Expensive or time consuming preventative items are always a tough call. Guess you just have to go with your best instincts. Enjoy your retirement!!
Agreed. On these I think if you were RELIGIOUS about checking the oil at least once a week and probably every Sunday and Wednesday if a daily driver to look for a milkshake, you'd be alright.Expensive or time consuming preventative items are always a tough call. Guess you just have to go with your best instincts. Enjoy your retirement!!
If you can replace a timing belt driven water pump, you can replace this water pump. Now if you ran it too long with milkshake or it has high mileage and you need to replace the all the timing components as well, I could see that being viewed as more difficult as well as expensive just for the parts.
The camshaft holding tool set is $28 on Amazon. You probably already have the rest of the tools.
One of the vehicles I maintain in a 2011 Edge with the 3.5L engine and it has this setup. It's rarely driven (just hit 50K miles), garage kept and on a battery tender with the hood open most of the time. If the coolant level drops, I'm going to notice it pretty quickly.
And when things go wrong due to defective parts, you get to pay for the labor twice. Excellent idea.And I would furnish the parts, so that would save me some money.
And when things go wrong due to defective parts, you get to pay for the labor twice. Excellent idea.
I can't recall but most of the timing stuff has to come off to remove the water pump. The timing set isn't particularly expensive.If you can replace a timing belt driven water pump, you can replace this water pump. Now if you ran it too long with milkshake or it has high mileage and you need to replace the all the timing components as well, I could see that being viewed as more difficult as well as expensive just for the parts.
The camshaft holding tool set is $28 on Amazon. You probably already have the rest of the tools.
One of the vehicles I maintain in a 2011 Edge with the 3.5L engine and it has this setup. It's rarely driven (just hit 50K miles), garage kept and on a battery tender with the hood open most of the time. If the coolant level drops, I'm going to notice it pretty quickly.
And when things go wrong due to defective parts, you get to pay for the labor twice. Excellent idea.
Depends on the item. But ever since COVID, parts quality has pretty much tanked. I’d be very skeptical of providing my own parts and assuming the risk on a large job like this one.Are you the sort of person who answers "yes" when the clerk at Best Buy asks if you want to pay for the extended warranty?
For OTC repairs at an IRF (Independent Repair Facility) Ford will pay up to $150 labor. Engines and transmission are different.Yeah I guess Motorcraft wouldn't honor a non-licensed shop warranty.
Thank you..For OTC repairs at an IRF (Independent Repair Facility) Ford will pay up to $150 labor. Engines and transmission are different.
If a dealer does the initial work, the repair is completely covered at any dealer. Good luck getting a shop to redo the job for $150 that didn't do the initial job. That is less than an hour of shop time at almost every local shop.@bdcardinal
Is that warranty Nationwide or only at the repair shop you had to work done?
Thank you!!If a dealer does the initial work, the repair is completely covered at any dealer. Good luck getting a shop to redo the job for $150 that didn't do the initial job. That is less than an hour of shop time at almost every local shop.
Soooo.....ya don't really want an experienced shop to be reliant on YT but there's a 4-part series from a guy John Can Fix Anything that was incredibly helpful for me. And he didn't have a lift, he appeared to just be a guy in his home garage (although I stand by my personal insistence on a lift).Unfortunately there isn't an auto repair shop owner who frequents this site from around my area and that is familiar with this repair.