Yeeee Haw!! I've got problems...
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Flexpedition
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Keep the shop honest with a 2nd or 3rd opinion. Thats a lot of replacement with the given mileage.
They're being honest.
I live on a bad dirt road, have 3/2 spacers and drive 80+ miles 6 days a week. Plus our roads are garbage in Massachusetts
Luckily I purchased the extended warranty when I bought the car last year. They should pay for most of it.
Icemanjones
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What year is yours? My 07 doesnt have a "rear upper control arm" it has like 4 little ones plus the rear lower control arm. Its like a spider holding that shit on.
'14. The mechanic wasn't sure what they were. I work at the shop and I had to call the dealership to see what some of the parts are. Ended up being rear links and rear ball joints, but you can't order rear ball joints. I have to order the arm assemblies.
JExpedition07
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The CV axles on these don’t typically go bad if ever....if they are paying for it ok. If not I’d have a second opinion. Another thing, the control arms typically don’t go bad on these trucks either....they last 200-300,000 miles. Sounds like a lot of parts that don’t need replacing.
There's a dirt road on Cape Cod?
Yup. A lot actually. Not as many as there once was, but there's still a lot. I live a half mile out on a dirt road. Hell, I didnt get street numbers until the 90s and we don't have rural mail delivery. I couldn't get cable until the early 00's. Also, my only source of heat is a coal stove and fire place.
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Icemanjones
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Based on your situation I think replacing it all is a good idea. You are running "long, hard and wet" as they say on something that wasnt designed to do it 24/7. Also if it is covered under warranty make damn sure they dont use economy replacements or you'll be back soon. Last there is no shame in switching to a front lift 1 1/2 only to level it. Im working with a company on making a 2/1 lift myself, partly for carport height, partly long life.
I'm guessing my next vehicle in 4 years should probably be a 350. Too bad they don't make the excursion anymore. Expy is perfect for the kids, great danes and running parts, etc
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Icemanjones
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Cant go wrong with a 350. It'd be cool if they made an option like a 4.5' bed so it would be like the length of an excursion.
RogerD1959
2.5 Months Ltr, and Final Bill 22K+
The Excursion is coming back in 2020! Mid year! And in all the trim levels from blah, blah, basic, to l'ah tee da! Rumors say it starts on the F-250 platform, but if you want to tow your 14X70 mobile home, the F-350 is also supposed to be offered! (its been whispered, the F-450 is in the mix, dunno about that.) With the Diesel option available on both the F-250 or F-350! To be sure, a gussied up Diesel version, will certainly outpace most any kind of house on wheels you hitch it up to, at least 2 to 10 times over! $110,000.00+, it can be ordered with seating for 9, and enough room in the back, back, behind the back, back seat for 3! For 2 lazy **** hounds to lounge, or a Mastiff, with a Paris Hilton purse puppy friend! OMG, gotta catch my breath! Did I say its been whispered, the F-450 is in the mix, dunno about that, but it fits with Ford's Goldie Locks sales model. If the F-450 based Excursion is really going to be out there in 2020. It's got to be! It will be the first time a vehicle manufacturer anywhere built something that would make a hog calling, hill hoping, hillbilly, so happy! They would pee, poop their pants, and pass out over it! My Gawad! makes my knees knock, and all the hair on my back stand up! What's AWESOME!
FINALLY! Something I could put momma, the baby, our 4 pint sized pressure cookers, Buck, Ben, Jane, Bess-E-may, BREATHE, AND, Daddy, Daddies Momma, Great Grandpa Bow-re-guard, my two Blue Ticks, Harry, n Hanna. Hitch it up to the house, run mommas 14 felines, the 16 critters the kids got up in it, lock the door! AND THANKS TO WHAT FORD HAS DONE! With that itty, bitty, tinny, tiny, wee, wabbit, EcoBoost engine over all these years! I know my Kentucky kin folk will see to it the Diesel Engine they stick in it's gonna have way more n enough Giddy Up Go, I could hook my horse hauler up to the back of the house, with all 7 of mine n mommas Clydesdales up in it! Run us all up out of Wisconsin's Winter! Down south somewhere its warm fore Winter next year! Shore-E- Nuff! Don't cha know!
It really is coming! Wrecked 4 TiVo's since summer started this year! 4 weeks ago we finally caught, seen it for sure, clear as day! The 9/16th's of a second Ford lets a Platinum Pearl White one flash on the TV screen! Ford's evil slick about it too! You SEE the Platinum Pearl White Expy Max! Ford give it a far amount of eye time! As your gaze moves around to see all them other 2020 whatzit's they got running run-in-down that wide road! Just as you look away from that Expy Max, in the back just off to the right, ya aint even got nuff time to get the first two letters of any word out cha mouth, ITS HUGE AND GONE! BAM! It's there and it, idnt! We know it is, tore up 4 of them TiVo's till we all saw it for sure that blip! Left all 10 of us, bug eyed, jaw dropped, n drooling fore bout an hour! TiVo's stuck on pause so long, had to snatch it out the wall, sail it out the front door smoking bout to start the trailer on fire! Momma said, Know, that's messed with my head so long! Like when a mouse farts at midnight honey! Don't see it, don't here it, your head must smell it cause it knows some tin happened, but your just too tired to figure it out. And ya wake up in the morning, and your heads stuck on it all day! Something happened, but it didn't, but it did!
FINALLY! Something I could put momma, the baby, our 4 pint sized pressure cookers, Buck, Ben, Jane, Bess-E-may, BREATHE, AND, Daddy, Daddies Momma, Great Grandpa Bow-re-guard, my two Blue Ticks, Harry, n Hanna. Hitch it up to the house, run mommas 14 felines, the 16 critters the kids got up in it, lock the door! AND THANKS TO WHAT FORD HAS DONE! With that itty, bitty, tinny, tiny, wee, wabbit, EcoBoost engine over all these years! I know my Kentucky kin folk will see to it the Diesel Engine they stick in it's gonna have way more n enough Giddy Up Go, I could hook my horse hauler up to the back of the house, with all 7 of mine n mommas Clydesdales up in it! Run us all up out of Wisconsin's Winter! Down south somewhere its warm fore Winter next year! Shore-E- Nuff! Don't cha know!
It really is coming! Wrecked 4 TiVo's since summer started this year! 4 weeks ago we finally caught, seen it for sure, clear as day! The 9/16th's of a second Ford lets a Platinum Pearl White one flash on the TV screen! Ford's evil slick about it too! You SEE the Platinum Pearl White Expy Max! Ford give it a far amount of eye time! As your gaze moves around to see all them other 2020 whatzit's they got running run-in-down that wide road! Just as you look away from that Expy Max, in the back just off to the right, ya aint even got nuff time to get the first two letters of any word out cha mouth, ITS HUGE AND GONE! BAM! It's there and it, idnt! We know it is, tore up 4 of them TiVo's till we all saw it for sure that blip! Left all 10 of us, bug eyed, jaw dropped, n drooling fore bout an hour! TiVo's stuck on pause so long, had to snatch it out the wall, sail it out the front door smoking bout to start the trailer on fire! Momma said, Know, that's messed with my head so long! Like when a mouse farts at midnight honey! Don't see it, don't here it, your head must smell it cause it knows some tin happened, but your just too tired to figure it out. And ya wake up in the morning, and your heads stuck on it all day! Something happened, but it didn't, but it did!
Icemanjones
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Can someone do a welfare check on Roger? Lol
NEED is a relative word.
You never need all four inner and outer tie rod ends. Not all 4 will have play in them.
Same with upper and lower ball joints but shops are indoctrinated to do all at once or at least both uppers or both lowers.
Getting it safe is one thing. Not needing any repairs in 2 years is another...but need .....NOt quite.
You never need all four inner and outer tie rod ends. Not all 4 will have play in them.
Same with upper and lower ball joints but shops are indoctrinated to do all at once or at least both uppers or both lowers.
Getting it safe is one thing. Not needing any repairs in 2 years is another...but need .....NOt quite.
3/2 isn't going to make a bit of difference to your suspension components.
Before I moved last year, I lived on a dirt road for the past four years. No real suspension problems in 215k miles.
By the way, what's this "cable" thing you're talking about that you had installed in the 00s? Not available where I live lol My current commute is 130 miles one way... My 17 Expy just grins and eats it up.
Haha it's called an antenna.
Maybe I'm just lucky? I drive like a little old lady. I occasionally get people blasting the horn because I drive 5mph on my dirt road and don't peel out when a light turns green. Our roads are junk and I'm always dodging potholes, man covers and drains. I figure one of these days the cops are going to pull me over and do a drunk test.
Frank Wilson
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Im about 5 minutes drive to the Sagamore Bridge
. I have the the 3/2 lift for three years now. I have to replace front dif seals, but i dont think thats related to the liftSimilar threads
