Posted by wisbaker on January 19, 2015 at 18:12:59 from (173.26.84.185):
In Reply to: 1999 f150 posted by jayinNY on January 18, 2015 at 19:20:36:
Okay, don't know if Jay is going to come back and read this post as it continues to grow. Several weak spots or areas of concern have been pointed out about this particular series of Ford trucks. Those are the weak spots, look them over and figure out if the one you're looking at has these common Ford maladies as well as the normal stuff you look at when doing due diligence before purchasing any vehicle. It has been pointed out that the darn thing is 16 years old, not a lot of miles but still old. Yes some of the engines shucked out spark plugs, the older ones more so than the newer ones with the performance improved engines, those have a little more meat on the head where the plug screws in. My personal 01-F150 with the 4.6 hasn't blew a plug out, it's at 155,000 miles and has had plugs changed twice (yes I know the service interval is 100,000, don't ask) in that time it killed two COP (coil over plug) coils. I've done ball joints once. It grew up in Wisconsin and is still on it's original exhaust system manifolds and gaskets, how ever every clamp on the exhaust system has rusted off and I replace them before other stuff got messed up. When I was with the county our highway commissioner's work vehicle was an Expedition, we sold it with 275,000 miles on it and it hadn't blew out plugs. The only problem the Sheriff's Dept had with a Crown Vic engine (or any of their Ford trucks) was when one of our superstar Deputies came over the crest of a hill with his foot flat on the floor and it got airborne, free revved and let all the noise (and structural integrity) out of 3 connecting rods. The Ford modular engines (4.6, 5.4, 4.6-4 Valve, 5.4-4 valve and the 4.6-3 valve and V-10 2 and 3 valve variants) actually have a decent service history, most of the cop cars here in the U.S for a period of about 15 years were all Ford Crown Victorias with a version of the 4.6 in them. A lot of those cop cars were sold to fleets after decommissioning then used as Taxi cabs. It wasn't uncommon for them to rack up 500,000 miles before they junked them. I see a lot of Ford truck of this vintage for sale with over 200,000 miles on them, this is not an endorsement just a fact. I'm also betting a lot of those 200,000 mile trucks will not deliver the same level of trouble free service they did to their former owners because they're 11 years or older and have 200,000 miles on them. they can be bought for $2,000 or less, a new F 150 is going to be north of $30,000 will a $2,000 dollar truck give you 6% of the service a new $30,000 truck will (probably).
Or to look at it another way you can probably buy a truck like this for less than the sales tax on a new one.
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