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Ford Defective 6.0L Engine Class Action Lawsuit
By Mike Holter
UPDATE: This case was consolidated with multiple other class action lawsuits into multidistrict litigation (In re: Navistar Diesel Engine Products Liability Litigation). The Court approved the Ford diesel engine class action settlement on July 2, but two appeals have been filed. The settlement cannot become effective until these appeals are resolved. Class Members are advised to check the status of these appeals on September 20, 2013. The Ford engine class action lawsuit states that despite being launched with “great fanfare” in 2002, by the end of its short production life, Ford’s 6.0L Engines had unprecedented repair rates, accounted for approximately 80% of all of Ford’s warranty spending on engines, and forced Ford to assemble a team of approximately 70 engineers to assist Ford’s supplier in identifying and resolving problems.
“Ultimately, Ford sued its engine supplier, Navistar, for $493 million for what it termed ‘exceptionally high repair rates and warranty costs due to quality problems attributable to Navistar,’ including ‘design flaws,’” the class action lawsuit continues.
The defective Ford engine class action lawsuit says Ford documents show that (1) Ford knew about issues regarding the 6.0L Engine even before the engine’s launch; (2) the same core concerns persisted throughout Ford’s production and sale of the 6.0L Engine; (3) Ford never had a “definitive repair action” for these issues; (4) most, if not all of these concerns had a “common cause;” and (5) Ford ultimately adopted a band-aid approach to reduce its “warranty spend,” without addressing the “common causes” of these problems.
The Ford defective 6.0L diesel engine class action lawsuit is brought on behalf of all California entities and residents who currently own or lease (or previously owned or leased) a vehicle with a Ford 6.0L diesel engine. It is seeking numerous damages, including:
– Out-of-pocket damages for engine repair/service;
– Deductibles paid when repairs were covered by warranty;
– Towing charges incurred from having incapacitated vehicles towed in for repair;
– Lost profits from the inability to use vehicles when the engine failed, the vehicle being stored at a Ford dealership awaiting repair, or the vehicle being insufficiently reliable to be put into service;
– Cost to overhaul or replace the defective 6.0L Engines;
– Diminution in value of the vehicles due to the defect;
– Decreased trade-in or selling value; and more.
A copy of the Defective Ford 6.0L Diesel Engine Class Action Lawsuit can be read here.
The case is David L. Adams v. Ford Motor Co., Case No. 37-2012-00091290-CU-BC-CTL, Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Diego.
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336 thoughts onFord Defective 6.0L Engine Class Action Lawsuit
I own a 2004 Ford diesel. Have replaced the turbo 3 times and EGR. Ford knew they had a problem with the engine before they put the truck on the market. But still sold them to loyal Ford buyers. Im in the hole for over 9K and just sick that Ford would turn out to be crooks.
I will definitly be in on that class action law suit.
Pensacola, Florida
2006 F 350 dulley egr cooler headgaskets studs bullet proof mods and stil a problem just spit all the water on the street when i got home lastnight after 10.000 in repairs I have had enough sighn me up!
I have a 2005 diesel with 78,100 miles. 7 injectors went out all at once. Egr cooler went out and the head gaskets as well. Leaked coolent into the oil. Not to mention my engine block cracked. Happened a week before christmas. All in all cost me $14,485.60 to fix. I never ever had something like this go wrong on a vehicle before. How,or am I even able to get in on the class action law suite?
I have a 2003 ford and has been a maintenance nightmare in the last few months. The truck has 77000 miles on it and I just replaced the fuel injection control module (ficm), injector control pressure sensor (icp sensor), and now I have a alarm on the #7 injector high voltage aka injectors out. I took it to the shop to get injector replaced and the mechanic advised me the truck either has low fuel or oil pressure, and a leak in the charge air. I have dumped thousands into this truck already and now I’m looking at thousands more. What can i do.
I would like to get in on the lawsuit. And for your information. Check your bill. The mechanic are so good at fixing the 6.0 because of all the practice that they do it in way under the allowed Ford book labor hours. My F350 6.0 When in and he had it fixed in 7 hrs. Ford allows 17.7 hours and that is what they charge us for. Which means I paid over $200 per hour on the labor to fix a problem they knew they had. What a deal for the dealerships. After I screamed a while they nocked off $300 but the labor was still $1200 for 7 hours. You do the math.
I would like to join too. My 2005 F250 6.0 lost the egr cooler and head gaskets at 66,000 miles and cost $8,000 to fix and update with egr delete, head studs and good gaskets. Engine light has been on ever since. Never came on when it blew up though.
How do we get in on this???
I have a 6.0 nothing but problems
What do we need to do if we are having problems and just bought the truck? We are not happy!!
Egr collet bad again know head gaskets bad and the terbo is giving my problems to can’t trade it in I’ll lose 10 grand this sucks no will by it eat her because of the problems with thes things thay got a bad rep and on one wants em
I have a 05 6.0 with less than 60k miles as of 2/1/12. Are they including all 6.0 and states? I have have all the issues, roughly 10k in repairs and Ford offered me a bumper to bumper warranty for just over 2k, retuned my engine to what I feel are below original specs to prevent future repairs.
I would like to be included in any future updates to this lawsuit.
My truck is a 2005 F-350 Super Duty, 6 liter diesel. I spent this year 2014 over $10,000 replacing all 8 injectors and repairing the head gasket failure. I also replaced a failed low oil pressure sender $130 I spent around $6,000 upgrading all of the week parts with a Banks Power System and Bullet Proof upgrades. We had 2 extended warranties that took the vehicle up to 115,000 miles. They cost us over $6000. We had a failed FICM ($100 deductible fee), two separate clock spring failures ($200 deductible fees), speedometer failure ($100 deductible fee) ERG cooler failure ($100 deductible fee) entire front end replacement ($100 deductible fee), base plate gasket failure ($100 deductible fee) three different actions to replace failed injectors 2 each time. ($300 deductible fee). The deductibles cost total is $1000. The total to keep my truck running is $23130. I can’t imagine what the many Ford shops charged for the warranty work they did. The aftermarket studs alone to correct the bad design with the head gasket failure were $644.
i had to do the same thing with my 2003 f350 deisel how can i get into the law suit
chuck 949-586-7698
I tried to talk to u today but the connection was bad. I have the same truck you do and was wondering what you found out about the class action suit. When you get time call me on my cell 512-970-3342 or work 979-249-2545.
Thanks