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Problems!!
Well, i recently noticed telling yall guys about my sistuation with the shaking while braking or decelerating. Anyhow, finally went to the dealer ship last week and as i suspected, and many of yall told me on this forum as well; it was the Rotors! They were warped yup and only at 21,000 miles. Dealership told me that there have been several F150s brought with similar sistuation, so they did not charge me. Some sort of recall with rotors becoming warped. Truck does not shake anymore good heavens, but now more problems are arising geesh... Now i hear a grinding noise whenever i turn on my ac coming from the lower end passanger side right under my glove comparent box. Not too mention a slight scratchy noise coming from the driver side around the far left vent, when ac is first turned on! Gonna take it too the dealer either way see what they find. Furthermore, i took my truck to a mechanic today for an aligment inspection. Noticed my truck slightly swaying to right side alot more quicker than usual when i would let go my steering wheel. Well, mechanic instpected it, and even went for a test drive with him. Guy tells me the aligment is fine, the our roads are dome shaped like so my truck is gonna ocassionally do that. So, mechanic fella tells me he is gonna run it through the aligment machine either way too see if he finds anything. Guy comes back to me and tells me my aligment specs came out fine no need to do an aligment. Fella did tell me some bad news though, he said it may not be my aligment but my tires. I do have those crappy contienital stock tires the truck came with could this be the problem?
Well if anybody has any simialr problems or any suggestions, please feel free to explain.
Thanks fellas Ed.
Well if anybody has any simialr problems or any suggestions, please feel free to explain.
Thanks fellas Ed.
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From: SouthWest Ga.
Yep Contienital tires are pretty bad. I noticed the sam with another truck I had , nearly drove me crazy. The way a front-end (the 3) man finally explaned was that with the roads slopped for run off he adjusted for this. The only thing is if you adjust to much for the pull to the right then when you're on the left side of the 4-lane then it will cause undo wear on the tires. So if your specs are good on the front-end and there is now other problems like balljoints, tierod ends etc. yep I would go with the tires.
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Try swapping the front tires left to right if it pulls the other way (the left) there's your problem (the tires) if not perhaps the brake caliper on the right side is "draging". Or it could just be the road crown as your mechanic suggested but if that were the case it would pull more on some roads than others ie not much on the freeway and more on roads in your area.
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From: Ketchikan, AK.
Originally Posted by damone
There is a noise when you first turn the AC on. It is the vent doors shutting to allow recirculated air only.
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Yes, i have 04 screw fx4.with 36000k on her
Contienital tires are pretty bad.i did replace my tires on 24000 miles 04 screw fx4.
goodluck
Contienital tires are pretty bad.i did replace my tires on 24000 miles 04 screw fx4.
goodluck
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my alignment sucks too. other than that, no problems!!
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This is usually from under inflation check that first. I can't think of how the rear tires wearing on the edge could have something to do with alignment. Maybe they are off balance and just not sitting correctly or something. I would start with the inflation though.
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