Warranty extension on SOHC engine?

[awhughes]

Can anyone confirm a rumor that Ford has extended the warranty on the 4L SOHC to 6yrs. or 100k miles? It was mentioned on another message board that this is the case, but details were not explained. Could they be confused with the 00M12 extended coverage of the tensioners and o-rings?

 

[EB2K]

I saw in a newspaper that the local ford dealer was offering a 100,000 mile warranty with new 2000 ford explorers. i dont think that is for explorers which were already bought. that sucks though, i bought mine in september. they are jsut extending the warrenty on two parts that i cant think of right now.

 

[Robert]

Originally posted by awhughes
Can anyone confirm a rumor that Ford has extended the warranty on the 4L SOHC to 6yrs. or 100k miles? It was mentioned on another message board that this is the case, but details were not explained. Could they be confused with the 00M12 extended coverage of the tensioners and o-rings?

The extended warranty for the camshaft tensioners is through the Owner Notification Program 00M12. It is for 6 years/72K miles though, not 100K. I haven't heard of Ford extending the warranty on the entire engine. Would be nice though.

 

[gijoecam]

What Robert stated is correct... I just got the notification letter the other day.

 

[Ricardo Miramontes]

Estimated time.....

Does anyone know about how long it would take to do each one of the jobs, (replacing chain tensioners, air intake gaskets)? I need my car to commute back and forth to work and school and it would be an inconvenience for me if it took a long time.

Thank You,
Ricardo

 

[awhughes]

The dealership performed the "00M12" fix on my 97' in about three hours. Being a common fix they should be good at it by now. I left it with them at 7:30 a.m. and the service advisor called me at about 11 a.m. saying it was ready. He told me that mine was worked on out of order, meaning they pulled the work orders from the wrong end of the pile. Oh well you get lucky sometimes.
With an appointment and parts on hand it should be in and out in one day, if not raise hell.