I feel better already!!

Sorry guys, but it was getting downright frustrating to have to keep on posting to a thread entitled "Lincoln Blackwoods at $11,000 off. Kind of made me feel I purchased a Daewoo that lists for $12,000 for $5,000 and got a bad deal at that.

Obviously, Jim and I are pleased with our purchases and so are our respective spouses so I am trying to start a new and more positive thread. It certainly does seem there are a lot of other F150 owners that would like to have a Blackwood as their ride and in a positive sense. As it happens, circumstances and economics may just make this possible for others like the two of us to make a "Blackwood in the garage" a reality and this takes nothing away from the vehicle.

Jim, I was very surprised at your fuel mileage and I will have to use the old fashioned method of calculating that parameter. I have grown pretty lazy with the two Lincoln sedans to let the trip computer tell me my mileage. On the trip to Nebraska, I used the Nav system computer to calculate average speed, which was 78 mph over the 2,000 miles. If you have the system you know it sort of goes into sleep mode when you turn off the ignition and only starts to calculate again when you turn it back on. Obviously from your post, you were travelling a lot slower than I did. I usually set the cruise on 85 in the states I was travelling in. I then used the upper computer's figures that tells you your average MPG. May not be all that accurate. For you Lightning owners, it is kind of fun having two separate computers telling you far more information than you need on two separate consoles. The Nav system actually talks to you to give you directions which is good as neither the driver nor the passenger can really read the display very well while driving.

As a point of interest, Jim. did you experience any of the niggling problems I mentioned on your trip?

Lincoln Blackwood - American Luxury
Hope this starts us out on a more positive discussion of the vehicle.
Bill

 

Bill, just a quick FYI, the Wife put the kibosh on the Blackwood for now...thank you again for the kind offer of the loaner.

 

Steve:

The offer is still open and will be so.
Maybe after a weekend or so of being the object of a lot of attention (not to metion the good points of a Wood) said wife may change her mind.
It has happened before my friend.
Hope your wife doesn't monitor this stuff or I am toast.
Bill

 

Bill,
Will to start with I didn't have any niggling problems that you mentioned. I checked the computer and I could tell it's not telling me what I wanting to know. I guess it's giving you avg. from day one. Any way I keep record of every gallon of fuel that goes in.
To night a friend is going to put a sealer on he saves me about
$150.00 on the job. I have everthing on now bug shield, window
shield, running boards, huskey floor mats, and drl. We going to take a trip at the end of Sept. to Denver. CO.
I do have the Nav system but am learning it now. I hardly every drive over the speed limit. I know on my SCrew at 69 as the best
for mpg could get 20 mpg on interstates.
If I have any kind of problems I will post them.
Jim
PS Just love this Wood

 

Would like to remind you Blackwood owners of something in case you forgot or wasn't aware.
All Ford pickups now come with a little tin cup attached to the doors as standard equipment so you can small donation as you pass us by.

So lets start hearing that sweet jingling sound out on our highways and byways now, ok?
It will make you feel better and make us feel alot better.

(If it weren't for po' folks, rich folks wouldn't even know they was)

 

Hey Raoul,

Greetings from the beach. My truck must have been built on a Friday. No tin cup.. Maybe a local dealer can put an aftermarket mod on for me.

 

Bill,
Checking in the Wood is still going great.
In fact I haven't been to far since I came back from getting my Base permit when I came home this afternoon from town I had 651 miles on it. I looked at the Nav. trip computer and it had that I AVG. 198 mph I don't think that RIGHT I reset set it and will see what happen.
Jim

 

DAMN!! Avg 198 mph?!?

Ever considered NASCAR?

 

I've had a couple of Blackwoods pass me. I checked my cup and no cash, just a wad of chew. Still, as soon as I have enough cash I'm putting a Blackwood suspension on my truck cause if I was doing 198 I wouldn't need no computer to tell me.

(HI Koogrr, did you ever resolve that bad idle?)

 

Evening fellow American Luxury Fans

As to the average speed indicated by the Blackwood navigation system computer, I checked mine after I got home tonight and (honest, guys, Jim would not lie either) mine indicated an average speed of 119 mph. I can attribute the Blackwood computer (plural thank you) problems to two possible theories, and mine may be a real rascal. Jim has Nascar average speeds in his and something like 17 mpg and I show 12 mpg and 119 mph average speed.

Since his is based in Texas and mine in Georgia, I will have to accept that everything is bigger, better, faster and more economical in the home state of Dubbya and I won't shed a tear at all. It's all sort of BS anyway. I can't even get into the (Red/Silver/White/Black) is better because all Woods are, well.......Black.

Theory number two is that Hal has been involved in the programming of the Blackwood computers with the express mission of making us owners feel superior to all other beings on the planet in spite of the bad press, message board trashing and abandonment by the Lincoln Motor Division of FMC. Our purchase of this egregiously expensive, over the top, totally useless, environmentally harmful vehicle is OK because it is as fast as either Tony Stewart (Jim) or the Blues Brothers (me) and after all it is more economical than the poster child guzzler the Excursion.

Raoul: Tin cups are for Escorts, which Pat and I drove for years before our business finally took off. What you need on that classic ride of yours is like what we have all over Atlanta at every intersection. Our local "help the needy" beggar types use a plastic trash can such as you might use in your bathroom. Plenty of room for that on your mighty F150 according to your photo sig.
Bill

 

Can't get a code for the bad idle. It hasn't acted up in a couple months, so I'm crossing my fingers that it was a "choke" gremlin.

 

I have had my BlackWood since the 1st week in June. It is my weekend vehicle, so it doesn't get out much, but BOY does it turn heads!

I love the air conditioned seats best.

I have been tempted to accessorize, but have not done so.

Things on my list:
Weatherproof cover
Steps, electric preferred but open to anything black!
What else? It already has everything!!!

 

777:
Welcome to a very exclusive club at this point.
As far as I know, you are only the third owner on f150online to report in.

As to non-performance mods, jimsfausn has done some appearance purchases such as you have mentioned.

For myself, experience tells me that I need some window visors, especially on the front windows, a true wind deflector for the sunroof and I am now looking at various alternatives for running boards (steps). I don't really like what Ford offers as far as traditional running boards and am sort of leaning towards the chrome tubular type.

Hope you enjoy yours as much as Jim and our respective families are enjoying ours.
Bill

 

Choice #1 is the retractable steps from the 2003 Navigator. The body shop guy for the dealership where I bought my Blackwood was thinking that it might be possible to fit them to the 'wood. He told me to call back later this month and he would know for sure. I contacted Lincoln and they stated that they would NOT fit. This would be my first choice and what I am proceeding with for now.

Choice #2 is the individual retractable side-winder steps from Kodiak: www.kodiaksidewinder.com I have emailed with them, but apparently their web site is down for some reason...

Choice #3 is www.starboards.com/1062.htm, painted in the same glossy black as the truck.

Decisions, decisions...

 

Bill,
Checking in again and the Wood is still doing great I filled up today all city driving 255.1 miles and 19.5 gals fuel is 13.1 mpg.
After resetting the trip computer it's doing fine and none of the
198 avg mph. I seen another one in town yesterday got to go by and see how his is doing and tell him about this web site.

Jim

http://www.jimewalker.com/blackwood.htm