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Originally Posted by MortgageGuru
I had and have been having the same problems - in the morning, regardless of the outside temp, winter or summer, I have a cold start problem. This past June I took the truck to the local FD and they diagnosed with a bad FICM. This actually worked and fixed the problem on the blue/white smoke - for a while. I still have the cold start problem where it will crank and crank and...crank then fire up. If I don't let it warm up for 3-5 minutes before leaving the driveway it'll blow that blue/white smoke until it is completely warm. I took it back to the dealer, they kept the truck overnight and told me they couldn't find anything wrong. They actually told me that they had too many man hours into diagosing the problem... I thought that was what I was paying for (even though it's under warranty). The cold start issue is really gettin on my nearves. Since I still have two years left on the warranty I guess I'll let the damn thing blow up and have them replace my motor.
2006 F350 Lariat Crew Cab, 64,000 Miles
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I say find a new damn dealer....what a crock of horse hockey...too many hours into diagnosing the problem...who do these dealerships think they are? I always hear the complaint from service managers that the service department doesn't get paid what it should, when a warranty repair comes in...what I read into that is that they get paid what the Warranty folks say the repair manual says the job should take, and not however many hours they spend on it. That would motivate me to fix it right the first time, so it wouldn't keep coming back. It's one of the reasons I stopped going to a Ford dealer and started going to an independant mech....my truck was spending weeks at a time sitting in the dealer's lot, because they had too many other trucks with recurring problems too.
Sorry, I just get hot under the collar, when I keep hearing these stories.
