I just had to have my tranny replaced in my 04 4x4 Scab w/38000 miles on it and I was wondering if any of you guys have had to have yours replaced. I am not hard on my truck and I havent done any wheelin with it b/c I have a lil ranger for that. The dealership hasnt given me any probs, but they did say that they havent had probs like this b/f. They said that the inside of my tranny looked like something had blown up in there.

 

There's been a couple of people that have posted about tranny failures on their trucks, so it's not unheard of. It's the exception rather then the rule, on a vehicle that is produced in the volume that the F150 is there's bound to be the odd one with this issue.

 

my 05' f-150 with 10000 miles done blowed up.

 

I've already been through two transmissions on my '04 with 58K on it. Workin on my third haha

 

Had mine replaced at 40,000. Sounds similar to your problem. I think I lost my 4th gear when it happened, they dropped the pan and there was bits of gasket and metal shavings in there, so they replaced tranny.

 

Are they covering these under warranty for you guys?

 

They are covering mine. I bought mine used as a CPO (Certified Pre-Owned) and it came with a powertrain warranty until 75,000. Lucky me!!!! It only costed my 500.00 extra when I bought it to get it Certified. Its a good thing that I did. The warranty more than paid for itself this time.

 

Want to hear something good...? I blew through 3 Ford Escape trannies in an '03 Ford Escape.

Guess how many miles?







Ok... give up?





60,000 lonely miles.

 

Makes me wonder about the driver's driving habits. I have 98,000 miles on my 01 with not problems. In 98,000 miles I put on tires, front brakes and one little switch.

 

I had the reverse clutches go out in my 2004 F-150.

 

never towed anything with it, never went off road with it, and never drove it like i stole it. so i don't driving habits had anythig to do with it. must have been built on friday at 4:45.

 

I fell ya, I am not hard on my truck at all. Sometimes it makes me wonder if mine was built at the same time.

 

Mine started making funny noises at 2000 miles. The torque converter turned itself into shrapnel at about 7000 miles.

 

Well... I never did anything but drive it normally. They service manage also told me not to use the gear lever to manual go through the gears like a "3 on a tree"...

I thought you could do this with no problem. I would go from OD to 2nd to 1st, and then upgear from 1st to 2nd, then to OD.

But I only did that on the first two transmissions. I then learned that you shouldn't do that on an automatic... but the service manager didn't tell me that on the other two. He actually got mad at me, I think, and yelled at me not to touch the gear lever while driving, unless parking it, or putting it in reverse.

Now I'm back to a true manual.