glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
- Location
- Pleasant Grove
This is a little venting and a little asking for advice.
My oldest son recently bought a 2015 F350 with a 6.7. His best friend was a senior diesel tech for Ford for 5 years. He looked the truck over before my son bought it and said it all looked good except it had a leaking oil pan. Apparently it's a bitch to fix the oil pan leak, you have to pull the trans. Ford books it at 16 hours and he said it takes every bit of that 16 hours even if you are good at them. His friend no longer works for a Ford dealer and said take it to one so you get a warranty if it leaks. So my son took it to Tim Dahle Ford in Spanish Fork. They quoted him $3200, then charged him $3800 and had it done in a day. When he picked it up, it had oil dripping off everything, there are numerous bolts that would need to be removed to get the pan out that had old grease on them and obviously weren't touched. He asked them about the mess and they offered him a free car wash. He cleaned up the mess and has driven it for a couple days, it's still leaking and he found one of the bell housing bolts not threaded in at all.
He took it back this morning. They tightened the bellhousing bolt and basically told him to piss off. I have almost zero experience with this type of thing because I do everything myself because of a couple of experiences like this where I got screwed. So what is the best course of action per the RME hive mind? Call a lawyer? Call Ford Corporate? Here are some pics of the shoddy work.
My oldest son recently bought a 2015 F350 with a 6.7. His best friend was a senior diesel tech for Ford for 5 years. He looked the truck over before my son bought it and said it all looked good except it had a leaking oil pan. Apparently it's a bitch to fix the oil pan leak, you have to pull the trans. Ford books it at 16 hours and he said it takes every bit of that 16 hours even if you are good at them. His friend no longer works for a Ford dealer and said take it to one so you get a warranty if it leaks. So my son took it to Tim Dahle Ford in Spanish Fork. They quoted him $3200, then charged him $3800 and had it done in a day. When he picked it up, it had oil dripping off everything, there are numerous bolts that would need to be removed to get the pan out that had old grease on them and obviously weren't touched. He asked them about the mess and they offered him a free car wash. He cleaned up the mess and has driven it for a couple days, it's still leaking and he found one of the bell housing bolts not threaded in at all.
He took it back this morning. They tightened the bellhousing bolt and basically told him to piss off. I have almost zero experience with this type of thing because I do everything myself because of a couple of experiences like this where I got screwed. So what is the best course of action per the RME hive mind? Call a lawyer? Call Ford Corporate? Here are some pics of the shoddy work.