F-150 caught fire while sitting in driveway. Vehicle totaled.
2000 Ford F-150 engine complaints
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Tl*the contact owns a 2000 ford f150. The vehicle caught fire while parked and the fire spread to the house, which caused fire damage. The fire and police department investigated but have not determined the cause. The fire and police reports were available. The fire destroyed the vehicle. The failure and current mileages were 140,000.
Tl*the contact owns a 2000 ford f150 4x4. The contact stated that her vehicle was parked in front of her house on june 4, 2007. On the morning of june 5, 20007, the vehicle appeared fine until she heard the neighbors screaming. The contact discovered six foot flames rising from underneath the hood. The fire department extinguished the blaze and two fire marshals filed a report. According to the contact, the dealer and manufacturer stated that they will get back to her in ten days via mail. The vehicle was destroyed. The current and failure mileages were 86,000.
Severe smell of antifreeze in cabin of truck. "mist" from the vents. Must run with windows open and still smell and taste antifreeze. Certified ford dealership was able to find nothing wrong. Has been like this for 2 years.
Dt*: the contact stated while driving 40 MPH, the vehicle began to lose power, accompanied by a knocking noise coming from the engine compartment. The vehicle was taken to a service dealer, who determined that the # 2 spark plug had blown out of the head. One year prior, the # 7 plug had also blown out of the head, and the dealer replaced the head, however the problem persisted.
I own a 2000 ford f150 5.4 liter, it has blow 2 spark plugs, one at 90,000 miles and now a 140,000 miles it will cost $3000 for a new head I can't afford it so now I will make a $500 monthly payment to a truck loan that doesn't run.
Blown spark plug on my 2000 ford f-150 5.4 triton. Known to only have half the required threads in the cylinder head for the spark plug, have had neither compensation or a recall. This is very dangerous as it happened to me towing a boat going on to the interstate. Destroyed the plug, the coil pack (cop style) and the intake elbow of my after market intake system. Over $600 in damages.
Ford triton 5.4l v-8 heads. Aluminum heads are so poorly engineered that they will not retain the spark plugs under normal loads. Over $5,000 in repair costs, ford refuses to acknowledge any problem.
Was driving on freeway ford f150 pickup engine blow out the #1 spark plug, second 6 mths ago same engine blow out the #4 rear spark plug near passenger, now have to replace engine very costly.
2 engine failures.
"front engine cover gasket failed in line with recall 99b29. Ford does not include my truck, built 05/99 in recall campaign 99b29 indicating the original recall has been inadequate."
I bought a 2000 ford f-150 with the 4.2l v6 engine and I now have to replace the engine because of a defect that ford is aware of I have done a lot of research on this issue and have found thousands of other 4.2l v6 owners that have the same problem and ford will not do anything about it I have asked ford for help in the replacement of the engine. I was given excuses and told to go away and buy a new engine. I tried to make a formal complaint to ford but I was told that it would be brought to their attention with no paperwork filled out. I am very upset with the way a loyal customer of ford is being treated. I now have to replace the engine but cannot afford to. There is a defective seal or gasket that leaks antifreeze into the engine and causes pistons to break rod to be pushed out of the engine and several other interior engine parts to break. Ford motor company will not replace the engine even though it is a defect on their behalf not the buyer. Ford does not tell new customers about the problem and continue to sell the vehicles knowing that the engine is defective. All I would like is for ford to take responsibility for their engine and replace it with a different engine or make sure that the new engine will not cause the same problem.
The spark plug blew out of the head, repair was very costly. This should not happen. I also have had 3 coil packs go bad on this vehicle.
Well I got suckered oct 4 2003 into a 2000 f-150 w/52,000 miles . My lovely truck was doing great until sept 2004 and then my tranny went out. Just blew out. Well $1400 dollars and a lot of (I mean a lot) of money and time later (nov 2004) I got it fixed (happy times right?). Dad, me some buddies put the tranny in. So I am doing great and then I started to smell anti freeze and well some time later in aug 2005 it started a steem shop out the exhaust. Water, anti freeze and oil that is what is was. Looked like head gasket or head might be craked so got new gasket set and got heads tested and reshaped and new head bolts.($400 later) well I finaly got to getting it back together and it is still smoking (today in dec 2005). So something bad is wrong maybe block is craked. I dont know but I am very mad I owe $12,000 on it.
The passenger side rear spark plug blew out of the engine head. This truck has 54,000 miles on it and is very well maintained. Repair estimates are in excess of $3,000.00. This happened in a well traveled area and it was me and not my wife and kids stranded. There is an obvious flaw in the head design that ford has since rectified. It is outrageous that a $30,000 truck that is well maintained should have this kind of failure 18,000 miles out of factory warranty.
I own a 2000 ford f-150. One of the spark plugs blew out of it's hole causing problems with the engine.
There are no events that indicate anything is wrong until the engine has no power and runs rough. A coil pack failure on # 8 cylinder on 11/14/05. A coil pack failure on # 6 cylinder on 12/05/05. A coil pack failure on # 1 cylinder on 12/15/05. All incidents show a misfire on a particular cylinder. Correction to the problem is to have a coil pack installed along with a spark plug. Dealer suggests replacement of all coil packs.
