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<blockquote data-quote="patooyee" data-source="post: 583040" data-attributes="member: 483"><p>I left Ford before everyone seemed to figure them out. But I also think that a lot of issues stemmed from technician ignorance. There was so much new **** on those engines compared to the 7.3's. A lot of it had my technicians scratching their heads. I started working for Ford right as the 6.0's came out and left right as they were being replaced. I would not say that we had them at all figured out by the time I left. I often felt like, once a technician laid hands on a 6.0, it would never be the same again, truck ruined. Of course, technicians never make mistakes, so if the truck continues coming back for problems it's Ford's fault. We "warranteed" lots of parts on perfectly good trucks just to replace waranteed parts on customer trucks that the techs didn't put on right and ruined in the process, or that they replaced once without fixing the root cause and got ruined again. I owned one of the rare problem-free 6.0's until about 70,000 miles. Never turned a wrench on it. But if you look up the paperwork on that truck just about every engine component had been replaced under warranty, turbo, heads, EGR, etc. It became a joke within the department about how everyone knew my VIN number for when they needed to fix a mistake on another truck. There were other trucks on our lot that had parts replaced on paper before they were ever even test-drove. It was just a ****ing warranty free-for-all trying to avoid paying for parts while they learned about the engines.</p><p></p><p>I think even Ford was learning about them, too. They would put out TSB's one day that would get revised the next and then superseded a week later. A tech would read a TSB, perform the repair, and the truck would be back a week later with the same problem. He would perform the TSB again not realizing that it had totally changed in that week. We would replace the part 3 or 5 times before someone would happen across the superseded or new TSB by chance. Most of the techs only knew how to use the computers to watch porn. They were riddled with viruses as a result. It took the computers an hour to boot up and they were so slow once they were started they were basically not useable. Asking a tech stay up to date on all the TSB's under those conditions was asking too much, IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="patooyee, post: 583040, member: 483"] I left Ford before everyone seemed to figure them out. But I also think that a lot of issues stemmed from technician ignorance. There was so much new **** on those engines compared to the 7.3's. A lot of it had my technicians scratching their heads. I started working for Ford right as the 6.0's came out and left right as they were being replaced. I would not say that we had them at all figured out by the time I left. I often felt like, once a technician laid hands on a 6.0, it would never be the same again, truck ruined. Of course, technicians never make mistakes, so if the truck continues coming back for problems it's Ford's fault. We "warranteed" lots of parts on perfectly good trucks just to replace waranteed parts on customer trucks that the techs didn't put on right and ruined in the process, or that they replaced once without fixing the root cause and got ruined again. I owned one of the rare problem-free 6.0's until about 70,000 miles. Never turned a wrench on it. But if you look up the paperwork on that truck just about every engine component had been replaced under warranty, turbo, heads, EGR, etc. It became a joke within the department about how everyone knew my VIN number for when they needed to fix a mistake on another truck. There were other trucks on our lot that had parts replaced on paper before they were ever even test-drove. It was just a ****ing warranty free-for-all trying to avoid paying for parts while they learned about the engines. I think even Ford was learning about them, too. They would put out TSB's one day that would get revised the next and then superseded a week later. A tech would read a TSB, perform the repair, and the truck would be back a week later with the same problem. He would perform the TSB again not realizing that it had totally changed in that week. We would replace the part 3 or 5 times before someone would happen across the superseded or new TSB by chance. Most of the techs only knew how to use the computers to watch porn. They were riddled with viruses as a result. It took the computers an hour to boot up and they were so slow once they were started they were basically not useable. Asking a tech stay up to date on all the TSB's under those conditions was asking too much, IMO. [/QUOTE]
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