1988 Ford F150 XLT Lariat from North America - Comments

Numerous Alternators and batteries.

Door window electric motors and plastic gears to raise and lower the windows, at 215,000.

Seats are very worn. But, they fit comfortably to my posterior!

Master-brake cylinder blew at 220,000.

Rear Main seal started leaking at about 190,000 miles. (Drinks a little more oil)

Valve cover gaskets started leaking about 225,000. (A little more OIL!)

It has survived a family of three boys, and is STILL running. Amazing, Huh?

My Father originally bought the truck brand new. It was passed to me, but I only used it for a few months. HARD Months! I gave it to my younger brother when I had the 'wild hair' to try out a foriegn pick-up. He drove it HARD, too...

Then, he gave it to the youngest brother, Talk about Hard driving!

I finally rescued it from my youngest brother, before he would sell it for a mere pittance.

The old girl was still in very good shape! Of course, any vehicle needs Alternators, and I am glad that Ford finally found out how to get a good starter motor.

Electrical system? Do not get me started. Generally, it is fine...But have you ever tried to turn on the windshield wipers when it is raining and get nothing? And the only way to get them started is to switch the Fuel Selector switch from 'Front to Back'? I hesitate to break open the wiring to find the fault. Granpa' said, "If it a'int broke, don't fix it!"

This Ford has a very strong motor, even after 243,000 miles! My father instilled in us sons very early that you have to change the oil every 5,000 miles. All of the sons have done this over the years.

I own two Ford trucks now; the first is a 1995 Ford F150 with the straight 6, and the other is a 1988 Ford F150 with the 5.0. The 1995 Ford was my very first truck; I ran into trees, bridges, and another thing, it's my best friends car till this day, it still runs, there is not one panel on the truck straight, but it will still boot, scoot and bogey. I had many cash offers on my child, but she will always be in my family.

My 1988 F150 has not had working gas gauges in 8 years. I have talked to several other same model owners with the same history of problems with the gas gauges. Does anyone know if there was an unusual trend with this year and its gas gauges and what the main problem was?

My 1988 f150 with a 5.0 is still running great even after 300,000 miles, but there are a few flaws with my truck, but nothing unexpeted after this many miles. when the engine gets warmed up it makes a knocking noise, i was told it might be the rist pins. the passenger side window doesn't work, it might be the motor. and also the speedo doesn't work and I'm not sure how to fix that. but over all this truck has been a good ride and it still shows how much power is left in the engine when you step on the gas.

My 1989 F-150 is strong! We bought our daughter a 2001 Mustang and my truck out lived it by a long run, needless to say the Mustang no longer runs, it's junk, and I paid 300.00 for the truck and 23,000 for the junk!