![]() ALL part replacements now are considered as process oriented in only one direction now, or when the car is assembled on the line. They now consider the longer more involved work processes as profit generators and why you now may get charged a thousand dollars to even get 4 spark plugs changed. When the engineers designed back in the old days they somewhat considered their own workers working on the cars in the dealerships to try to make things somewhat easier. You bring up another way they now gouge you that they were better about not doing earlier. Why I've bought my last one too although it appears all the makers are going that way to one degree or another. I've watched it first hand get worse and worse over the last 25 years. They practice that in every model they make now, there is no escaping it. ![]() The engineers also contribute to the unitized part strategy, where they quit selling smaller commonly bought parts and combine them with much more expensive seldom bought parts as an assembly to raise average parts sales. ![]() That means taking some parts and redesigning them to fail faster under the guise of saving plastic or copper wire or making the car lighter for mileage. They actually use the engineers more now to figure out how to set that limit more and more firm as they go forward as being able to predict reliably when the cars will fail is worth bigtime $$$$$$$$. The engineers no longer look to repeat make the parts better and better, they only seek to make them last a finite period of time, going longer kills car sales. They have never done anything to improve that situation, in fact they have intentionally made the parts worse more than once in some cases to make the break happen even faster. The engines flat do not blow head gaskets, but the weak cooling system plastic part fails and then the gasket blows. Why you found all those reservoirs missing. There are several issues with the cooling systems that put together almost guarantee the cars will likely go to the scrapyard over cooling system failures. Almost anything plastic was in it, Ford commonly designs just enough to make the parts last maybe 100K miles and you can actually take the parts to look at them to tell where they would later break, I predicted it on several occasions. On the first year models I actually had a list drawn up of 50 things I saw on the cars as such that I had personally experienced breakage with. Like the plastic valve covers and thermostat housings that actually can go bad faster than the reservoirs.īecause at least the earlier engines lasted way too long and you can't sell more new cars like that, they were commonly going 300K miles. That plastic tank is only one of maybe 50 things on the cars made to do the exact same thing. It's done on purpose to create a nuisance issue that added up with others makes you want to buy a new car once yours gets older. Has anyone ever had a tank fail spontaneously? Just a heads up if you haven't looked at the back side of your overflow tank lately and want to catch a major melt down before it happens. But it definitely is streaking from the stress cracks.Ĭalled Ford parts and they have a new Reservoir called out for 2000 to 2005 that uses a different cap also - old cap won't fit. It looks like it evaporates before making it's way down the inner quarter body panel. And you'd never see anything on the ground. It's not much of a leak at all but it still is leaking. Never leaked before but the tank is long over due for replacing. I unbolted the reservoir so I could get at the fuel pressure rail's shrader valve easily. You'd never see the cracks or the leak when the bottle is mounted as the leak is on the side mounted closest to the fender. I was doing some base line checks on the 2000 SE, fuel pressure, and noticed some coolant leaking out of what looks like stress cracks on the back side of the reservoir tank. ![]()
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