1995 Ford F150 XLT from North America - Comments

Sorry to say, if a garage or a dealer did this, you've been taken for a ride. 5 front rotors in one year??? They are supposed to last for at least 50K and may very well last for 100K. Some alarm clocks should be going off after replacement number two, even if you are not a professional mechanic. Either the pads were wrongly fitted or most likely there is rust or mud trapped inside the brake caliper. This will overheat the rotor and warp it after a short while since the pads will stick to the rotor.

But this can happen to ANY CAR! This does not make the F150 a poor truck.

My wife has a 1995 F-150 4x4 XLT with the 5.8L 351. In the last year she has had problem after problem starting with the alternator which we replaced, followed by front hubs, fuel pump, and now the transmission. There is something internal stopping the tranny from being able to switch between gears. We took it to a local mechanic who despite me telling him it was not the linkage, decided to replace the linkage as he thought it was the problem. A hundred bucks later he decides the problem is internal and he could not fix it. The symptoms include: No park gear, no low gear, the shifter free floats rather than "clicking" from gear to gear, the 4x4 light randomly blinks on and off and it is hard to find neutral to disengage the safety switch to start it. I have been told that this transmission is hard to find and will cost an arm and a leg to replace. She is dead set on having this truck for a long time as it holds sentimental value to her, and despite my efforts to talk her into a GM product it looks like I will be replacing the tranny on this heap. Does anybody have any resources that they could share with me to help me find a replacement without having to hand over my first born as payment? Thanks, Will... Cave Junction Oregon.

I just bought the 1995 ford f150 inline 6 the best thing I ever done. it has 112,000 miles runs great just riped the trany out though automatic I don't really care for automatics, but I like the way the truck drove,, beleive me I wouldn't trade the 300 6 for any v8... They have low end torque like you wouldn't believe I guess you can do somethings to get a lot of horsepower out of them too.. They sound pretty ignorent with a flowmaster pipe to.. I love any one that wants to put bigger moter in their truck is crazy, the inline 6 will outlast a v8 any time... no matter what happens to my beastly ford I would never own a chevy or gm... chevy or gm might look deicent, but their more for driving in comfort than doing what a real truck is meant to do., You can haul just about anything with the straight six too.,, well have a good one.

I have 1995 XL f150 with the 4.9Liter, 5 spd tranny, and A/C. Reg. cab and long bed. Got 33.5x13.5 toyo M/T's on it, with 6 inch suspension lift, 2 inch body lift. Low enough still to work out of and high enough to play with. I ve had the truck since may of 2006 with 142188 miles. Now may of 2008 it has 149,xxx miles. Doesn't sound like a lot of miles, but I've gotten a lot of use and fun out of it. I used it to landscape my home carrying 3yds of bark (at one time), 1.5 yds 5/8 minus gravel (at one time),and 2yds topsoil (at one time).Washington Rock Quarry scale read my heaviest weight (one trip out of like ten) with 4,200lbs of topsoil. The back end was dragging A lot and the tires were squatting! the bed was completely full and doming at the top. I know I was over weighted the 8 miles back home and it was scary to drive over 45mph but this truck did it.I've pulled stumps as well. Truck has an amazing ability to pull in first and second gear. And as for the fun, 4 low and second gear seem to get me any where I want to go. I've been in mud/snow 12" deep and never gotten stuck (I know that's not much to some, but I wasnt interested in finding my breaking point) My floor boards are 26" off of level ground. When my neighborhood had some flooding issues I went through about 20" of water (slowly) just fine. This truck has never had any prob starting, braking or shifting, the a/c blows cold and the radio is loud. The gas mileage is about 13 mph when I'm offroading and about 17 mph flat highway doing 55-65 mph. Not bad, I think for the way this truck is set up, lift and tires. However time for the bad. Going up steep hills it does not have the power to maintain highway or passing speeds while hauling or towing moderate to heavy loads. Great farm,work truck. Not great for pulling the travel trailer across the U.S. The 300 inline six is basically a tractor motor in a pickup,it goes slow and steady and I hear it's a very reliable power train setup. IF I didn't have this truck I'd get a diesel to get that extra power. But with the price of diesel. (at least right now it more than regular gas) I'm keeping the truck.

Hi, I am a big Chevy fan personally, but my brother has a 1993 F150 4x4 straight 6 auto. It is a very strong truck, although you can't tell till you try to pull. It's had its problems, on its second motor and trans at 185000, but nobody knows how they are treated before you get them.

This F150 and my 1995 K1500 305 auto are very evenly matched in power; both are great trucks, more than I can say for Dodge. I won't knock a truck unless I have personally owned it.

I have a 1995 F150 5.8 351w ext cab long box 4x4, and love it. It has 134000 on it, and other than the tank switch and the long body making turning sharp hard, it been a strong truck. Pulling a 96 z71 200 miles at 80mph the whole way LOL. Do that with GM without a shift kit and see how long your tranny will last in it.

So I saw people saying they hate these trucks cuz they had to replace common problems on any car/truck, but 5 rotors in 1 yr??? What are you thinking, take it to a shop, there had to be a reason for the rotors going bad.

The only issue that's killing me with this truck is that gas tank, but it is worth it when you've got to haul heavy things a long way. It's great for that, but trust me when I say don't use the bumper for real heavy loads, they ain't that strong LOL. I had to get a new one after hauling that Z71 home.