Hey everybody, new to this forum. Was referred by one of your members. My father currently has an '01 LS V8, about 75K, Sport Pkg, chrome wheels, bought it over the summer. We love the car but within a month, we began having problems.
Just wondering for those of you that do not service your vehicle yourself, where do you get your major service/issues fixed? I'm in SoCal and was trying to see if people usually went to the dealer or had a specialist or something because our current mechanic doesn't have much experience with these cars.
I'll just let you know of the situation.. we bought the car and after a month, got kind of suckered into a tranny rebuild. Then around sometime in September or October, the car started having a really rough idle and we got a CEL and misfire in cylinder #4. First took to our mechanic, we mentioned changing coils, and he kept refuting that it was the coils. Took it to the Ford dealer, and they also said they didn't think it was coils. They thought it was one of the injectors, but said it didn't fix the problem. They then had no where to go from there, and called Ford engineers hotline for help. The dealer was told to change the cat converter which was covered under warranty, but didn't solve the problem. They then wanted to do a leak down test on the cylinders. We backed off at that point and took it back to our mechanic. Hes slowly working on it, but I think hes having trouble since he has no experience. Anybody think it could be PCM..? Or is it something mechanical? Apparently our mechanic remachined the heads, redid the valve seals and possibly some work on the valve stems. Major stuff.
If we can't find a specialist or keep running into problems, we're going to have to end up giving it away, which is sad because I really love that car.
I know that was really long and in-depth, but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Simply put, I'm trying to either find a specialist or if anybody knows of a good dealer, or even if someone in SoCal is willing to help us out with this whole situation. Thanx in advance guys.
Just wondering for those of you that do not service your vehicle yourself, where do you get your major service/issues fixed? I'm in SoCal and was trying to see if people usually went to the dealer or had a specialist or something because our current mechanic doesn't have much experience with these cars.
I'll just let you know of the situation.. we bought the car and after a month, got kind of suckered into a tranny rebuild. Then around sometime in September or October, the car started having a really rough idle and we got a CEL and misfire in cylinder #4. First took to our mechanic, we mentioned changing coils, and he kept refuting that it was the coils. Took it to the Ford dealer, and they also said they didn't think it was coils. They thought it was one of the injectors, but said it didn't fix the problem. They then had no where to go from there, and called Ford engineers hotline for help. The dealer was told to change the cat converter which was covered under warranty, but didn't solve the problem. They then wanted to do a leak down test on the cylinders. We backed off at that point and took it back to our mechanic. Hes slowly working on it, but I think hes having trouble since he has no experience. Anybody think it could be PCM..? Or is it something mechanical? Apparently our mechanic remachined the heads, redid the valve seals and possibly some work on the valve stems. Major stuff.
If we can't find a specialist or keep running into problems, we're going to have to end up giving it away, which is sad because I really love that car.
I know that was really long and in-depth, but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Simply put, I'm trying to either find a specialist or if anybody knows of a good dealer, or even if someone in SoCal is willing to help us out with this whole situation. Thanx in advance guys.
