Its really hard for me to believe this raptor to be anything but a Ford F-150....there is no coverage for this truck if it is driven offroad! Blows

what makes it a SVT truck? whats so special about it if you cant go offroad with this vehicle? this isnt the first ever nothing if they wont cover you for the first 35K miles.

 

Guess I better pull out the warranty on my XLT. I think I may have voided it about 20 minutes off the lot from the sounds of it.

 

OP what do you know about the raptor? from your post it doesnt sound like much at all.

there are several youtube videos of the truck off road and thesmokingtire.com took one on bullrun (hasnt aired yet)

 

Where im getting at is that your warranty isnt any different from mine with my Raptor.

They show how this truck can go high speed on desert trails with the rear locker, but if something went wrong with your rear locker while going at those speeds, you will have to pay for it on your own. or even if you were going 35mph, you will have to pay for it

i dont know, but the warranty wont cover you if something does happen out on the dunes, its basically the same warranty as your normal F150

so thats why i asked, is this in fact an SVT vehicle, or just your normal F150?

i know with lightnings, everything on that truck would be covered, to include the super charger and all, withthis truck, you cant utilize all of its functions onroad, so you really dont know if your hill decent will work or offroad mode will work, or even your rear diff locker, all until you take it offroad, and if something does happen, you probably wont get covered cause you were offroading and they can say its your fault for it breaking.

 

badge says it all. i do understand your point and im sure that would be something a dealer would have to decide or it would state it in the warranty. but those trucks are built pretty tough and if you had the money to buy one and wheel it then i dont see fixing it being an issue

 

compare the raptor to an same year "regular" F-150 4X4 and then come back and answer what you notice about the differences...

 

I understand what your saying but I'm not sure you are seeing it right. No they will not cover anything that happens while you are offroading and beating up on the truck, although it is what the truck was made for. But only if they can prove it was done offroad. As with the Lightnings and I had 2 of them. It was made for speed, racing and having fun. But, if they could prove that you were racing or abusing it and something broke, I promise you they wouldnt cover that either. If you read the fine print in most warranty manuals, it clearly states that they will not cover abuse. Unfortunately for the consumer, this includes what the vehicle was specifically built for. Basically no matter what you buy or what brand you buy, if you do anything other than normal road driving, warranty can be denied.

 

thats what i was getting to, people see flics and movies of this thing doing 90MPH offroad...if you are going to even hint of the fact of doing the same, and if you did get an honest breakdown due to manufacturer breakdown, they can by all means deny your claim regardless who is at fault.

 

It's the same as Hummer and Jeep not covering their vehicles if you have been offroading... (specific clauses in the warranty).


You think Ford would sell and cover an offroad, purposely built vehicle? Let every owner use & abuse it and when it breaks, fix it at no cost to the owner? If the owners knew their warranty covered offroading, how much more "abusing" would they do, knowing they wouldn't have to pay a dime to fix it? There's a reason Hummer, Jeep, Ford, etc. don't cover "offroading".

 

Actually the fairly recent MotorTrend Video I watched about the SVT Raptor, the FORD SVT Engineer riding with him said "The RAPTOR "IS" the only stock built 4x4 truck you can actually jump and be covered under warranty". And I'm thinking about selling my 06' FX4 Supercrew to get one, since overseas military car sales is offering me 6 grand off, and plus my warranty is 75,000 or 7 years on and OFF road bumber to bumper. (I have watched prob about 100 vids of this thing in action and listened to the engineer's talk, it truly is built for hardcore offroad, and if something broke they went back and made it better then tested again. So I think thats why I think Ford will honor most "offroad" warranty work.

 

you obviously dont know what your talking about.....everything on the raptor is covered if you use the truck for driving on normal roads, this is the same for the lightning, cobra, normal f150 and all other vehicles for that matter. ford will not cover any damage done to a cobra if it was at a drag strip, same with the lightning.

so in other words coverage on the raptor is the same as all other vehicles, if used on normal roads in normal conditions it is all covered, if you take it to any sort of "off road" condition and break something its not covered, regardless if the "off road" is the desert or a race track

 

where you located?? they are real close to selling thier max in Europe so you better hurry

 

There have already been a couple stories reported of Ford helping out on repairs that happened off road on other forums.

One involved a snapped rear axle tube, a fluke break that happened to occur off road, and if I remember right Ford helped tow it to the nearest dealer, out of the desert, got parts shipped in, and fixed in record time.

PS I own a Raptor and honestly feel that Ford will support off road warranty issues in REASONABLE circumstances, IE, not tipped on its side at moab and expecting warranty work on the body etc. Blow a shock off road, I bet they will cover it. The reason I purchased extended coverage....

 

I dont know of any extended warranty that does cover shocks, as if there is, please post the paper work showing so people can purchase the same said warranty.

I looked at more than a handful, those extended warranties do nothing for you, you could save the 2 grand and put it torwards something else.

and you are strongly mistaken if you think Ford will cover your vehicle in a offroad situation. it all depends on the dealership, has nothing to do with Ford or SVT. If the dealership wont cover you, Ford will agree.

if you blow your shock out while offroading, you need to do your homework as to what dealership you would bring it to.

They all could care less about what some engineer said on a youtube video, or what some editor mentioned...they will treat your truck like any other F150, unless you find a dealership that actually knows what this truck was built for.

 

Id like ford to prove that it was indeed off road if something were to break...

also...I had a Ranger not long ago and busted the driveshaft off road...they didnt ask a question just replaced the driveshaft.