KyngofPop
Freday-day
I'll leave that up for debate. Got my current SHO back in April from it's original owner who'd had it serviced RELIGIOUSLY by the same ford dealer it's entire life according to the gaggle of service records he gave me upon purchase. I personally don't REALLY drive that hard but do when the feeling comes upon me.
There had always been a slight flat spot upon acceleration when coming from a standstill but I had attributed that to it having 245k miles and was just old. Lately I'd been driving a little more spirited than normal and been noticing a slight misfire/pop under acceleration at freeway speeds or when in high gear and heard a slight electrical noise kinda like a buzzing from a a short circuit?! I figured one of the wires had a break in it and decided to replace 'em. When I installed the wires I routed them EXACTLY as they were when I took them off and still had the same backfire/pop?!?!
I replaced the coil with 2 known good ones, 2 DIS modules, 2 TPS sensors and the same thing?!?! Well I did the proper veteran thing to do and came to the forum and did a search with the words firing order and lo and behold that was the friggin problem. The tech who did the recent 60K had the #4 and #6wires crossed. (i think that was it, can't remember my brain is tired from removing intake so many times)
The reason why I titled the thread as such is because this dude payed out the ASS to have Ford keep this thing in tip-top shape but how could they miss such a small thing. I went thru the paper work and the P/O paid $764 for a Crankshaft sensor, IAC valve, and cleaned throttle body due to paperworks notes of "runs rough, backfiring, Idle rough and stalls out.
The next service is roughly 6 thousand miles later where the guy complained of "skipping on take-off, slow to warm up" and some how there was a broken valve cover bolt in there drill out notated on the invoice hmmm. They did a FULL upper 60K to the tune of $1200 minus his .77 cent senior citizen discount.
NEXT service roughly 15K later "customer complains of backfire, stalling and Check engine light is on. Advises when light is on car runs rough and is hard to start". This time the 60k is done along with another crankshaft sensor to the tune of $1450
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If memory serves me right there's other receipts for 2 more DIS sensors(1 under Fords Goodwill warranty program), another crank sensor and various other sensors this guy was paying top dollar for. How could they miss something as simple as the plug wire routing? I mean it's labeled on the coil pack itself?? Do the service books have it wrong or something? I can say now though that the thing runs like a scalded KAT! Preciate the forum being here because if I had to pay what this guy were paying the car would've been crushed or running wrong it's entire life. What amazes me is that he KEPT taking it to the same dealer and the SAME guy worked on the car each time. Coincidentally the P/O's name was Frederick, my names Frederick and the service guys name was Frederick too....is that an omen?
Sorry for the novel but thanks for the help SHOforum and the search feature is a GODSEND, use it Newbies.
There had always been a slight flat spot upon acceleration when coming from a standstill but I had attributed that to it having 245k miles and was just old. Lately I'd been driving a little more spirited than normal and been noticing a slight misfire/pop under acceleration at freeway speeds or when in high gear and heard a slight electrical noise kinda like a buzzing from a a short circuit?! I figured one of the wires had a break in it and decided to replace 'em. When I installed the wires I routed them EXACTLY as they were when I took them off and still had the same backfire/pop?!?!
I replaced the coil with 2 known good ones, 2 DIS modules, 2 TPS sensors and the same thing?!?! Well I did the proper veteran thing to do and came to the forum and did a search with the words firing order and lo and behold that was the friggin problem. The tech who did the recent 60K had the #4 and #6wires crossed. (i think that was it, can't remember my brain is tired from removing intake so many times)
The reason why I titled the thread as such is because this dude payed out the ASS to have Ford keep this thing in tip-top shape but how could they miss such a small thing. I went thru the paper work and the P/O paid $764 for a Crankshaft sensor, IAC valve, and cleaned throttle body due to paperworks notes of "runs rough, backfiring, Idle rough and stalls out.
The next service is roughly 6 thousand miles later where the guy complained of "skipping on take-off, slow to warm up" and some how there was a broken valve cover bolt in there drill out notated on the invoice hmmm. They did a FULL upper 60K to the tune of $1200 minus his .77 cent senior citizen discount.
NEXT service roughly 15K later "customer complains of backfire, stalling and Check engine light is on. Advises when light is on car runs rough and is hard to start". This time the 60k is done along with another crankshaft sensor to the tune of $1450
! .If memory serves me right there's other receipts for 2 more DIS sensors(1 under Fords Goodwill warranty program), another crank sensor and various other sensors this guy was paying top dollar for. How could they miss something as simple as the plug wire routing? I mean it's labeled on the coil pack itself?? Do the service books have it wrong or something? I can say now though that the thing runs like a scalded KAT! Preciate the forum being here because if I had to pay what this guy were paying the car would've been crushed or running wrong it's entire life. What amazes me is that he KEPT taking it to the same dealer and the SAME guy worked on the car each time. Coincidentally the P/O's name was Frederick, my names Frederick and the service guys name was Frederick too....is that an omen?
Sorry for the novel but thanks for the help SHOforum and the search feature is a GODSEND, use it Newbies.
