Blue smoke coming from tail pipe. Form letter reply. The tail latch was sticking, the rotor had to be machined, the windshield had to be re-sealed due to it leaking, the ball joints and serpentine belt were replaced, the valve cover gasket was leaking and had to be replaced.

- Big Bend, WI, USA

I have a 2000 Ford 150 ext.cab truck a freind of mine brought to my attention that the doors are cracking. He has a 1998 ext cab F-150 that did the same thing. He got his fixed under warranty. I called Ford Motor Co. They told me they were not aware of a problem to take it to my local dealer who told me there is nothing they will do to repair this. They would not even come out and look at it. They did tell me there is a fix for this problem but they don"T have a recall for this. I went to several local dealers and checked 1997 to 2000 Ford trucks and found 8 out of 8 had this same problem. I called Ford. Again they gave me the same story. Since then I have been checking other trucks in parking lots and they all have the same problem and most of the people that I have got to talk to were not aware their doors were cracking. I really think Ford needs to recall these doors after paying $25,000 for an automobile and having something like this happen to it. They know there?S a fix for it but won"T pay to fix the problem

- Mooresville, IN, USA

My F150 has a door crack on the drivers door. 80 to 90% of 1997 through 2000 F150/250 pickup will develop this problem on one of both of the front doors. As I didn't notice this until two weeks after my warr. Ran out, Ford will not do anything about this. I have found two internet sites with people with the same problems on thousands of trucks involved. There are several tsbs from Ford on this problem.

- Milaca, MN, USA

Cab floor cracking at seat mounting bolts. Dealer has denied warranty repairs. Nlm

- Tehachapi, CA, USA