Rest In Peace "old faithful"
Finally happened , after almost 23 of service my 1995 f150 appears to have bit the dust . I bought it in1997. Quit at the grocery store and had to be towed home today . 335,000 miles and worn completely out will start on diagnostic tomorrow . Even if I can't resurrect it I have no complaint , I got my money's worth . Total repair bills over the years come to less than $1000.00 and I collected better than $4000.00 in insurance payments from other people running into me and dinging up the body . Will start a search for a replacement
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Impossible! Sorry it can't be true. You must have added an extra zero on the mileage. Some on here would have you believe that no AMERICAN made vehicle will last that long. 
You are right, you got your moneys worth. I guess you know what you can spend that stimulus money on. Hope you beat that mileage with the next one. Bob0 -
good deal obvious you took care of it to some degree and did not drive abuse the crap out of it
I agree you got your money worth on that one
sadly here in Ohio with all the salt dumped on the roads it will eat the body well before the millage gets them . I would rather drive on the snow and ice and save my cars buts I am out numbered
also I hope your not like me its a bad affection I hate to just give up or scrap any thingc I am a lost cause glass half full when it comes to repairing any thing . if I can repair it with in reason ( sometimes reason goes out the door it becomes a challenge ) wife and kids get on me and say just throw it away and move on ..
any way hope your next one does as well or better0 -
My 2000 model has almost 300,000 miles on it. But the salt and not keeping it in a garage has cost, that and those year models rust more than normal. Still runs and still pulls fine. Need to replace it soon. 0 -
that would be an average of 14,565 miles a yr.. slightly higher than I usually drive. At that rate I have purchased my last truck if as lucky as you. 0 -
Between the purchase price , insurance payouts and maintence cost , I figured out that the truck cost me a whopping $100.00 a year to own . Never did fix any of the dings. . Rest assured the next will be a ford
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My Nissan pick up had the transmission die at 400,000 miles.Most transmission shops charged $3000+ to repair it.The logical thing was to junk it.It tried for a month to find a junkyard transmission and no one had one.One of the local junkyard guys called and told me he had one for $400 with 100,000 miles but would guarantee it for 6 months.I put the trans in,flushed it with Mobil synthetic fluid and installed the biggest transmission cooler I could find.The old Nissan has almost 500,000 miles on it and is doing fine. 0 -
Not bad, if it made it to 500,000 miles, it would be in the same category as a Toyota, Subaru, or Nissan 0 -
Preliminary diagnostics is it is not firing . According to my repair manuals there are only about 500 different electronic gadgets that could possibly be bad ! Only 2 or 3 are cheap/ reasonable cost, the rest are super expensive. With all its other issues, bad front end , high mileage , needs a steering column etc . it may not be cost effective to repair . Time will tell ..... course I may not be smart enough to figure it out anyway !🤪
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Is it a 300 6 cylinder? My son had a a Ford that quit firing and I changed several electronic parts that threw a code on OBD2 reader.It would run a few days and throw a different code,it would run for a while again and die.I was telling a Toyota mechanic what it was doing,he said put a new distributor in it and it would cure the problem.He was right,a $50. distributor fixed it. 0 -
5.0 motor v8 should be a frustrating journey ahead . As posted earlier not going to spend a ton on it . 0 -
If firing is the problem it's fixable. I'm familiar with the 300 but not the 95 model.
I spun the pin on the distributor gear in a 1986 E150 van. I liked to never figured that out until I took the cap off and cranked the engine, when the button didn't turn I knew I had been chasing my tail. I fixed it with a key ring I straightened and cut, put it in and went on. I bought a pin to replace it and my fix spun out before I got it in. (should have fixed it in the parts store parking lot) Fixed that with the new pin and gear and it wouldn't start. This happened on I70 in Illinois with the family along. A man stopped and offered assistance after a couple of hours (was getting ready to walk, no cell phone then). He took me to the next town and a parts store. I bought every electronic part I thought it could be, new coil, everything. Turned out to be a part on the distributor, the first one I changed, I can't remember what it's called.
I had to drop the oil pan to get the gear out, while saving the oil. All this by the interstate, lot's of fun.0
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