3 Fords I Would Never Buy

here's the 2010 F-150 Platinum Edition with all-wheel drive, maybe you were put off by the 50k price when new. A customer bought it for sixteen thousand dollars a year ago, it still works well, he admitted to me. You've only used four-wheel drive once, but I mean, if you need a big advantage from four-wheel drive when it comes to used vehicles, new ones sure cost a lot more than resale value. The price of used four wheel drive vehicles is much higher, so although you will pay a little more, you will still save a 16 ton versus 50,000, if you get tired of it and want to sell it, it will be very easy to sell.

Here in Tennessee, the Army guys are dying to get their hands on a four-wheel drive version, so even if you don't want four-wheel drive, it might be to your advantage if you plan on owning it for a while and then sell it, you can get the two wheel drive versions much cheaper, but you will get much less when you sell it and they are useful if you live where it snows or go hunting. You're not going to get stuck in the mud, no, he's only spent about two thousand dollars on repairs since he bought it, the main one being that the brakes kept wearing out, now he's tried drilled and slotted rotors and then he said they were out of whack. . faster, that's why I advise people not to do it, especially in a truck that has a racing design, it's for multiple stops and starts, stop and start running around the track, hit the brakes, release the brakes. brakes at high speeds so the brakes don't overheat now you generally don't drive a truck like that you hit the brakes once to stop it and you're stopped so they actually stop better without drilling or slotting because there is a larger surface area that is for continuous application and then acceleration, so don't waste your money on that on almost any vehicle unless you're racing it and oddly enough, in my experience the best brake pads you can get for these things are justno , a Japanese company, yes, but they make some Atlantic pads, it costs a little more, but they are great pads, they can handle the heat dissipation because they are ceramic, they don't eat up the rotors as much and they can last a long time which is pretty amazing if you put Japanese pads on your Ford.

On the truck you will probably find one that lasts longer and the rotors will last longer too and if we look under the hood the graph is dirty but who cares, had to change the VVT ​​sensors on the engine which is no big deal thing, he did it himself. and then it ran fine again, that's a typical problem with these engines and hey, you can do it yourself easily, it's a simple job, just watch my video on how to change variable valve timing solenoids, they just screw and unscrew and The advantage of this particular design is that they are older, you don't have to reprogram anything and some of the new ones you will have to reprogram and then you have to pay a guy like me, but on these older ones you just put them on the disk and the computer calculates Another reason was discovered why maybe buying a slightly older vehicle is a good thing and here's a tip: this is a 2010 5.43 V truck.

The previous ones had problems with spark plugs breaking and Ford had to redesign them, so if you are looking at an older one from 2010, now you want to have the spark plugs checked, most guys have changed them to the new Ford design, but let's say you have one with low mileage, maybe a couple owned it old and still has the original spark plugs in that case. you want to be very careful and you want to remove them all, go to Ford and buy the new redesigned plugs and put them in. It was a design for all four.

You know. If you buy an old one, it still has the original plugs. I want to do it now and not later because if you have a problem and they blow out it can ruin the threads, you may have to put new cylinder heads on in case they are there and you can get them off. with a long extension bar and a plug, do it now, buy one, it's 2010 or newer, they don't have that problem now. The other thing that went bad was the alternator, typical for an alternator, it lasted about a hundred thousand miles, which you

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He makes his own stuff so he went to AutoZone, it cost him about a hundred dollars and it came with a lifetime warranty, he'll

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have to buy another one and there are Auto Zones everywhere, I'm not paid to say this is just the TRUE. I know I have stuff in them and if you break down in California you just give them your phone number and then they'll look it up and you'll get another alternator for free so worry about you now there's no air in the oil cap. You can see it says 5W20, even Ford knew you 5W30 because it lubricates better now in some of the modern cars.

That is sacrilege. You can't because they need super light oil to lubricate everything, but this is a classic V8 that you really want to use. a 5W30 on this one now you

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think the owner is a bit of a fanatic, he bought it used and didn't realize when he removed the valve covers that there was some varnish on it meaning the previous owner didn't change the oil enough , so what does it do? Change the oil a lot. Change the oil every two to three thousand miles. It's a very good philosophy about it. He knows the guy he abused didn't change the oil enough because of the varnish.

