1998 FORD F-150 Complaints

DIFFERENTIAL UNIT BROKE ON TWO OCCASIONS, AND BEEN REPAIRED/REPLACED UNDER WARRANTY BY DEALER. PROBLEM REOCCURRED AGAIN, AND DEALER REFUSED TO REPAIR DUE TO WARRANTY EXPIRING, BUT STILL KNEW THAT THIS WAS A DEFECTIVE PART. FEEL FREE TO PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS ON THIS MATTER. *AK

VEHICLE INVOLVED IN A FRONTAL COLLISION OF 35-40 MPH WITH ANOTHER VEHICLE. UPON IMPACT, BOTH AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. DEALER/MANUFACTURER WERE NOT NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME. >PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS ON THIS MATTER. *AK

THE BAR FAILED WITHIN TWO DAYS OF EACH OTHER-WE HAD THE FRONT RIGHT FIXED THEN LATER THAT DAY AFTER GETTING THE RIGHT FIXED. THE LEFT SIDE WENT OUT. IT WENT OUT WITH NO WARNING AND WE DISCOVERED ICE IN THE BAR. IF WE WERE DRIVING FASTER I WOULD OF LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. ESPECIALLY IN THE CLIMATE THAT WE LIVE IN-SNOW, ICE ARE APART OF OUR DAY. WE HAVE READ THIS IS A PROBLEM HAPPENING TO MOST TRUCKS. WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE A RECALL SO NO ONE GETS HURT OR IS INCONVIENCE LIKE WE WERE-TOTAL DAYS WITHOUT TRUCK 5. *AK

TIRE HAD PARTIAL TREAD SEPARATION AND A NEAR-PERFECT RADIAL SPLIT FROM ROOT OF TREAD TO BEAD. ACTUAL TREAD SURFACE WAS FINE. DEALER SAID IT HAD BEEN "CUT." *AK (TIRESIZE: 265/7516LT)( DOT NUMBER: TIRE SIZE: 265/7516LT )

I STARTED UP MY TRUCK IN MY DRIVEWAY AND AS I PUT THE TRUCK IN DRIVE II NOTICED A SLIGHT SLIPPAGE IN MY TRANSMISSION, I DIDN'T THINK TOO MUCH OF IT BECAUSE AT THE TIME THE TEMPERATURE OUTSIDE WAS ABOUT 10 DEGREES AND I ASSUMED IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE EXTREME COLD. AS I TRAVELED APPROX. 1/2 MILE I NOTICED AS I WAS ACCELARATING THAT THE TRUCK SEEMED TO NOT WANT TO GO, I WAS ABLE TO NURSE IT ANOTHER 1/2 MILE TO MY MOTHERS HOUSE WHERE I DISCOVERED THAT THE HOSE POPPED OFF NEAR THE RADIATOR AND POORED OUT TRANSMISSION FLUID. I PUT THE HOSE BACK ON AND TIGHTENED IT BACK UP AND WAS ABLE TO PUT 6 QTS OF TRANSMISSION FLUID BACK IN. THIS SEEMED TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM AND I THOUGHT THAT ALL WAS OKAY, BUT, I WAS WRONG! ON JAN.8TH ,2001 I NOTICED THAT AS MY WIFE AND I WERE OUT THAT IT WAS BEGINNING TO CATCH HARD WHEN I WAS STARTING OUT FROM A DEAD STOP. WELL BY THE TIME I GOT HOME WHICH WAS 10 TO 15 MINUTES LATER I STOPPED BY MY MAILBOX AND I WAS TRYING TO EDGE UP CLOSER AND IT WOULD NOT GO FORWARD, BUT I NOTICED THAT I COULD GO BACKWARDS WITH NO PROBLEM. WELL I HAD TO HAVE IT TOWED TO A TRANSMISSION SHOP AND HE TOLD ME THAT I PROBABLY BURNED OUT THE "BANDS" IN THE TRANSMISSION AND IT COULD COST ME ANYWHERE BETWEEN 800 TO 1700 DOLLARS FOR REPAIR DEPENDING ON HOW MANY WERE BURNED OUT. THATS WHERE I,M AT NOW AND IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO TO GET FORD TO HELP ME, HA,HA!*AK

BOTH FRONT TIRES ARE CRACKING AND SEPERATING BETWEEN THE TREADS HAD THEM CHECKED AND FOUND THE THE CORDS ARE SEPARATING BETWEEN THE LAYERS OF THE TIRE AND ARE NOT SAFE TO USE !!! I HAVE JUS REPLACED THESE TWO FRONT TIRES WITH ANOTHER BRAND [BFG] AND THERE IS NO COMPARSON ON HOW MUCH BETTER THE TRUCK HANDLES A DRIVES I STILL HAVE THESE TIRES AND HAVE CONCTACED FIRESTONE ABOUT THIS PROBLEM AND OF COURSE THEY WANT THEM SO NO ONE ELSE CAN SEE THE DEFECTS IN THESE OTHER WILDERNESS TIRES THANK YOU JEFF. *AK

WHILE PASSING ANOTHER VEHICLE THE ACCELERATOR STUCK CAUSING SUDDEN ACCELERATION, CONSUMER HAD TO PUT VEHICLE INTO NEUTRAL AND TURN OFF THE ENGINE TO REDUCE SPEED. NLM

WHILE DEPRESSING BRAKES VEHICLE GOES INTO EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. DEALER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED, BUT PROBLEM CONTINUED. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. *AK

DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW, AS CONSUMER IS FACING DOOR, THERE IS A CRACK IN DOOR. TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER, AND THEY SAID IT WAS A CRACKED WELD. *AK THERE WAS CRACKING ON DOOR AND ROOF SEAMS BUT NECESSAY REPAIR WAS DONE ON WARRANTY. *YH

DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR PANEL IS SPLITTING WHEN CONSUMER CLOSES DOOR. THERE ARE CRACKS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, EXTERIOR IS SHOWING BIG CRACKS. FORD WAS NOTIFIED. *AK