Up until yesterday I was starting to get worried about my warranty on my truck. I am just under 100,000km's and my tranny was starting to slip a few weeks back under boosted runs when i hit second gear. I called the dealership to find out if this was common and he said no, bring it in before you hit the 100,000km mark. If we look at it now and it gives you problems down the road at least it will be on file that this occured before warranty was up.
I did some research and found that the slipping tranny at second gear was a common occurance and was related to the transmission levels being low. Quite often 3/4-1 litre. Well I checked my tranny level and sure enough it was down and I added 3/4 of a litre. I belive the slipping to be gone, but I only could get it to slip with my superchips programmer installed as stock, the truck didn't seem to make enough power.
In addition, I recently noticed my rear pinion seal is leaking and my front axle seal it coming apart...so I am sitting there going Is any of this covered? I phone the dealership to inquire about it and they said the axle and pinion seals should be covered under the powertrain.
Anyways, I have been sitting here deciding what to do. If I take them in and the seals are done and not covered then it a lot of change out of my pocket for work that I could have done easily myself. The truck is 1 year old, my first vehicle with warranty and its already run out of bumper to bumper and was just about to run out of transmission warranty. I was starting to get depressed.
So I started looking at my manual that came with the truck, I had read if front to back before and knew that the diesel motor was covered under 160,000km warranty...but was under the impression that the transmission and axles only had 100,000km warranty and as the dealership stated, only some axle components are covered.
Well, unless I have misinterpreted what they have written in the manual. All F-series trucks with the 6.4 has unique powertrain warranty covering axles, transmission and engine up to 160,000km's and they go into detail to describe what all is included under the warranty.
So am I the only person that thought powertrain warranty was up after 100,000km's with the exception of the motor or are there others out there that also was fed this by the dealership?
Does anyone else take what is written in the manual to mean anything different and if this is the case then what did the optional extended warranty cover the vehicle up to?
I did some research and found that the slipping tranny at second gear was a common occurance and was related to the transmission levels being low. Quite often 3/4-1 litre. Well I checked my tranny level and sure enough it was down and I added 3/4 of a litre. I belive the slipping to be gone, but I only could get it to slip with my superchips programmer installed as stock, the truck didn't seem to make enough power.
In addition, I recently noticed my rear pinion seal is leaking and my front axle seal it coming apart...so I am sitting there going Is any of this covered? I phone the dealership to inquire about it and they said the axle and pinion seals should be covered under the powertrain.
Anyways, I have been sitting here deciding what to do. If I take them in and the seals are done and not covered then it a lot of change out of my pocket for work that I could have done easily myself. The truck is 1 year old, my first vehicle with warranty and its already run out of bumper to bumper and was just about to run out of transmission warranty. I was starting to get depressed.
So I started looking at my manual that came with the truck, I had read if front to back before and knew that the diesel motor was covered under 160,000km warranty...but was under the impression that the transmission and axles only had 100,000km warranty and as the dealership stated, only some axle components are covered.
Well, unless I have misinterpreted what they have written in the manual. All F-series trucks with the 6.4 has unique powertrain warranty covering axles, transmission and engine up to 160,000km's and they go into detail to describe what all is included under the warranty.
So am I the only person that thought powertrain warranty was up after 100,000km's with the exception of the motor or are there others out there that also was fed this by the dealership?
Does anyone else take what is written in the manual to mean anything different and if this is the case then what did the optional extended warranty cover the vehicle up to?