11-15-2011, 10:19 AM
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I got my truck in the shop on Sunday. Seems to be a ground short somewhere from the middle of the cab toward the tailgate.
I've never had any trouble with a Ford except for one vehicle. Turned out my brand new, '97 was a lemon and I got the dealer to buy it back and give me a new, off the line, one of a kind even, '99 F-250. Everything else that goes "wrong" is usually normal wear and tear stuff. Everyone has their own preferences on vehicle brand. I had nothing but headaches with Chevy's - with one of them catching fire on me. Friends who swear by Dodge have brake issues and nearly every one of them had to add helper springs added on to support weight that should have been easy for a one ton truck. I think Ford is the only truck that actually carries a full ton on it's one ton trucks where other brands it's actually slightly less. That could have changed since I learned that info though.
What makes my truck unique is that it's 4" higher than all the other trucks of that year and on. They put into a law here that trucks had to be no more than 15" from the ground to the rear bumper. Some kind of monster truck law to stop idiots who can't bother to pay attention and not tailgate from getting [nearly] decapitated if they rear-end these lifted trucks. I think here you need a special permit for anything over 15" that isn't stock. Luckily I don't need it as I'm grandfathered in.
People get a kick watching me get in and out of that thing with ease. The door step is closer to my hip than my knee.
I've never had any trouble with a Ford except for one vehicle. Turned out my brand new, '97 was a lemon and I got the dealer to buy it back and give me a new, off the line, one of a kind even, '99 F-250. Everything else that goes "wrong" is usually normal wear and tear stuff. Everyone has their own preferences on vehicle brand. I had nothing but headaches with Chevy's - with one of them catching fire on me. Friends who swear by Dodge have brake issues and nearly every one of them had to add helper springs added on to support weight that should have been easy for a one ton truck. I think Ford is the only truck that actually carries a full ton on it's one ton trucks where other brands it's actually slightly less. That could have changed since I learned that info though.
What makes my truck unique is that it's 4" higher than all the other trucks of that year and on. They put into a law here that trucks had to be no more than 15" from the ground to the rear bumper. Some kind of monster truck law to stop idiots who can't bother to pay attention and not tailgate from getting [nearly] decapitated if they rear-end these lifted trucks. I think here you need a special permit for anything over 15" that isn't stock. Luckily I don't need it as I'm grandfathered in.
People get a kick watching me get in and out of that thing with ease. The door step is closer to my hip than my knee.
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