You may not realize it, but at the bottom of your engine with the piston pin with a connecting rod to the crankshaft there are thin metal bearings and that is what it moves on. If you have a battered vehicle, those bearings might wear out a little bit and it's insidious because you won't hear anything until it's too late and the connecting rods start knocking Dan, you have to rebuild the engine, if you change the oil a lot, if there is any place, it really will will wear less and you should consider that the connecting rod bearings are at the bottom of the The engine is fine, where does the most dirt go to the bottom of the engine?

So it makes sense that oil is cheap. Engines are expensive and by doing so this truck is treating it well. It works like a clock. You shouldn't have any problems with the engine and I mean that. The guy is pretty smart with these trucks, the old one didn't have two wheel drive, he bought it for eight grand, it got hit by a deer and he made a few thousand off of it by fixing it up on a Maaco and pocketing the difference and then selling it for the same price he paid for it, eight thousand dollars.

Just think that the original owner of this thing lost thirty-four thousand dollars when he sold it. He bought a used Ford and not only broke even when buying and selling it, but also made thousands when he got hit by a deer by fixing it cheaper. He didn't wear it yet it looked good, obviously because he sold it for eight, but he actually made money on the deal where the guy who bought this lost thirty-six thousand dollars. which is why you might consider a used truck next time. The other advantage of using it is that it has chrome tow hooks.

The interior has immaculate leather. He's 11 now, so you know the driver's seat will have holes. That's just Ford. leather, but I have tons of space inside, actual space for three people in the back, heating, air conditioning too, for a lot less money, you get all this luxury, you save a ton even on a new, stripped down one that has none of the what do you want. There is nothing wrong with getting a used F-150 truck, they still have a lot of things you can do yourself like this owner did and even if you don't find a mechanic like me, there are so many people who know how to work with Ford, it's not So. like if you're taking it to the Maserati dealership, it's going to be a four thousand dollar tune up and, uh, they're common vehicles that people know how to work on and the parts are very cheap.

Look at that hundred dollar alternator. Try it with any modern. car is going to be a lot more than that now you could say this big gas guzzling thing, well it gets 22 miles per gallon on a highway, can't argue with a huge vehicle like this, okay check it out, a sunroof and a pickup truck what's the world coming to and if you really want the heist of southern luxury a power window to climb into the bed so you can throw things in the bed while you're going down the road and you don't have to slow down Now here's some real world tips on Flex Fuel.

His fuel economy on his normal trips went from 20 miles per gallon to 12 when he tried Flex Fuel, so he no longer uses it. Now, of course, it worked perfectly fine. The thing is ethanol. It burns cleaner, but there is a big problem with ethanol is that it has fewer British thermal units BTUs than gasoline, about 20 percent less, but it got much worse gas mileage than 20 percent worse because it is It gets really complicated now that speeding fans love it because you get more horsepower it just makes more Zing because it burns faster and cleaner, but I didn't feel like going from 20 to 12 mpg. average gasoline, so that was the end, fuel is just a little cheaper. burns cleaner yeah if you're going to get worse gas mileage it doesn't really make any sense except farmers are growing corn sorry they're farmers but I'm not a fan of E85 either so if I'm looking for a good one used truck, especially a 4x4.

Hey, if you can find an F-150 like this, get a good used one, you can really save a lot of money and still have a nice truck. The styles haven't changed much. their trucks have boxes in the back they can do whatever they want in the front they are still trucks they stay in style this one still travels in style why spend 60 to 80 grand on a new one today let someone else I took her? all that loss and getting it when there's a lot of life left here is a real live 2022 Mustang Mach EGT now of course realize they're not giving them away now the Mustang Machi all, they said they start at 45. forget it. that this was 75,000.

I have to say to Ford's benefit that they didn't rate them on the calls and they didn't say we're going to add this, this and this, you paid the list price that was on the internet, so you know. what he was getting into and they didn't sell them a bunch of extra crap, they are honest at least about that and I know they are always changing things, they are trying to make it so you can't resell them but if I wanted to resell this one right now I probably could make 20 thousand dollars, but he likes the car, so no, but Poor is trying to say, just like GM, they are trying to say, well, you can't sell the car for a year or we.

They will bypass the warranty blah blah blah blah blah actually they haven't done it yet but the price without payment and you got it and you didn't receive any ring but on the other hand you ordered it in September and you just received it. always eight months before I got the vehicle now of course it is a fully electric car and you would think the fan is working fine the batteries and motors need to cool down; You will often hear the fans running because they have to keep the batteries and the generator from over eating now this one has the extended range battery it was getting a 240 mile range but I just took it three days ago and they did upgrades to it software for which they removed it and the range is now 265, but and he warned me about this once you go over 70 miles per hour you start to lose range much faster and he also discovered something else: there is a power band which we'll show later when we drive it, when you go below 70 and push it, it will start to lock.

