1999 Ford F-150 Engine Problems

“Around 1:30am on thursday nov. 24th, I received a call from my neighbor saying my truck was on fire. The fire department said it looked like it was an electrical problem. That it looked like it started under the hood. The truck had been driven to the store the morning before the fire, and was parked at the time of the fire.”

“I was cruising along the highway at approx. 68 MPH, then I heard a loud pop. Then immediately after sounded like I was driving without an exhaust manifold almost. Once I felt that I had lost a lot of power I then realized what happened. I was luckily 2 miles away from a town and babied it into a store parking lot. Upon looking under the hood I found the sparkplug ejected from cylinder #3 and busted the ignition coil. Now what if I was int the middle of nowhere with my wife and daughter? Worse yet what if the vehicle had caught on fire with them as well? …”

“This is the third time the engine has blown out a plug. I do not know the dates of the other two times, my mechanic can probably look them up. This is obviously a huge problem that many people have. I have paid about $1200 to have the three blown spark plugs fixed. Since this is an inherent problem with Ford engines I feel they should reimburse all costumers, this should not be happening. I am just waiting for the next one to go, when I hear the familiar sound, call my mechanic and lose a few more hundred dollars. Come on Ford, do the right thing!”

“While driving at 70 MPH the vehicle started to lightly tick then I pulled over to the side of the road and the motor began to loudly knock I took it to my mechanic and he told me this was a common problem that Ford has had with these motors with thousand accounts were this has happened and Ford has neglected to take care of there loyal customers I am a 20 yr old college student and I can barely afford the home I live in right now I bought this truck in the good faith that Ford had honored the picture they had set for this truck that it was a reliable running vehicle but as I have found out…”

“Traveling at highway speed,the spark plug was blown from the head . The engine spewed fuel out of the hole and I thought a fire might occur at any second. Many people have had this exact problem with this engine and many more will. This occurs because the head is aluminum and the spark plugs are steel and only thread in to 3 or 4 threads. Terrible design flaw.”