And I thought I hated Fords

[Wolfmanjohn]

This is what I drive for work everyday and I can say I do like it, But it has 180K miles it's on it's second motor and has costs the company over 100K in maintenance and repairs since it was bought in 07.

 

 

 

Say what!? No rear guide wheels on that 'railer!? You are indeed brave, Man!

[NitroCherokee]

Hello! You all have heard "teach your children well" well last fall my son in law and I went truck shopping. He had always had GM trucks but he needed a 6 foot box and with the X plan the price for his loaded Lariat was something GM couldn't match. So as it ended up he bought a loaded Lariat crew 4 X 4 and I bought a 4 X 2 SLE NHT Sierra. As soon as my daughter got in the new Ford she got car sick! She has never done this before, but thinks it has something to do with the way the windows in the front doors drop down. If she drives it is somewhat better. I say it is just a Ford thing!

 

Mike

 

 

My 08 F150 XLT Crew makes my wife car sick too. Didn't think about the drop in the front windows. Maybe I will "cover" that next time we take the truck and see if it helps

[Morgan1986]

I might as well chime in. We had bunch of vehicles on our GPS Survey Teams. Most all were Dudge and Furds except for my suburban and a Chevy Mini-Van for the head honcho. In the last 5 yrs we had them, 3 Furds and 3 Dudges had to have new tranmissions. 2 of the Dudges were pulled from service at less than 70k miles for what they called "Frequent and Severe Maintainence Trends". My suburban never had one problem in the 100,000 miles I drove it in <4 yrs. I once asked the head of the A&E Section why they buy some vehicles and he said because we are gov't agency (DOT) we must take the low bidder no matter what and Furd and Dudge often beat GM on the fleet prices. Out dept bought and leased 1,000's of vehicles. What used to bug me is at times I would get comments from people/public about how good the Furd and Dudges must be because the state buys so many. If both vehicles were exactly the same but 1 cent different, they would be required to buy the one that was 1 cent less. Thats why we had 8 Furds and Dudges and only 2 GM's most of the time.

 

PS - The only way they let me have a K2500 sububan was that I was the senior tech and travelled all over the state on Recon and they let me choose a vehicle from the list of approved vehicles. It had to be justified by the change of command and took a 1 yr lead time before GM built it.

 

why do you spell ford and dodge as furd and dudges ? seems kinda dum to me not to even name the competition.

[Chiefmorton]

I drive a 2010 F150 Super Crew 4x4 for work everyday, I've always been a GM man but I'll have to say the F150 is a very comfortable truck. The only complaint I have is it's a little under powered with the 4.6 but it does alright. My kids love all the room in the back seat and the 36 gallon fuel tank is very nice.

[06_GMC]

This is what I drive for work everyday and I can say I do like it, But it has 180K miles it's on it's second motor and has costs the company over 100K in maintenance and repairs since it was bought in 07.

 

 

 

Say what!? No rear guide wheels on that 'railer!? You are indeed brave, Man!

 

 

No it definitely has rear guide wheels. There is no way to go without. These ones when down on the rail tuck in right behind the rear tires. Trust me they're there

[Autonut]

Sorry people.

 

I'm not trying to hijack this tread. But seeing that 06_GMC works for Union Pacific. I thought he might like to see this.

[Deekerman]

My work for years went with the F-350 and we do lots of long hauls with a 14' to 30' trailer and the odd sailboat. They kept breaking down. But our local dealership had such good service that we kept going back. Well my boss had just bought a brand new F-450 made it from Toronto, Canada to Somewhere in south carolina. on its maiden trip. Blew a Turbo. so he said screw it and went and bought 2 brand new Chev 3500HD. havent had a problem since.

[flyboyron]

I haven't driven a Ford lately, but the company I worked for back in 1979 bought a new F-350, I guess they called it a bobtail. It had a special flat dump bed installed for dumping plaster sand at construction sites.

I loved that truck. It had a gas motor with a manual trans and it really did its job.

 

I remember one time, I was at least 1,000 lbs over the weight limit for the tires we had on it and got a ticket at the scales. I drove the truck like that for about 70 miles. It didn't even faze it.

 

It was very dependable and had lots of power. I would load it down with 6,000 lbs of materials and also fill the passenger side of the cab up and the mud flaps were almost dragging on the ground.

