2012 5.0

About time you coughed up the story. Sucks! But at least they took care of you.

[Vertnut]

Damn! I'm glad it worked out for you. Makes me wonder how many modified 5.0's took a shit and the owner ate it because they had mods? Hell, if your's did it totally stock, it makes you wonder.

[cobrajet69]

Wow. Didn't hear about that Danny. Glad Skip @ crew took care of you though....
Now, if I could just convince them to warrant a clutch for my "black bitch" all would be fantastic !


David

[46Tbird]

Well as of today I've had the car for one year and one day, and 23700 miles.







... and two engines.

Apparently the #8 piston was installed with a sledgehammer, which dented the top of the piston, shattered the lands, and broke the compression and oil rings in about a dozen places. That big missing chunk of piston land was gone for quite a while, hence the carbon buildup in there.

As bad as it looks, the car actually ran pretty well except for a little vibration at idle and a check engine light.

Ford completely stood by their product and put a new 2013 service replacement engine in the car. Grapevine Ford did a great job and I am happy as a pig in shit to have it back!

Thank GOD I never modified the car. The first questions from everyone at Ford were "Do you have an intake" and "Have you done a tune". Not that it would have automatically voided the warrantly, but it probably wouldn't have been painless either. As it worked out, it went right through the process and I got the new '13 coated pistons.

[Steve]

LOL, wow. I never noticed those were OEM before.

[Doug Hatton]

Yeah, I was 50/50 on it... I like the CS stuff on my black car, but I think on the white, your stock grill looks pretty good.

Car looks good Duggles. But I just put the stock grille back in mine.

[Doug Hatton]

Those fogs ARE OEM on the CS...

That's cool. I really like the look of the grill you posted and the lower valance, but those tiny little foglights look a little odd to me. They don't look clean enough like OEM like they belong there. I'm not sure how to explain what I mean by it other than they just look out of place.

[46Tbird]

Car looks good Duggles. But I just put the stock grille back in mine.

[Steve]

I definitely like he stance and wheel choice on Danny's more. I just wanted to show him the grill/valance.

That's cool. I really like the look of the grill you posted and the lower valance, but those tiny little foglights look a little odd to me. They don't look clean enough like OEM like they belong there. I'm not sure how to explain what I mean by it other than they just look out of place.

[Doug Hatton]

I definitely like he stance and wheel choice on Danny's more. I just wanted to show him the grill/valance.

[Steve]

That is very clean, but I still like Danny's car more.

[bcoop]

Danny, I finally stumbled across the white one I was thinking about when you were talking about the grill... It's a Saleen grill with CS/Boss lower....

That's pretty sick

[Mysticcobrakilla]

Do want!

[Badass2000GT]

Damn that's a good looking mustang.

[Doug Hatton]

Danny, I finally stumbled across the white one I was thinking about when you were talking about the grill... It's a Saleen grill with CS/Boss lower....