Acceleration Power Normally you will have full acceleration power, but noticed that above 70 the bars don't go as far and some of them are blocked with gray. I guess Ford is limiting the top speed. Maximum acceleration. Realize that this is an electric vehicle that has. 600 pound-feet of torque, that's a lot of torque. They are worried about people losing acceleration. I guess it goes over 70. Stop spinning things somehow. They are limiting it with software. Realize that the top speed of this thing is 124 miles. an hour which is obviously the limit of the computer, you can slowly make it go much faster.

They don't want to do it much faster. I mean, they're being logical here. You know who needs to go 124 miles per hour? The Teslas are going to go over 200 miles per hour, the really fancy ones, but you are going to lose a lot of power, they are much more dangerous, they are making this a real driving car and not a muscle car that goes to the race track no, that's not what it's about, it costs you bad taste, you're going to go, look at this, look at this, this program is on this trip, how it used energy, four percent of it was used in climate use because the air conditioning is on, It's hot 90 us.

Use it to drive five percent accessories and one percent external temperature. You can see you have a really nice dashboard there and we'll start from scratch here and turn on,We will play interesting music that has not been started now. I have to say one thing. I'm artistically disappointed in that startup when they brought me that Ford Bronco. He had the best startup with Adams and then they were molding to make a Bronco in a desert. They had phenomenal graphics for me. This is a bit basic for me. his fancy electric Mustang, of course, being an electric vehicle, it has all kinds of plugs, it's charging, you can just charge your phone by putting it in there and it has a stick shift even though it's electric and there's really no transmission, now I do.

I have to say Ford is being a little sneaky here, let's look at the driver's door pillar here, what does it say, it says manufactured by Ford Motor Company and you can see they even have some sort of hidden one back here, they don't mention anything. that all of these are built like magic, not a single word says that this baby was made magical, but they all are now when we open it up the front part has no motor, it has a frunk, it has a little space here, you can put things in it, not for motocross so it has that new coolant and speaking of which you can see here that using the air conditioning consumes five percent of your range and I asked him why is it using energy which it doesn't say anywhere on the vehicle but It's all-wheel drive with 600 lb-ft of torque, it's got these huge Brembo brakes, the suction cups are gigantic, now you notice the rotors aren't. perforated, they have ventilation inside, but they are not perforated, I realize it is a 4,500 pound car because the batteries are very heavy, they are very heavy, right, you drill the holes, they dissipate heat even better, they wear out very quickly too .

I realize this has regenerative braking to use the power, that's how it gets the range even though it weighs so much and has so much power, so the brakes aren't used as much in a normal car, but if it had discs slotted and drilled, understand One thing is that there are noisy butts too, they can't be too loud, plus you'll often get vibration from the pedal too, so unless you're racing with them you don't want to do that to them. Also, let's be real. I'm not going to drag people in these things that have powerful cars because the speed of this thing is limited to 124.

Those guys will do 180 200, they will run you off the road. Hey, it's got four doors, decent space in the back. He has it very low. space in the truck hide things in here so people can't see it one of the best things about it is to take a look at it it has a glass cover it's Gorilla Glass just like my phone will be much bigger you won't have to worry about shit anymore of birds ruining your ceiling paint is Gorilla Glass, wash it and clean it and it will look good forever. Hopefully they have good quality control on the Gorilla Glass bug.

Hey, let's face it, Corning has been doing stuff like this for a long time. He usually stays. Pretty good, looks good and will probably look good for quite some time if you are thinking of buying an electric car of any kind, this includes here is a warning I must give you, unfortunately these guys do not carry out repairs. EV data is a different technology so people have to learn, but check this out, here is my data system that I use and pay for every year. I am a mechanic who repairs cars. Typically there will be thousands of pages of information.

There is practically nothing in this, let's look at the electric propulsion, this is an electric vehicle, right here it is the only thing that delivers a technical service bulletin and only one, well, in normal cars. I'll have thousands of pages of data that would display even on a Prius. here is the electrical system this is how it works this is how you can take it apart and replace the motor this no they don't give you any of that information now teslas are even worse no info on data disabled for a tesla i can't get any info now , this thing has an OBD port, go here, there's the part that just plugs in, so we'll do an auto scan here and unfortunately this scan tool won't scan it, so let's get another one, so I'm trying a different scan tool , I checked it now, I read the VIN number but I can't access it either, so no, now I took it to the Ford dealership and they were able to access the information with their special Ford computer.

