I wanna add a BIG second on the Apple Ford opinon.
- Salesman points to the GT-40 intake on the 351 and says "*AND THATS THE BLOWER!*" - I couldn't even dignify him with a comment, just a raised eyebrow...
After first scheduled (and only) service. Entire engine compartment coated with coolant and dust. Thin black plastic line running from injector housing now routed over the intake resulting in a bend and bad kink in the line. Truck not holding idle.
CL complains most loudly. "Leave here overnight Mr. L, and everything will be fixed by 10am."
[ Thats great, they've already had my truck for a full working day and now they want another day? For a regularly scheduled visit?]
When I returned the next afternoon my truck wasn't waiting for me out front as on the day before. No, as a matter of fact, the servicewriter wasn't quite sure where my truck was..."Didn't you pick it up yesterday?"
I took a deep breath and said, "9 - 1 - 1."
"Wait! I call in back and see if anybody knows where it is!"
A couple of minutes later a highschool geek strolls up and hands me my key, my truck is out back...way the f... out back...about a half mile out back. In a dirt parking lot. All alone and surrounded by deep burnout marks in the ground. Coated with dirt, mud, and dust from one end to the other. And my almost new back tires are now almost old.
She started up great, dropped idle at just the right time. So I slowly rolled my mudpuppy around to the front door...and left a 60ft burnouts worth of tire smoke across the front of the main building. She was clean when I dropped her off 40 hours ago...
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Later I realized I coulda gotten much better by kicking it up the line. Much later they were practically begging to do the 100,000 mile service on it...I just laughed and hung up on them.
After all the "Extended Warrenty" was done with before I'd had it a year. 134,000 miles and still sneakin...
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YEAH, I'M BACK,
CL