Added another truck to my fleet

[Wayne M.]

That’s one confusing work order.
If you want I can look the truck up on Monday. I have access to OASIS and your vin is there.

 

[jgillott]

That would be great. Thanks. I will be interested to see if they write the trip to the dealer today as a separate work order or if they are going to treat it as a continuation of the last service appointment. It is a different problem (the door not opening instead of not closing).

 

[jgillott]

Here's the latest one.

 

[jgillott]

According to the work order, they did TSB 19-2007. Release date on the TSB was Jan 18 2019. I'm not sure what is different than what was done before .

https://www.f150forum.com/attachmen...rs-freezing-temps-tsb-19-2007-tsb-19-2007.pdf

 

[Wayne M.]

They charged out the same 2 seals twice. How many new seals did you get in total?

 

[jgillott]

If I'm reading the work orders correctly, 2 this week and 2 last week for a total of 4. They are the identical part #'s to the ones last time around.

This is starting to make my head spin.

 

[jgillott]

Am I to assume that they have to replace these seals every time they disassemble the lock mechanism?

 

[Wayne M.]

I severely doubt all 4 doors have the same seal. I really doubt these seals need to be disturbed to get door panels off.

 

[jgillott]

Do you think those are for the front doors only?

 

[jgillott]

Truck is finally clean enough for me to get a picture of Ford's "fix"

Front door

Back door

Looks like they just greased the heck out of those latches and added that white seal on the outside. I don't have a picture of the last seal, but I believe it was black.

 

[TFucili]

Genuine FoMoCo door latch anti-door-fly-open grease!

 

[jgillott]

Genuine FoMoCo door latch anti-door-fly-open grease!

Guaranteed to make a mess inside and outside. You should have seen the amount that came out of the exterior door handle over the last couple of days.

 

[JR]

Guaranteed to make a mess inside and outside.

Just look at it as free undercoating....

 

[jgillott]

Just look at it as free undercoating....

LoL. Yep.....very true.

 

[Dl5treez]

Back in the 90s the infamous Ford “door ajar” light issue was sticky switches. A Ford SSM “fix” was to clean the latches, replace the switches, and lube with that same grease.

It actually sort of worked for awhile.

 

[jgillott]

This door latch fix will work for a while also, especially with the warm weather on the way soon.

 

[BDaugherty]

Last September I bought my wife a new 2018 Expedition with the 3.5 ecoboost and 10 speed auto. It has nearly 14,000 miles on now and has been excellent. It’s the XLT package but loaded with extras. Her previous vehicle was a 2008 hybrid tahoe with 235k miles.
At the risk of being severely flamed by Wayne, I’m so impressed by it that I now want a F150 for myself.
I did a lot of reading on the gen 2 ecoboost prior to purchase and I bought the extended warranty (6yr/125k miles). I’ve also been doing services at 1/2 the recommended intervals.

 

[Wayne M.]

Nope. Not flaming! Hey I just had to swallow some mopar pride when I took grandma car shopping. We looked at a Kia Soul. I WOULD NOT buy a Ford car or car based SUV, but I gotta say their large vehicles are ok nowadays. Still the tech of the eco boost goes against something I would own.

 

[Wayne M.]

BD, tell me more about the 235,000 mile Tahoe Hybrid! How did the trans/ motor/ gen and the High voltage system hold up?

 

[jgillott]

You are not going to be disappointed on the F150 platform. My only suggestion would be to look for a 157" wheelbase crew cab like I have instead of the standard 145". Not many of them around, but I just love that 6.5' bed with the crew cab instead of the 5.5'.