Basically, they are Like Tesla, they don't make it easy for anyone to work on it or get information on how to fix it, so if you buy one of these, you know I'm not a fan of these insurance plans, in this case buy the extended service. plan paid $2,500 and it's eight years or 80,000 miles you better have that because they are made in Mexico they are new vehicles if something goes wrong the sky is the limit it's like when you go to the doctor how much is it going to cost you? cost doc oh don't worry I will mail you an invoice and now they are at that level because I can't access this information even with my seven thousand dollar scan tool and even if I access the information What does it mean?

I can't say because the data systems don't include them. It includes them, but it doesn't really give you any information, so now, whatever doesn't make sure you buy that extended plan for eight years or 80,000 miles really, if you're one of those people who is going to buy something like this and you're going to put on 40-50,000 miles a year, then you'll be on your own after 80,000 miles, realize that, but with that being said, take it for a spin, we'll put it in Drive and Drive and off we go, we'll We realize that, like a Tesla, it has regenerative braking, so you take your foot off the accelerator.

Look, it stopped on its own, so you have to get used to that. Now I'm going to wait until we get to our little race track and I can say that when I step on the gas, this thing is crazy. 600 pound-feet of torque is quite a bit. I also realize that it is a crossover vehicle, this is not a normal vehicle. Mustang, regular Mustangs handle much stiffer, this is not a race car, the handling is not as good as it would be in a Mustang that is set up to race and it will take some getting used to taking your foot off. hit the accelerator and it stops on its own, but of course with regenerative braking and regular bricks you want to stop this thing, man it stops on a dime and you realize it's also got all-wheel drive which will make it Driving and stopping will be very easy, so "We'll hit our little race track in the sky here.

I can feel it coming. We'll do it from a complete stop, although we'll go around the bend here. Okay, let's put the pedal to the metal and Let's see what happens. It takes off like a rocket and we're going 90 miles per hour and let's say you want to pass someone here we're going 40 with four look how fast it goes people this is a small rocket at least up to 126 miles per hour so it has limited speed and , although it's not a Mustang sports car, it's a Mustang e crossover SUV. It has decent handling, it's not racetrack handling, but you can take these corners pretty fast and you don't feel like you're losing control. traction control.

Lane departure elements. The owner showed me a strange thing: when you're driving on a highway, you can fold them up while going 80 miles per hour or whatever 60 is. That's not a good thing. Because the mirrors and the lane change system now also have cameras but they are at a different angle and he said it really ruins the lane change and the warning system because now the sensors, as you can see at the bottom , in a different direction, I guess it's a mistake on Ford's part and I'll have to fix that there is no way you can retract those mirrors while driving down the highway at higher speeds, you notice they have it locked automatically. they come out themselves, they just stay there until I press the button and then they come back out, yes that's every foot on the brake and it stays there waiting for the light on its own and of course you won't find anyone who doesn't love That 600 foot-pounds of torque is crazy.

It has normal car features like a normal turn signal that normally clicks. This is not some crazy spaceship. You have to be an alien to understand how to operate it. car yes, they are made in Mexico no, you will

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find any Scottie, at least as it is today, that can work with them because not only can we not access the information on a car, but we also cannot access any information on our Data Systems doesn't either, so you'll have to go to the Alphardo dealership and pay a fortune unless you buy one of their eight-year, eighty-thousand-mile extended warranty plans, which in this case I'd say you really have to do with a car like this one, okay?

He shelled out 75 grand for this car, right, 2,500, spend it, baby, spend it, it's fast, there's no arguing about that and it's fun to drive and pretty interesting. He just took it in and realized what new vehicles they were going to have. Problems caused. Had a software update. Done they updated the software and their range went from 240 to 265. I have seen people with Tesla after their software update the range went down and this went up so at least they are headed in the right direction the only direction I want . I would start doing these things in Detroit instead of Mexico.

Well, here we have a 2016 Ford Focus. I'm going to tell you the truth about them, this particular one is a 2016 and it's covered under their warranty and they have to fix it. transmission correctly or they have to buy back the car and Ford claimed that they bought back thousands of cars and an average of seventeen thousand dollars per car, which seems like total nonsense to me because every customer I had that was offered a buyback, they offered me There are two big 2500s, so you wouldn't believe it from their numbers, but here's the history of the car and it might surprise you.

They are not as bad as some people think. Now that the Focus was designed as a world car, they actually build it everywhere. the world Germany, America, Taiwan, call it all kinds of places, it was basically designed by the Germans and the British were behind the design, it's a pretty European design, everyone who knows anything about cars knows that Ford had to retire them and fix them. automatic transmissions or buying the car back, one of the reasons this happened and really because they were built poorly is because they were fixed poorly. It has the dual automatic transmission that has two clutches inside, but no clutch pedal. the computer shift now had problems with this he bought it used and the transmission failed so he took it to the dealership and then they reprogrammed it but of course that didn't fix the problem so he took it back and they reprogrammed it again but then he investigated and found out they had to fix it or buy the car back.

It is a double clutch system. They put new clutches in the transmission and reprogrammed the car and it has run perfectly fine ever since. Here is the problem. of these dual clutch transmissions in this form, the automatic transmission, but they are two clutches, without a clutch pedal, the computer operates the clutches electrically and electronically, so instead of you stopping in one foot crop, the computer makes it so you can engage it on the fly. To engage the automatic transmission it does it on its own, anyone who is a mechanic can remove the new clutches and put them back in correctly because it has to be reprogrammed in various states with the fancy Ford computer to reset it and shift. correctly, if you just take it apart put new clutches and put it together it would shift like shit because it has to be reset, the computer system has to be reset, if it's not reset and reprogrammed it won't shift properly, that's why originally Of course the dealers they want to save money twice they said oh we just need to reprogram it, whereas reprogramming is perfectly fine when you put in new clutches and then reprogram them, you have to do it, but if the clutches are physically worn out, you can reprogram them until the cows come home and they don't It's going to work fine because the clutch is physically worn out and as far as I'm concerned it's taking a nap.

The main problem with these cars was that idiots were working on a car and even at the dealerships. They try to tell people, well we'll just reprogram it and that will fix it because you just want to push buttons, you don't have to do the big work, it costs a lot of money, right, they added problems to problems. I'm not saying it's okay, yes the clutches wore out. If it was still under warranty they would say oh it just needs reprogramming. No, it didn't, so everyone thinks that the preprogrammed thing didn't work on their garbage and they finally solved the problem. agreement in which they could fix these things for free, put in new clutches and reprogram them or they could buy the car again and ask, as usual, the people at Ford.

I have had clients with them and they offered them 2,500 for the car Ford stated that they paid 17,700 on average for the ones they bought again and supposedly they bought thousands of them but I wouldn't believe their figures about what they offered because every person I saw was They offered peanuts for the car. I'll tell you something that surprises me.I wonder what happens to those who buy again. They never tell anyone: Do they ship them to Europe or Poland or somewhere or South America and then unload them after they bought them back? I never tell you what they do when they buy them back, but regardless, this one now runs great because they replaced it, reprogrammed it properly, and I would get over 35 miles per gallon out of this thing driving with dual clutch transmissions. get phenomenal gas mods because the computers can shift it to save power whatever you want to set it to and get really good gas mileage because of their design they have a lot of gears and they can shift to save fuel if you have economy or if you you have for Speed, they will shift a little later and have more acceleration now, as we look under the hood, 93,000 miles, burns oil, none of the reason it also gets good gas, it's not just the transmission, as you can see here , there is the high pressure fuel pump, this is a gasoline direct injection engine, the GDI system sprays gasoline directly to the engine, it is very efficient, this is how you can get good gas mileage, now it had to replace the fuel pump, you can see he replaced this pump, it's a high pressure pump, but he did it himself and it only cost them about a hundred dollars.

Now check it out. Fuel pump here, easy access for a hundred bucks. Who cares? Originally you would have to pay a lot more money because you have to buy it from the dealership and yes, yes, they brand them and everything, but since these are world cars, they are made everywhere, parts are available everywhere and there are a lot of replacement parts that work well. Now of course in a lot of places especially in Europe they drive standard transmission cars so they don't even care about the dual clutch, they got a regular one and drive it themselves but here in the US everyone drives automatic , so they had to make one that had Phenomenal Gas Mileage Automatic, they also got decent pickup, it's just that they left a horrible taste in people's mouths when the broken Ford just said, "Too bad, it's out of warranty, but then after the class action lawsuit and everything Ford settled, then they fix them.” free or buy the mat, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring the bell.