Gripe about your truck
11-04-2016, 08:33 PM
#161
Same. Front passenger seat vibrates and the unused seatbelt rattles with the pillar. I thought it was another knocking sound from the moonroof but luckily it's not.
11-06-2016, 02:11 PM
#163
Senior Member
My biggest is interior related creeks.....during hot/cold weather transitions, center console, interior trim varoius rattles... I am constatnly chasing stuff with mesh tape.
On the other hand, the power-train has been FLAWLESS
On the other hand, the power-train has been FLAWLESS
11-06-2016, 02:53 PM
#165
Senior Member
My gripe is that Ford still uses Sirius tuner and not the SiriusXM tuner. The Sirius tuner has a bandwidth that only allows it to tune up to channel 219. The SiriusXM tuner can go much further. This means that coming from my old truck with aftermarket radio and integrated tuner (SXV200) where I could listen to stations 300-314 (just one example of channels), I now lose these. The "fix" so far is to use the online listening feature through the phone for those channels. I don't like that option at all since A) it uses data, and B) on trips where I lose service for a good chunk of time, it's no long there. Very irritating for me.
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11-06-2016, 03:41 PM
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My gripe is that Ford still uses Sirius tuner and not the SiriusXM tuner. The Sirius tuner has a bandwidth that only allows it to tune up to channel 219. The SiriusXM tuner can go much further. This means that coming from my old truck with aftermarket radio and integrated tuner (SXV200) where I could listen to stations 300-314 (just one example of channels), I now lose these. The "fix" so far is to use the online listening feature through the phone for those channels. I don't like that option at all since A) it uses data, and B) on trips where I lose service for a good chunk of time, it's no long there. Very irritating for me.
11-06-2016, 03:49 PM
#168
Just picked up our new 2016 XLT Scab yesterday.
My only gripe thus far is that the spare tire was missing a valve stem.
Having been bitten by assembly plant goofs before, I gave the truck a thorough look over before driving off the lot.
I was literally crawling under the truck looking for anything obvious when I noticed that the spare was dead flat.
I called the salesman over and he concurred. He then drove it back into the service bay.
Seeing a teachable moment, I asked if my wife and I could see how they unlocked and lowered the spare, to which they agreed.
Anyway, when they got the tire on the ground and went to add air, the reason for the flat was obvious: the valve stem wasn't there.
The dealership apologized (obviously came from the factory that way so it wasn't their fault) and had it back under the truck in a few minutes. No harm, no foul.
Now, I have to ask....how the heck does an assembly line tech forget to put the valve stem in? Further, how is that not caught by the person putting the spare on the truck?
Anyway, no other hiccups so far.
My only gripe thus far is that the spare tire was missing a valve stem.
Having been bitten by assembly plant goofs before, I gave the truck a thorough look over before driving off the lot.
I was literally crawling under the truck looking for anything obvious when I noticed that the spare was dead flat.
I called the salesman over and he concurred. He then drove it back into the service bay.
Seeing a teachable moment, I asked if my wife and I could see how they unlocked and lowered the spare, to which they agreed.
Anyway, when they got the tire on the ground and went to add air, the reason for the flat was obvious: the valve stem wasn't there.
The dealership apologized (obviously came from the factory that way so it wasn't their fault) and had it back under the truck in a few minutes. No harm, no foul.
Now, I have to ask....how the heck does an assembly line tech forget to put the valve stem in? Further, how is that not caught by the person putting the spare on the truck?
Anyway, no other hiccups so far.
Last edited by longbedbob; 11-06-2016 at 03:56 PM.
11-06-2016, 04:50 PM
#170
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