Ford Protect - Flood vs Granger

[Stormpeakco]

Wondering if anyone mght have insight on how much extended warranties are rising beginning on 4/1/2025?
Thanks in advance.

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[z-man]

Wondering if anyone mght have insight on how much extended warranties are rising beginning on 4/1/2025?
Thanks in advance.

https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/thr...rford-before-prices-go-up-on-april-1st.34314/

Says double digit percentage so 10% or more.

 

[Stormpeakco]

Thanks, ugh.
Just rec'd our '25 KR and will purchase ESP sometime but only drive ~6K miles per year...

 

[Stormpeakco]

Thanks y'all. I Checked Granger and Ziegler web site quotes and Granger is a few hundred cheaper for me in CO....WARNING-stupid question coming (doubtful, that it has NOT been frequently asked before but perhaps not in '25).

Two days ago, at the day of writing the check to the dealer for the '25 purchase the salesperson said (DURING THE OBLIGATORY ESP/Service sales pitch) "oil changes-filter (V6-Hybrid) would be ~$150 a piece" (BUT I could pay a boatload price (in my head I roughly calculated it to be $200/ change) for 10 years, in advance! Our likely yearly use 6K miles/yr and we try to keep vehicles well maintained for 10 years).

There is a great garage w/ great folks 40 miles away that charges me $55/change w/ full synthetic on our VW wagon (in addition for no additional charge they rotate the tires, vacuum/wash the floor mats, wash interior and exterior windows). Obviously the F150 w/ larger oil capacity would be more but I am thinking about alternating between the ford dealer in town and the lil' garage for the oil changes.

(know there are guys here who change their own) Should NOT be an issue w/ the original 3/36 coverage AND ESP (10Y/100K) IF this small garage documents that it uses the rec'd by Ford, MOTORCRAFT OIL AND FILTER at the outlined Ford service schedule)?
What/when was the legal provision enacted? Thanks.

 

[Saturnfire]

Thanks, ugh.
Just rec'd our '25 KR and will purchase ESP sometime but only drive ~6K miles per year...

I know the feeling. I have 4 other vehicles and only go to the 3 days a week. I am hoping to make 8K miles on the F150.

Thanks y'all. I Checked Granger and Ziegler web site quotes and Granger is a few hundred cheaper for me in CO....WARNING-stupid question coming (doubtful, that it has NOT been frequently asked before but perhaps not in '25).

Two days ago, at the day of writing the check to the dealer for the '25 purchase the salesperson said (DURING THE OBLIGATORY ESP/Service sales pitch) "oil changes-filter (V6-Hybrid) would be ~$150 a piece" (BUT I could pay a boatload price (in my head I roughly calculated it to be $200/ change) for 10 years, in advance! Our likely yearly use 6K miles/yr and we try to keep vehicles well maintained for 10 years).

There is a great garage w/ great folks 40 miles away that charges me $55/change w/ full synthetic on our VW wagon (in addition for no additional charge they rotate the tires, vacuum/wash the floor mats, wash interior and exterior windows). Obviously the F150 w/ larger oil capacity would be more but I am thinking about alternating between the ford dealer in town and the lil' garage for the oil changes.

(know there are guys here who change their own) Should NOT be an issue w/ the original 3/36 coverage AND ESP (10Y/100K) IF this small garage documents that it uses the rec'd by Ford, MOTORCRAFT OIL AND FILTER at the outlined Ford service schedule)?
What/when was the legal provision enacted? Thanks.

Just keep a record, receipts, pictures. My local ford dealer charges ~$50-$60 for oil change and filter. I rather not use them either only because usually it is the least experienced person doing the oil change. Even in my previous F150 on 2 occasions they put a different viscosity oil in the truck and when I pointed it out, magically in 15 minutes it was "changed" to the correct one. ... In both instances I drove home and changed the oil myself.

With my new 2024, I did the first oil change in my garage and it took me 20 minutes...I dumped the factory oil at around ~860 miles.

Walmart & Amazon sell the Ford genuine factory filters. (~$9)

 

[z-man]

Thanks y'all. I Checked Granger and Ziegler web site quotes and Granger is a few hundred cheaper for me in CO....WARNING-stupid question coming (doubtful, that it has NOT been frequently asked before but perhaps not in '25).

