The Ford has been really reliable, the radiator did develop a crack, but I did the ol' hillbilly tune up, fixed it with an egg, and 3 tours later, not a single issue.
We have an '05 ZX5. The alternator crapped out at about 45k miles. $50 part, did it myself. Otherwise, it's been flawless. 60k and counting.
this might also be due to either a faulty rotor (which i had problems with), air in the brake lines, a pinhole leak in one of the rubber brake lines, cooked fluid, it could be any number of things!
I grabbed the 24# mustang injectors for 75 bucks once. Use an ohm meter to measure the resistance of your original injectors and your new ones, if your new ones aren't even close, use a resister in line to make up the difference.
from 88k to 150k miles, I put in a new water pump ($27). otherwise very reliable and easy to find parts as there are tons of them in the junkyards.
Issam's right about the poor reliability of COPs. We regularly have vehicles in the shop whose spark plugs outlast the coils that fire them by tens of thousands of miles. One 5.4L ford V8 got six new coils before a single plug failed at 90k.
I can't believe the brakes used here, this is after all the 'Sport' model out of the Taurus lineup so therefor it should have received a better braking setup.
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