 

I can't say enough about that truck, I wish they were all made that good.

 

By the way you guys talk, they don't make em like that anymore.

[SierraGirl2500]

I just have to say i hate fords! (Just look at my back window or my hitch cover ) My dad owns a 2003 ford ranger.....peice of junk! It would be more comfortable to sit against a cardboard box with a pole jabbing into your back than to sit for any length of time in that. Last week i had to push it out of my drive way because it couldn't get over a 2" bump of ice......just sad! Not to even mention the rust on that thing, it started to rust on the driver side top of the windshield next thing you know the windsheild blows out of it. Too many problems!!!

[Morgan1986]

I just have to say i hate fords! (Just look at my back window or my hitch cover ) My dad owns a 2003 ford ranger.....peice of junk! It would be more comfortable to sit against a cardboard box with a pole jabbing into your back than to sit for any length of time in that. Last week i had to push it out of my drive way because it couldn't get over a 2" bump of ice......just sad! Not to even mention the rust on that thing, it started to rust on the driver side top of the windshield next thing you know the windshield blows out of it. Too many problems!!!

 

Never seen a 03 ranger rust that bad or any vehicle rust that bad . Going over a bump of 2 iches of ice ...... sounds like bull again. and for seats there not great but there not that bad . A pic of the rust of this ford ranger would be cool to see because I find that hard to believe a vehicle would rust like that where the side windows comes out .

[SierraGirl2500]

It wasn't the side window it was the front window and i will upload some pictures, and the truck was stuck in a rut with about a 2" ice bump behind it, it has winter tires but couldn't get traction. And have you ever sat in the middle of a ford ranger? If so you should know what i mean about the pole in your back!!

[Chris]

I use my personal GMC for work when I have to do the big stuff. I was offered an 08 Dodge 2500 Hemi didnt want it. My main work car is a 2009 Mercedes c350 though. I hate the maintenance bills on that. The 2003 Excursion Powerjoke we had sucked. Always in the shop for injector issues

[FuzzyB]

I have no issue with ford at all. Have driven numerous ford trucks over my years in construction as most company work trucks were fords. Some GMC's/Chevy's but mostly fords. That said, the biggest piece of junk I've ever owned was a '79 ford f100. That thing gave me more fits than all other vehicles I've owned combined.

 

My old man sold a '99 f150 to his buddy about a year ago and the truck still runs and has over 300,000 miles on it. Never had much trouble at all and it has been off road on a lot of jobsites in the past 13 yrs....I still won't own a truck that isn't made by GM.

[98silvz71]

I work construction in DFW and our company has primarily purchased Fords since it started. As you can see in my sig I drive a F-250 work truck everyday. I sold my 04 Dmax when I started to drive this truck home. I have never had more problems with a new vehicle ever in my life. I have always had used GM cars/trucks and this thing takes the cake as the worst one of any that I have driven. At 6k the cats broke apart and had to be replaced. The seal around the windshield whistles in the wind all the time, it has been taken out and replaced 3 times now. The transmission shifts so hard it feels like the darn thing is going to fall out, it has been reprogrammed twice to keep it from doing that. The motor is a dog, it has the 6.8L V10 which has a little bit of punch unloaded and in the right situation, but loaded I have to have the hammer down just to keep it above 40mph on the hills with about 8k pounds worth of trailer and barrier pickers. I have never ever seen a truck sag so much with an unloaded trailer is put on it and it doesn't matter if the truck is loaded or not the thing rides like a lumber wagon. We have one 06 2500HD in our yard that no one drives, I keep trying to get them to hand me the keys to it and I would be much happier.

[SarahsGMC]

im part of a truck team out in silver lake and most of them drive F350s they love them, i hate them so its pretty much us gmc lovers pitted against the fords every time we go out lmao.

 

last time i drove a ford was my buddys grandpas 2010 F250 super duty its a gas engine and its the most gutless pile of crap i have ever driven, when i step on the gas in my gmc you're up and gone, do the same thing in that and it makes no noise and takes forever to get going. literally the most frustrating thing i have ever driven, and to top it off it cant haul a trailer worth a shit either, a simple car hauler with my old race car on it not only made it dog it up slight hills but PUSHED this crew cab down them. And its a farm truck.. i will never understand why..