shannerdrake
Well-known member
Well, after a long hiatus, I went back to GM. I grew up a Chevy guy. My first car was a 1971 Nova SS. For reasons unknown, I made a switch to Ford about 10 years ago and bought an Explorer, then a 2013 F-150 SCREW Ecoboost, then a 2017 SCREW 5.0. I always liked the idea of supporting Ford as they did not require or accept the bailouts all those years back. I was also disgusted for years at how much GM needed to stay afloat while their executives flew around in private jets.
That being said, the 2013 Ecoboost was a POS and the timing chain stretched and needed replaced for thousands of dollars at about 70,000 miles. Ford knows this is a problem with those first gen 3.5 Ecoboost engines and has done nothing about it. Luckily I was in one of those wrecks that totaled the truck, but left me unharmed, so I took my cash and bought the 2017...which made the POS 2013 look like a peach. To make a long story short, the transmission started going out of the 2017 at 64,000 miles. Ford customer service told me to fly a kite when I asked them to help me on the repairs since I had brought it in for transmission issues back when it was under warranty and I was only out of warranty by less than 4,000 miles. I told them I had bought my last Ford.
Found a local Chevrolet dealer who agreed to take my 2017 F-150 despite its chittyness (or chittiness?) on a trade and worked with me on a better than new (certified preowned) 2021 Silverado Trail Boss. Hopefully this one is trouble free. Lord knows that I'm due for a quality truck based on the law of averages alone. However, even if it is a lemon, I have a bumper to bumper warranty until 48,000 and a powertrain to 100,000.
This Pavement Princess is scheduled for her first hunt in a few weeks for some Tennessee turkeys and will be heading west in October for Wyoming mulies.
That being said, the 2013 Ecoboost was a POS and the timing chain stretched and needed replaced for thousands of dollars at about 70,000 miles. Ford knows this is a problem with those first gen 3.5 Ecoboost engines and has done nothing about it. Luckily I was in one of those wrecks that totaled the truck, but left me unharmed, so I took my cash and bought the 2017...which made the POS 2013 look like a peach. To make a long story short, the transmission started going out of the 2017 at 64,000 miles. Ford customer service told me to fly a kite when I asked them to help me on the repairs since I had brought it in for transmission issues back when it was under warranty and I was only out of warranty by less than 4,000 miles. I told them I had bought my last Ford.
Found a local Chevrolet dealer who agreed to take my 2017 F-150 despite its chittyness (or chittiness?) on a trade and worked with me on a better than new (certified preowned) 2021 Silverado Trail Boss. Hopefully this one is trouble free. Lord knows that I'm due for a quality truck based on the law of averages alone. However, even if it is a lemon, I have a bumper to bumper warranty until 48,000 and a powertrain to 100,000.
This Pavement Princess is scheduled for her first hunt in a few weeks for some Tennessee turkeys and will be heading west in October for Wyoming mulies.