Two days ago, at the day of writing the check to the dealer for the '25 purchase the salesperson said (DURING THE OBLIGATORY ESP/Service sales pitch) "oil changes-filter (V6-Hybrid) would be ~$150 a piece" (BUT I could pay a boatload price (in my head I roughly calculated it to be $200/ change) for 10 years, in advance! Our likely yearly use 6K miles/yr and we try to keep vehicles well maintained for 10 years).

There is a great garage w/ great folks 40 miles away that charges me $55/change w/ full synthetic on our VW wagon (in addition for no additional charge they rotate the tires, vacuum/wash the floor mats, wash interior and exterior windows). Obviously the F150 w/ larger oil capacity would be more but I am thinking about alternating between the ford dealer in town and the lil' garage for the oil changes.

(know there are guys here who change their own) Should NOT be an issue w/ the original 3/36 coverage AND ESP (10Y/100K) IF this small garage documents that it uses the rec'd by Ford, MOTORCRAFT OIL AND FILTER at the outlined Ford service schedule)?
What/when was the legal provision enacted? Thanks.

Just keep your receipts and make sure the oil they use has the Ford spec. You will be fine. I think if you do 6k a year you could do oil changes once a year and be okay?? I do my own oil changes every 5k.

 

[Saturnfire]

Just keep your receipts and make sure the oil they use has the Ford spec. You will be fine. I think if you do 6k a year you could do oil changes once a year and be okay?? I do my own oil changes every 5k.

Ford recommendation:
For a 2024 Ford F-150 with the 5.0L engine, the recommended oil change interval is typically every 7,500 to 10,000 miles, or every 6 months, whichever comes first


On my TRX and Wrangler 392 it specifically says 6 months or 5k miles.
2023 TRX has ~6100 miles now
2024 JL392 ~ 2700 miles now

I have done a lot of oil changes at the dealership to make sure they do not have any chance of not honoring a warranty.

 

[Stormpeakco]

Thanks, everyone for the responses.
SOO, (with our expected low mileage, ~6K year use) IF the oil changes AREN'T each 'n every six months, does anyone believe that this WOULDN'T void original warranty/ESP?

Yes proton (acid) accumulation for the sitting oil but during the 6 months between later October to early April, we'll take the Noco off the battery in our home, heated garage and may only drive 1-1.5K miles on the truck before seasonal regional trailer camping use.

 

[z-man]

Thanks, everyone for the responses.
SOO, (with our expected low mileage, ~6K year use) IF the oil changes AREN'T each 'n every six months, does anyone believe that this WOULDN'T void original warranty/ESP?

Yes proton (acid) accumulation for the sitting oil but during the 6 months between later October to early April, we'll take the Noco off the battery in our home, heated garage and may only drive 1-1.5K miles on the truck before seasonal regional trailer camping use.

Oil changes are cheap so just do them more often than not to be safe.

 

[Stormpeakco]

yup, agree...(the mandatory 6 month change provision makes it a lil' painful-wasteful,
jus having a lil' whine w/ my morning joe)

 

[NothingKing]

Wondering if anyone mght have insight on how much extended warranties are rising beginning on 4/1/2025?
Thanks in advance.

On Flood Ford's site, when you go through the prompts to get pricing, it actually says the increase is 12%.

 

[Stormpeakco]

Ouch (not chump change), thanks.
Ford chat had no idea, this AM.

 

[franksfords]

Purchased my protect through Flood last week. Was going to just get the ExtraCare because my XL doesn't have a lot of the "extra" comforts that the upper trims do but for a little under $500 I went ahead with the Premium 10/100.

 

[Stormpeakco]

Yeah, I'm concerned w/ all the mind boggling, electronic related gear (according to our salesperson ~33K electrically related entities in @ truck
..even a failure rate of 1% could become brutally spendy).

We also went forward w/ 10y/100K "premium care + adds". She also quoted us $4K b4 the adds-Yikes!

 

[dochawk]

but for a little under $500 I went ahead with the Premium 10/100.

most of the adds seem to be no-brainers; the incremental price increases are so small.

On her new maverick, we paid the extra $455 to go for $0 instead of $100 deductible. I figure CV twice, battery (at least) once, and only 1.5 more to break even!

The increases by number of years are fairly small, as are those by mileage--right until going past 100k! ?

the confusing one is the extended towing, which costs about twice as much for only half the amount.
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