Reputable company needed

[evolutionvalet]

Can anyone recommend a reputable company to entrust my new F150 truck with.
After just 500 miles, it has a hole in the block and I need to get the engine out and replaced under warranty.

Would be good if the company were based in East Anglia or Midlands but not essential.

Cheers

Kev

[evolutionvalet]

TT,


Already done mate...

[evolutionvalet]

Ohhh watch out there goes the neighbour hood....

Ricki the moderators must be slacking if they let you into PH.....:

Anyways. Guys, if ya after the quickest Ford F150 Lightning in the UK then look no further than Ricki........A fountain of information that will make your truck loads quicker.


Ricki, hope my luck is better in the start of 2008 than it was at the end of 2007 buddy.

John at Mildenhall is getting the truck on the 15th so we will have to wait until then for the result...

Good to have ya on PH mate.

Kev

[evolutionvalet]

Ok, The truck is now at Mildenhall Autos and they are removing the engine for further investigation. John there is a very helpful guy.

Fingers crossed the warranty company will be out Friday and they should authorise a new engine.

Fingers crossed be back on the road again mid Feb....

[evolutionvalet]

Well here's what greeted me when I got down to Mildenhall Autos...
John had striped the engine down and this was the damage......






















This is not a great shot but the crap that was in the strainer !!!

Edited by evolutionvalet on Tuesday 22 January 19:28

[evolutionvalet]

No water. The engine was only 528 miles old...in a brand new F150 Harley Davidson truck.

Apparently, Ford have had issues with some engines having excess crank end play but not sure if thats what caused this. Could just be compontent failure.

Luckily the Uk warranty will cover it and they are going to inspect the motor tomorrow and then fingers crossed tick off for a new motor...

[evolutionvalet]

I imported it from the US...

Hopefully the warranty guy is viewing the truck today and requesting a new long block..

K

[evolutionvalet]

Craig,

Hell yeah....some of those pieces will be made into trophies for some drag meets a few of my buddies meet up at.....cant waste that little lot.

Then again it would have given me more beer drinking qudos if I could say the engine detonated whilst making a record breaking 1/4 mile run against a Lambo or something...LOL instead it went and broke whilst travelling at 25mph..


Time for a rebuild....bigger, badder and better me thinks