Before I start let me say we have had a Ford truck ( and a few other brands from time to time as well)on our farm every year since 1963 maybe more before my time!

Had the same problem as some of you. 2002 Ford F150 ...2 wheel drive 4door pickup. 1st year truck never seen the field or anything much like dirt, the old truck didn't die as quick as I thought it would. In the second year the 2002 was inthe field from spring till fall (April13- Dec5).  Dec 6 took truck to the dealer because I couldn't defrost/defog the windows , no heat. Dealer had no clue as to why it wasn't working spent 5 hours on it the first day only to discover by the end of the day air wasn't moving. Duh!. Second day they pulled the dash and bled the air conditioning system to get at the heater core. Found the problem , heater core was plugged with mud. Apparently in the summer the air con coil would sweat and get the heater core wet and being in a dusty fiekd ,dust turned to mud and plugged the core. Solution was the core out. It took them almost an hour with a pressure washer to get it clean before they reinstalled everything. End result was heater worked but not like new. But what do you expect for 11 hours of labour. The dealer was very good and ate half the bill because they had never done one before and had never had any training for that job so they wrote time off for their learning/training. They also suggested I call Ford Canada to se if they would do something since ford had no complaint history for that problem. I called and got consumer relations dept for Canada. I asked if there was a possibility that maybe there was a slight design flaw in these trucks in that the openings of the cores being too small and placement could cause the problem. The response I got was interesting and I Quote " Sir  we have no design flaws in out trucks!" click and they hung up on me and I couldn't get back thru to them after. In the end it ended up costing me about 6-7 hunderd dollars to fix the nonexistent problem and end up with a shaking and squeeky dash.

 The intersting part is that 2 years later had to do it all again. This time both heater and air coils had to be replaced because they couldn't get them clean. This time I ate the whole bill which was around 11 hundred dollars. Good thing was they finally got the dash tight and stopped the squeak.

SO far this truck has been a repair pit. It has had the stearing wheel replaced,fell apart. Bumpers replaced, rusted. Seat came un sewn. Transmission failed at 90,000 kms. Transmission is now leaking again. Spring shackles rotted out, not broke, rotted. Cd player has failed 3 times.Tie rod ends fell apart. Upper and lower ball joints premature failure. Universal joints failed at 61000kms. 1000KMS out of warranty and failed again at 100000kms. Last time replaced with greaseable.Rear cab doors lower rotted prematurely because Ford mounted the door seal over the drain holes which work great if you leave your doors open but seals the holes shut when you shut the doors which lets them fill with water. The dash fills up with dust over time so its hard to read the gauges. if you hit thr right spot with an air blast it gets sort of clean in there. The latest thing is the howling from the rear end. Just found outall the bearings and gears in the rear axle are wore out and need to be placed ... estimate is around 2 thousand dollars.

 Some say I should get rid of it but theres not much left to fix and I hear the new ones arn't much better.

 Now before you go and say I got a lemon let me say my brother has a year newer truck and his repair list is much longer, much longer and grows at a faster rate than mine. I also have many neighbours who have the same trucks of different years and all have the same problems depending on mileage, preengineered repair times ? And don't say I should get a chev or ram, been there done that ,they have lots of problems too. And to think our tax dollars on either side of the border are bailing this crap out!

Interesting side note, have been asking around and I have yet to find a Toyota or Honda truck with any problems other than maybe a mileage issue.

 Now for can you guess what I'm thinking my next truck will probably be?