My 2005 ford f-250 superduty 6.0l diesel, first incident was may of 2007, at 16,000 miles my turbo charger went bad when I was trailering my horses in vermont, forced to stop at unknown dealership who "cleaned" something so I would make it back to my home. Again on the drive home I lost the turbo. It had to be replaced at the dealership, columbia ford, ct the next day. I was told I had to drive my truck hard and everyday in order to prevent the problem from occurring again. In march 2010 brought my truck to monaco ford, the motor had to be removed due to "all of the gaskets and seals in the motor leaking, as well as the turbo charger being bad again. This occurred at 24,500 miles. The side walls of my tires are peeling, the running board on the drivers side is falling off, and the body side molding is coming off and now at 26,000 miles the air position selector for the climate control system is not working. If I put it in a position for venting or for front and floor I just blows through the defrost vents. Obviously the warranty has passed with the exception of the motor and I have 26,500 miles on this truck.
2005 Ford F-250 transmission complaints
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Tl*the contact owns a 2005 ford f250. The contact observed that there was a transmission fluid leak. The contact is a certified technician and confirmed that the failure was contributed to the transmission snap ring. The vehicle has not been repaired for the malfunction at this time. The VIN was not available. The contact had concerns of the safety risk involved. The failure and current mileages were 42,000.
A snap ring inside the transmission fails allowing the planet to shift forward breaking housing tabs off causing a external leak of transmission fluid to other vehicles driving down the road,no warning a transmission may lock up causing safety concerns, ford has recognized the situation before and sent a internal notice to mechanics to fix the problem, no recall was ever sent. Trucks between 90,000 and 120,000 have this problem, ford said I was first ever complaint, which is a lie, I have found through research early 2004 through 2006 models have this problem of failure without notice. Ford hopes for these to get past warranty so customer has to pay a outrageous sum to fix, so far I have found 40 cases resulting this situation in my area alone and mainly 9/10 are ford f250s. I seen the internal communication but was denied a copy of it. My service advisor at silsbee ford showed me. Also this part is not covered under any extended warranty, and ford denies ever having this problem, the vehicle behind me was showered with transmission fluid almost resulting in a crash because it smeared on her windshield to the point that she could not see. No warning ,so sound, I drove another 20 miles before I noticed a major slip in shifting and discovered a leak. The tranny fluid sprayed all over the exhaust pipe smoking and a stench of burning tranny fluid.
2005 ford f250 diesel truck has for one week and transmission gears welded together. Has been back to dealership almost three weeks and no help nor explanation on what went wrong. If there is a model year problem should be know quyickly as these are used for heavy hauling.
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