I can't believe parents let their kids drive these things. If I had a dollar everytime my ankles were murder by a kid speeding around in these I'd have enough money to fill my own shopping cart.
Im at the point now that I refuse to use safelite now-I got a nick then a crack in my windshield back in July. I had Safelite try to come out FOUR times fix it-either had damaged windshields shipped to them or other things came up. I winded up using a glass guy that the dealership uses and had an OEM glass installed within four hours of calling him.
Just bought a new SD with the 7.3 gas engine. From the looks of reports on this and other forums, the problems with galled and de-laminated lifters and camshafts seems to have been mitigated. If a supplier issue, Ford may have resolved this but if it related to the variable displacement oil pump--i.e, 5 -6 PSI at idle vs 35 - 40 at 1000+ RPM, then a PCM reprogram was in line.
A May 13, 2024 memo from Stanley Balzer, Director of Engineering at Ford Customer Service, called for a 'delivery hold' on 7.3 units built at the Kentucky truck plant from Jan 4, 2023 to April 11, 2024 until a PCM reprogram could be done on these vehicles.
Has anyone spoken to their dealer about this being performed if their SD build and sold date was between the two specified? As far as I can determine, no attempt may have been made to contact the owners of units sold prior to May 13, 2024. (Note: I mistakenly labeled my attachment as a TSB which it is clearly not).
Thanks!
As A Kirby said, there's a good chance the battery is just dead. From a reliability standpoint, Ford vs. Toyota, Ford's having more minor issues right now, Toyota is having more major issues.
The new Sequoia you mentioned potentially buying has a garbage engine. There are stories of those, and the tundra's they're based on, blowing up motors left and right with only a few thousand miles on them. Toyota has issues overed a dozen recalls by this point, and still can't seem to fix whatever the issue is. Most are implying it's just a badly engineered and designed engine. They were having issues in their Lexus sedans at the time. I remember wondering if those engines couldn't stand up to grandma Sunday driving duty, I didn't know how they could possibly hold up in a truck or large suv. The answer is, they don't.
Don't give up on your Lincoln yet, the grass isn't always greener.
It's not gonna happen, but a proper Capri or escort rival, by proper, I mean an actually hatchback/sports coupe based on CE1 might be something worth considering. It sounds like CE1 is gonna be the kind of platform where almost anything developed on it is gonna be super profitable from the get go almost, so it unlocks the door to a bunch of new ideas ford wouldn't have entertained 5 years ago.