I have a 2000 f-150 that I have had since 2000. I kept my trucks oil changed on a regular basis. On a november saturday as my family and I was going to visit some relatives about 30 miles away from my home. My truck shut down without any apparent reason. I had it towed to the nearest ford dealership to be checked. The technician said that the timing had jumped and the oil pressure dropped. The technician took the valve covers off to see what the problem was. To his surprise it was still filled with oil and after doing a more in-depth study of the engine, sludge was in the oil pan and everywhere else. I asked the ford technician as to how could this have happened and with a reply of I don't know. As a result my motor is no good.
Dt: the contact replaced the radiator several times on his vehicle. The dealer said there was no solution for the radiator problem. They suggested purchasing an after market radiator after the warranty expires on his vehicle. *ak the consumer received a recall notice in the mail regarding the radiator as part of the trailer towed package. The dealer installed the upgrade radiator, however after the installation, the consumer had nothing but problems. The radiator had to be replaced 5 times. Updated 11/29/05.
My husband and I were going to work in evergreen co. When something blew in the front of our truck. We had a immediate strong smell of gas and the truck started to shake and make very loud noises. A garage in evergreen looked at our truck and told us what had happened to it and said not to drive it to far because it could hurt the engine more than it did. We went and bought a coil and spark plug and waited all day for the guy to fix the truck. He said we were lucky he had a tool to fix it because he had the only one in evergreen. He had to rethread the block so that he could put the new plug and new coil on. He also told us other people have had this same problem in evergreen.
I own a 2000 f150 supercab with the 5.4l v8 triton gasoline engine. This truck ABS been meticulously maintained. On sun 17 july 2005, while driving with my wife and one of my sons, I experienced what I later found out to be the spark plug being blown-out of the #3 cylinder just as we were trying to merge onto a busy highway--we were lucky to make it to a breakdown lane without injuries. I opted for the "heli-coil" repair method based upon the described success rate. On wed 28 sep 2005 I broke down on my way to work after the spark plug on #4 blew-out. The local dealer explained that ford has a new design for the cylinder head but this repair was estimated at nearly the same cost as a long block replacement which I ultimately opted for. The local dealer explained that they didn't believe ford would cover the cost of these repairs (or even help with the cost) because they don't view this as a "design problem" as I do. After repeated attempts to try to persuade ford through their customer care center where I was flatly turned down I had to pay for the repair myself.
Passenger side #3 plug blown out two months later #4 blown out. Called ford and was told that there was not a problem with that head.
Dt: the consumer states that the 2000 ford f150 (lariat super cab) caught on fire and burned. The entire front end was destroyed. The fire started under the hood in front of the driver's side. The consumer had just gotten out of the truck about five minutes prior. The cruise control had not been used. The truck was like new and everything was in working order. The truck was regularly maintained. The truck was engulfed in flames within a few seconds. A witness stated to the owner that the truck sounded like it was trying to start it. The witness said the truck sounded like the engine was cranking. The fire department came and put out the fire. The fire chief stated that the fire started on the driver's side under the hood. The police were also present. Fire report, police report , and insurance report were taken. The consumer was going to take pictures of the vehicle. The dealer and manufacturer have not been called at this time, but will be called. *ak (11/04/05) per fire report, the fire was coming from the engine.
2000 ford lightning super charger intercooler leaks coolant into the engine. Once the coolant is drained, it can cause a condition called vapor lock, which will lock the motor without warning. This would be cause from the super heated air then entering from the super charger. This could cause an accident, and I'm sure is not great for emissions since coolant is now being leaked into the combustion chamber.
2000 ford f-150 4.2l v6 head gasket failure. My vehicle began overheating and smoking white smoke about 2 weeks ago. Also noticed that heater would only put out cool air, unless the engine started to overheat. Ended up needing a new head gasket, which come to find out are notorious on the 4.2l v6 motors. I caught it before any motor damage was done so no added expenses were needed. However it still was not a cheap fix. I know of at least a hundred 4.2l v6 f-150 owners who have had this problem and most would be willing to help further an investigation. I do still have the old gasket if needed.
Leaking inter cooler for supercharger. Coolant leaks in intake and could cause engine to lockup. If engine locks up first thing I will loose is steering. There was a 'customer satisfaction fix # 01bb1' , for a short while ford was fixing this at no cost to customer. The part number is spo xl3z 9424 ab. There is a number of other problems that can happen if this doesn't get fix too, aside from someone crashing because they cant steer anymore then I would have to check a lot more boxes below you can alos get alot of info on this from svt webpage forum and http://www.nloc.net/forum. *jb thanks
While vehicle parked (engine off) a fire was started under the hood on the drivers side.
2000 ford f150 caught on fire while parked in the driveway.*mr
2000 ford f150 caught on fire while parked. *mr the consumer noticed that the vehicle was on fire when he returned to the vehicle. *sc
Dt: the contact owns a 2000, ford, f150. He states that the vehicle caught on fire from the engine.
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