speedfrk
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- 2022 Nissan Frontier
I met with the Ford FSE this morning and he hooked up the vibration equipment to my car and we went driving. Interestingly, he doesn't try to deny that these cars have a driveline vibration. He said he has had 2 Mustang GT's as company cars and they both had it to some degree. One worse than the other and most people don't even notice it unless it is at the limit or higher. I liked his honesty but we were talking engineer to engineer at that point. At the speed where it is worst (60mph usually) it was reading .011 g's and the Ford spec is .025. So my car is less than half of the spec for the driveline frequency. But, he didn't claim that you couldn't feel it, he just said that he couldn't get it any better. He also told me the whole story about when he worked on it the first 2 times. The first time they actually pulled a driveshaft from another car on the lot and it made the vibration worse. Then they installed a new driveshaft and it was basically unchanged. Then they changed the pinion flange and it had more run out that the original flange, but it balanced with the DS much better. He said when you are balancing the DS, you are really balancing the DS, flange and part of the diff that is directly bolted to the flange. He also said that sometimes a car goes from horrible to really good with a just tiny weight added to the DS. So, the point is that it is black magic 
My dilemma is- do I take the 100K extended warranty they are offering and call it a day or do I push on with the buyback. The vibration does annoy me, but he is shooting straight about the problem. I drove another new EB and GT on the lot, and they were both at least as bad as mine.
And, I demonstrated the clunk when going between rev/neut/drive and he checked and told them to order the front flange and nut.
My dilemma is- do I take the 100K extended warranty they are offering and call it a day or do I push on with the buyback. The vibration does annoy me, but he is shooting straight about the problem. I drove another new EB and GT on the lot, and they were both at least as bad as mine.
And, I demonstrated the clunk when going between rev/neut/drive and he checked and told them to order the front flange and nut.
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....I work at a dealership, just not for fords, I re-balanced the tires twice and as I was leaving work yesterday a freind was following me and he said both of my wheels were wobbling like I was missing lugnuts. Checked those and they were all at 100ft/lbs. I called the dealership I bought it from and they are looking at it tomorrow morning. Thank God for warranty.:ford: