JB7795
Member
- Joined
- December 10, 2019
- Messages
- 30
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- City, State
- Noblesville, IN
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2004 Explorer XLT 4.6L
To make a long story short, I’ve rebuilt this engine and installed a new transmission but truck lacks that throw you back in the seat kind of acceleration. Essentially the truck seems to accelerate okay from a dead stop but once you’re moving at 50-60mph and you give it gas as if you’re about to pass someone or merge onto the interstate, the RPMS shoot up to 4-5K but the truck doesn’t move along with it. You have to feather the throttle in order for it to accelerate at a “reasonable” rate. Truck seems to shift smooth as butter when you feather it, but if you try to get on it, it seems to shift pretty abruptly and harsh...So recently took my 04 Explorer to the ford dealership for a diagnostic, originally was supposed to be $80 but was told it’d cost $400 for them to diag it further so I gave them the go ahead since I’ve already invested so much of myself into this project I wanted a break but I now regret doing so because all they told me after having the truck for two days was that it needed a new battery (already knew that) and that my aftermarket plugs (Bosch) and ignition coils were to blame and I needed motorcraft instead. I thought okay I’ve had experiences with that before on other vehicles where an aftermarket part has caused problems so I buy new Motorcraft coils/plugs and a battery and guess what? Still having the same problems. And to think they wanted to charge me $1,400 to do that LOL 1/2 hour of labor to put a battery in, I’d be concerned if it took a technician half an hour to swap out a battery but I digress. I’m considering going back to this dealership this week and raising hell because I’m not quite sure what I paid $400 for, I mean I would think finding out the battery, coils and plugs were the problem would be a pretty basic $80 diagnostic but anyways just looking for some ideas thanks.