I must say that overall I like my ranger. Quite a bit actually.. but there have been several quality issues.

The truck now has 50k on it. And last winter in the snow I noticed a few drops of antifreeze. I saw the leak path was from the water pump.
So I figured as long as it wasn't puddling or loosing too much coolant I'd let it go. Well I was changing fluids yesterday and now it's leaking more. The front of the engine is damp and I have yellow/green drops hanging everywhere.

IMO.. a newer car w/less than 50k miles on it should not have water pumps, brakes, IAC, go out.. and fluids that are black.

Just a bit of a rant I reckon.. Looks like I'll be changing the water pump next weekend on a ford I bought new... 26 months ago.

 

no warranty?

 

my 2004 4.0 did the same at about the same mileage (coming out the weep hole).

 

And people wonder why I want to sell my truck.

 

Bought a new airtex pump tonight. It'll go in this weekend.

Oh and another failure I forgot to mention. One that left me on the side of the road in -3F weather at mid-night too! Can't believe I forgot this one.. the clamps on the tranny cooler broke in 1/2.

I had picked up a friend at the airport for the 2009 NAIAS. We were about 4 miles from the house running 70mph on the freeway.. and all of a sudden I had no forward power. Nothing at all. Pull over, get out, and there is tranny fluid everywhere! Yeah.. that was fun. I'd have thrown it up as a fluke.. except when I got it home I found that one of the other clamps had broke too. That right there is a factory defect. Thanks papa ford.

Rich

 

I'm beyond warranties. Even if it was still under.. I'd do it myself just to save the heartache and time off work.

Rich

 

Just a heads up go ahead and change the thermostat while you got it all apart. I had to take it all back apart because as soon as i started the motor the tstat stuck closed. Just did mine last weekend at 109,000.

 

luck of the draw maybe? 110k miles here and have not changed out anything but filters, belts, and spark plugs. mine has been through crap and back more than once.

 

^ I am with Zach. My truck has almost all of the original parts on it except for the normal things to change. I change out the original water pump over christmas break. Nothing wrong with the one just I was in there changing the original timing belt and decided to change the water pump to. I have 133,000. Just crappy luck I guess man. Sorry.

 

My waterpump started leaking at 57000km, roughly the same mileage

 

guess its the newer trucks w/that problem. Just had mine changed at almost 116,000 and it wasnt leaking, just hanging

 

yea id have to agree no issues here