Here's another quality the new 09 F-150 has over the last gen F-150.

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"The new 2009 Ford F-150 is the latest Ford vehicle to earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s “Top Safety Pick” award. With the award, Ford Motor Company, including Volvo, adds to its leading number of 16 IIHS “Top Safety Pick” ratings, further separating itself from Honda’s second place tally of 13. IIHS awarded the F-150 its highest rating for front and side impact tests and in evaluations of seats and head restraints.

The F-150’s standard offering of Ford’s exclusive AdvanceTrac® with RSC® (Roll Stability Control) also met a newer requirement that vehicles must offer electronic stability control to earn IIHS’s top rating. Ford has been aggressively implementing this safety technology across its vehicle lineup.

“Earning a ‘Top Safety Pick’ is great news because the Insurance Institute’s tests are some of the most demanding conducted outside of our own laboratories, and customers increasingly rely on them when choosing a new vehicle,” said Susan Cischke, Ford’s senior vice president of Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering. “The Ford F-150 offers the best safety ratings, unsurpassed fuel economy and unmatched capability – three of the top purchase considerations for truck customers today.”

Cischke added that Ford engineered the new F-150 to also earn top ratings in the U.S. government’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) tests to be conducted later this year. Ford has more IIHS Top Safety Picks and government five-star safety-rated vehicles than any other automaker."

Link: http://pr-canada.net/index.php?optio...7275&Itemid=61

 

cool!!!!

 

The saftey is just one ain reason why i got a 09 over the 08. Wanted me and my familey to be safe and looks like it's going to do that pretty well.

 

Why? Is the 08 less safe? I thought the 04-08's had a 5 star crash test rating.

I guess you picked a safer, refreshed truck.

 

The 09 has many more safty features the 08 dont have so the 09 was the logical choice. so yes that makes the 08 less safe.

 

Like what?

 

1.laser welded hydro formed High strength steel safty cage
2.Advanced trac with RSC
3.Personal safty system
4.Front seat, side impact airbags
5.Side curtain airbags
6.Intergrated brake controler (works in conjunction with Advance trac and RSC)
7.Sync 911 assit

there's also some improvements to the frontal, side and roll over tests but they can be found online.

Clearly you have no idea the 09 is a new truck and not a refresh for one! Plenty of threads on many forums discusing this and i also think there's one on here.

 

I think the only thing you listed there that the 04-08's don't have is advance trac/stability control.... oh, and 911

What's a personal safety system? A seat belt?


BTW, I like the 09, and I believe it's a whole new truck, although it looks very much like the previous body style. I used the term "refresh" because I knew it would stir you up.

 

The 08's dont have any of that. They are all new features of the 09 from the 09 safty improvement list. Yeah the refresh makes me bite as i have seen so many people say it's a refresh lol. Even though we have people like DBderek who builds them telling people they are all new.

 

The 04-08's don't have safety cages, or air bags and seat belts?

I believe you're mistaken. They have everything you listed, minus the stability control.... oh, and 911.

Correct me if I'm wrong, with proof, but I don't believe I am.

Edit --- It appears that the "safety cage" in the 04-08 gets a good rating from the insurance folks. Interesting considering they don't have a safety cage.

http://www.iihs.org/ratings/rating.aspx?id=192

 

Leg and foot was rated better in the 04-08's. You should have got the 08. It's a safer truck

http://www.iihs.org/ratings/rating.aspx?id=1064

 

Tell ya what. you show me me a 08 what has all the features i have listed infact any of the features i have listed. they have none of the below from what every web site is telling me. even the ford site. Clearly you have a special 08 model with features no one else has.

1.laser welded hydro formed High strength steel safty cage (wernt on 08)
2.Advanced trac with RSC (wernt on 08)
3.Personal safty system (have no idea what this is and unsure if it means a list of things that it has) May be on 08
4.Front seat, side impact airbags (wernt on 08)
5.Side curtain airbags (wernt on 08)
6.Intergrated brake controler (works in conjunction with Advance trac and RSC) (wernt on 08)
7.Sync 911 assit (wernt on 08)

Go ahead i will be waiting for your reply.

Do a google search. I will even add you a link. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...atures&spell=1

also a link from this forum itself with details of the 09's new features. http://www.ford-trucks.com/news/idx/...50_Safety.html

 

Here's the difference:
The 2008 has the old air bags up front, and the old cab/cage with regular steel. No RSC. No side air bags. No TBC.

The 2009 has new front air bags and new side air bags. New cab/safety cage with high strenghth steel and it is 2 and half times stronger. Advance Trac. RSC. TBC.

Straight from the report....

The new 2009 F-150 features safety firsts, including standard Safety CanopyTM side curtain air bags and AdvanceTrac® with RSC® (Roll Stability Control); patented “K-bag,” a new front seat-mounted air bag that helps improve side-impact protection.

From pickuptrucks.com....To meet tougher 2010 federal rollover regulations, the F-150’s roof has been reengineered with high strength steel. High strength tubes run from the base of the A-pillar up through the roof, forming a safety cage around the truck’s occupants.

 

Hey, don't get upset because the insurance institute clearly states the 04-08's are better/safer trucks. It's right there in black and white (well yellow for leg and foot in the 09).

All the categories are clearly indicated, including the "safety cage" !! Face it, if you did your research before making your purchase, instead of listening to some car salesman, you would have bought the much safer 08! LOL!

I just proved you were wrong about your statement that the 09 has so many more safety features than the 08. Don't shoot the messenger.

 

New 09 F150 wins major award...