It was difficult to actually record this. But after putting it in D with the parking brake on, it's really audible. Usually, even without being in an enclosed space, it's pretty obvious sitting in the cab with the windows closed.

No, it's not magnified in the video. If anything, it's quieter than irl. If you put the video on max volume, that's what I'm hearing every day.


I really wanted to love this truck. If it had been anywhere near as reliable as my '17, it would be my dream truck, hands down. But between the 5.0 rattle (TSB applied early on), the diesel idle sounds as demonstrated here, the 1700-2000rpm fake turbo whistle, the rough shifts (TSB applied long ago), random driveline clunks especially when getting going again heading down any sort of slope), the popping in my door, and the highway vibration and bed shake, the word buyback pops into my head on a daily basis now.

Thoughts?

 

Sounds like a normal 302 idling to me.

 

If you don't turn the volume up, the first half of the video especially just sounds like normal idling.

I don't give a crap about the high pitched DI injector sounds, I know what those sound like. I care about the loud ticking sound that's biased towards the passenger side.

 

Buyback is not an option until past all the qualifiers in your states lemon laws. How many days has it spent in the dealers shop?

 

I don't live in the states. It's been in and out of the dealership about just past a week, a day or two each visit.

It's been about 4 or 5 attempts at fixing the hwy speed vibration.

 

Here in Canada we don't have the lemon law that the US has. We have Canadian motor vehicle arbitration plan (CAMVAP).

However, you basically end up going to an arbitrator and whatever they say is the final word. If they say Ford has to buy back your vehicle, they will. If they say that Ford did everything they could, then you are out of luck.

It all depends on if your issues are real, fully documented and worthy of the case.

This is from an old article, but gives you an idea of the effectiveness:

"Out of 238 rulings listed by CAMVAP for 2013, the arbitrator decided the manufacturer had no liability in 75 claims, had to buy back the vehicle in 81 awards, had to repair the vehicle in 49 situations and had to reimburse the consumer for repairs in another 10 claims. It made other rulings as well."

 

I know it's going out on a limb, but I'm trying to see what Ford can do for me in its channels. CAMVAP may not be a court, but it quite honestly presents itself like a small-claims affair and I want to avoid it if I can for the moment.

I asked around at my dealer and the selling dealer and they told me I should ring up Ford to document all the issues, then see what they have to see about a potential buyback.