thought that was a lot better than the dodge, but could be wrong. I almost forgot I was also hauling on 37" tires with 3.73 gears.

 

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Interesting thread. There's a few real owners on here, a few that don't even own a new 6.0 and somebody telling an extremely long story about how some truck they saw couldn't keep up. Here's the reality for the 6.0 owners that are not having the major problems (and there are less than 1% with major problems, probably 50% with the small stuff that doesn't amount to much). If you don't own one don't pretend to know how they respond. I'm 17,000 gross pulling a 6% grade in cruise control at 65 mph never downshifting once. That's a real story from a real owner who is having some real small problems that many others are too. However, having said that the only person who could possibly knock the performance of this incredible towing specimen simply has no credibility whatsoever. I've seen way more obvious Ford bashing by obvious GM and Dodge owners. I've lost huge amounts of respect for those owners who have wasted the time of those who care. I own the strongest best looking best driving quietest most comfortable truck in the world. That is both opinion and fact in regards to what's parked in my driveway. I have many honest and now jealous owners of other manufacturers. but they are respectable people who know what the real deal is. I like their trucks too, but we all know who has the king of the road and every day I wake up I feel on top of the world knowing that I get to drive it again.