buffdaddieyow
LVC Member
Hello everybody, first of all thank you for maintaining such a great resource it has been very helpful. I am a new lincoln owner of a 2005 lincoln LS V8 with 3.9 motor. I have had the clasic problems with a misfiring cylinder, namely cylinder 8 and a real problem with rough idling, very unpredictable power output especially going uphill and betweeen 40-80 km an hour. The gas mileage is also terrible. I took the vehicle in for safety and emissions and my mechanic cleans the fuel injector and tighten my slight broken vacum hose and the problem remained. A few days later I purchased a computer and found that the P308 was the code which is cylinder 8 misfiring so I bought what is considered a good coil, blue streak and had it installed and also replaced vacum hose with dealer item only hose. After that the vehicle worked very good for about two weeks until once again the rough idling and
the check engine light came back, I kept driiving like this until the check engine began to flash on and off for a few minutes every morning until the check engine light would stay on.
So I put the car in the garage, found the extended warranty bulletin on this site and numerous posts about replacing the VGC, possibilities with leaks, bad sparks and oil on boots. According to the extended warrant bulletins M07 and N09 I am covered for coils and ignition plugs for up to 160,000 km or 10 years. So I took it to Ford and had them run a DI, they confirmed indeed that the coil was bad and that was the extent to their DI, advising that I should replace the coil with a Ford coil because thats the only the coil that is reliable,lol. SO I did, however they did not cover the costs for the coil, labour or DI because they said my already replaced coil is an aftermarket coil and as such not covered under the warranty. So I called ford canada, they also said that they dealership has the ability to interept the bulletin and that what they said is correct. So I took fords word for it purchased an 88 dollar coil and had that almost 2 month new blue streak coil replaced. Its been day two with the new Ford coil and nothing has changed, check engine light is still on, idling is terrible, computer continues to say P308 is still misfiring and fuel consumption is terrible.
My question is what to do now, the new ford coild has a a 1 year or 20,000 km warranty, however they will have to take the coil out send it to ford to confirm if it is indeed a bad coil or not and in the mean time I have to purchase another ford coil to operate vechile, which I am not interested in.
Furthermore, I am sure the DI that the Ford mechanics are doing is not much mroe than uplinking their computer and reading the code for verbatum.
What should I do, I really want to be able to enjoy my vehicle, the ford coil has not changed the situation at all not even for a day.
Could be possible that it is the sparks of the vehicle ?
|Has anyone else used the Canadian version of the extended warranty on this vehcile ? where is the best Toronto area ford mechanic to get this job done, is their a soloution that I can do myself and what would be the best way to get my money back for this new ford coil ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I apologize if I did not find the answer to my question earlier in the other forums.
Buff
the check engine light came back, I kept driiving like this until the check engine began to flash on and off for a few minutes every morning until the check engine light would stay on.
So I put the car in the garage, found the extended warranty bulletin on this site and numerous posts about replacing the VGC, possibilities with leaks, bad sparks and oil on boots. According to the extended warrant bulletins M07 and N09 I am covered for coils and ignition plugs for up to 160,000 km or 10 years. So I took it to Ford and had them run a DI, they confirmed indeed that the coil was bad and that was the extent to their DI, advising that I should replace the coil with a Ford coil because thats the only the coil that is reliable,lol. SO I did, however they did not cover the costs for the coil, labour or DI because they said my already replaced coil is an aftermarket coil and as such not covered under the warranty. So I called ford canada, they also said that they dealership has the ability to interept the bulletin and that what they said is correct. So I took fords word for it purchased an 88 dollar coil and had that almost 2 month new blue streak coil replaced. Its been day two with the new Ford coil and nothing has changed, check engine light is still on, idling is terrible, computer continues to say P308 is still misfiring and fuel consumption is terrible.
My question is what to do now, the new ford coild has a a 1 year or 20,000 km warranty, however they will have to take the coil out send it to ford to confirm if it is indeed a bad coil or not and in the mean time I have to purchase another ford coil to operate vechile, which I am not interested in.
Furthermore, I am sure the DI that the Ford mechanics are doing is not much mroe than uplinking their computer and reading the code for verbatum.
What should I do, I really want to be able to enjoy my vehicle, the ford coil has not changed the situation at all not even for a day.
Could be possible that it is the sparks of the vehicle ?
|Has anyone else used the Canadian version of the extended warranty on this vehcile ? where is the best Toronto area ford mechanic to get this job done, is their a soloution that I can do myself and what would be the best way to get my money back for this new ford coil ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I apologize if I did not find the answer to my question earlier in the other forums.
Buff
