F Ford.

Put it back to stock, play dumb and get a lawyer, they will warranty the motor.

For those that are saying not to rip off Ford just keep in mind that Ford layed off 10,000 employees last year but the higher ups gave themselves a raise at the same time. They arlready have enough written into what you paid for your truck to cover themselves anyway.

Didnt someone post something about pegging meters and going lean with a 6lb lower?

Adrenalinowner

 

So would a CAI and a catback void a warranty if someone's engine blows?

 

i've got a stock shortblock forsale from my 2000 Lightning. It includes pistons, rods, and crank...Let me know if your interested, i'm selling it for $800 plus shipping. I'm located in ny and could possibly meet you half way seeing that you are around the Mass area

 

Your already done my friend... You see Ford monitors this any many other websites so they pretty much know what's going on BEFORE then even look at your truck... Good luck..

 

Exactly what JeffsLightning sed,

If a ford rep is on these boards,he'll see you live in Norwell,MA,and drive a 2003 Lightning,thats seems to be black considering your pic...How many same year same look l's will show up w/ your same problem in your area?

Edit...yes a black L...after lookin at your gallery

 

Interesting but wrong.

 

I agree that if you play you gotta pay. And the guy needs to man up to his own actions. That being said, the people on here wanting to tattle on this guy need to grow the **** up. This aint 2nd grade anymore. Give your advise and go the other way. Dont insinuate to the guy that your gonna take and send this page to some dealership or ford rep. If you think these statements apply to you then your probably right.

Chad

 

If I played...I would pay, with that said FORD played with only putting four threads to hold in my spark plugs and a leaky a$$ intercooler. (yes there was a customer satisfaction recall on that one) I think they should pay too.

Good luck!!

 

My family has an rv dealership and the manufacturers pay us our regular hourly rate reguardles of warranty or not, why would it be any diff for auto dealerships?

 

Good point.

I had a 4lb and ported blower and my tune was set to step up to a 6. I put the 6 on and was running 12.1 ish down the quarter on 2 passes and called it a day. At first I thought, hmm, the tune is off. But the other day i came across a post that stock mass air meters are only good to around 450 rwhp.

I dyno'd at 437 before going to a 6. Maybe that's my issue.

Urrgghhhh.


This case i think was cold weather and high rpm shifting.

Didn't someone say like half of blown motors happen on the 3-4 shift?

 

Warranty sucks. I'm in the small engine industry and these manufacturers have put the screws to us dealers for years. They don't seem to understand that because a shop say in Florida charges 35 bucks an hour for shop labor........and are paying their techs say 10 an hour...........that say up here in Massachusetts which is one of the most expensive states to live......I can't hire techs for less than 14 an hour and because of our overhead, we get 65 dollars an hour..................that paying us the same rate as paying them doesn't work. That's why so many shops flat out refuse to do warranty work on anything that wasn't sold by them. The problem is this is against the dealership agreement.

Not only that, but alot of times, warranty will not cover diagnosis, customer contact , parts lookup, paperwork. They pay flat rate per job and they are not generous.

I've heard stories of the auto industry being very similar.

What happens is dealerships find loop holes like writing up false warranties for things they didn't fix to recoupe some lost earnings because say........Ford Pays 4 hours for a tranny swap. Your best guy can do it in 5 hours. Who pays for that other hour? Why should the dealership loose.

Next thing you know, the next car in the bay just got a warranty work order filled out for something that wasn't done to recoupe that other hour.

If they just paid shop labor and what it was actually into it for within reason, crap like this could be avoided.

 

An example of the lowest life scum of the planet!

Get a life and go yourself you P.O.S.

 

I used to work for my Dads shop...used to be OMC (Evinrude Outboard motors) Nows its BMC Bombardier. They take your normal shop rate, start out at like 50% of that, then give you a higher rate for certified techs, better shops and so on. So if I charge 60 dollars an hour, and joe shmoe charges 70 dollars an hour, he automatically gets paid better from the factory for warrenty work. Its BS. And we certainly don't short our techs when they do warrenty work. And we certainly WOULD fire them if they were taking money on the side. In the end...we now charge 80-100 bucks an hour to work on outboards, so we can atleast make a living when doing warrenty work.

 

WOW

Haven't written for awhile.... but this is riduculous. Yes, I agree the guy should pay for his new motor. What the hey, HE blew it up. But, Christ, what a bunch of rat finks or wannabes, it makes me ill. How does ratting this guy out, or insinuating that they will rat the guy out help anything? Think Ford gives a ****?

Grow up.

 

Warranty work has nothing to do with that. If you knew anything about anything, there are a million reasons why Ford is Changing the SVT program.

Shelling out peanuts to replace a few motors here and there isn't one of them