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There is a tech named Mike Green in the area that for years has been regarded as one of the best. Hell, I've dropped his name on this site before. Now, he's not recommended by any of the people that did so in the past. That said he has a couple friends here on the site that I'm sure will tell him about this, so I'll hold the reasons he got fired two weeks ago from the Ford house in reserve.
My beef is simple.
A little over a year ago I dropped five grand on my truck with him, which is when we did an EGR delete, studded my heads, did an oil cooler (I hope it was done, as I paid for it), and installed a tuner with EGT. Thought that was cool because we did it at the Ford house on 121 in Frisco. Fast forward roughly 23000 miles and my truck is pushing boost into the radiator tank. I get his number from a friend and he starts pushing a new head. I talk to another tech who tells me that he has seen Mike use the (I'm not clear on the two sizes of gaskets so I'll just use thicker and thinner) thicker gaskets when the thinner ones are called for. It seems that these thicker gaskets are prone to blowing out prematurely. Hmm. Seems that Mike has had this called to his attention before and he said "Don't worry about it, use them". I find it reassuring that he knows about this issue, and before even checking it out starts trying to sell me a head. Fuck that. Mike, you won't ever touch my damned truck again.
So, I'm throwing this out there. Do NOT use Mike Green. If you take your Powerstroke in, ask who the tech is. If it's Mike Green, get it the fuck out of there. Otherwise, as happened to me, three weeks after he works on it you could get stuck a little over 60 miles from home when the long fuel line on the front of the block breaks at the banjo fitting because the technician he farms all of his work out to doesn't put the bolt back in the middle of it that was put there to stop vibration. When that happened he offered to "cut me a break on labor and get me a good deal on the line". Didn't help me with the $130 tow bill, the lost days work, the new line, etc. Total bullshit!!
So Mike. Thanks for telling me the other day that your warranty on $5,000 in parts and labor was over. Thanks for totally ignoring the fact that the truck went almost 90,000 miles on the factory gaskets, and less than a third on your studded heads. Thanks for not checking my truck over when I had it in your care, and for the right rear wheel cylinder blowing out a month later due to shitty pads. I got to do all four wheels brakes and buy a new right rear rotor. Sucks for your customers that you don't look their vehicles over for obvious safety issues. All I know is that I am damned glad that the morning my brakes went to the floor I had just pulled out of my driveway and forgot my sunglasses. Still scares me, knowing that I had about 4,000 pounds of stuff behind an 8,000 pound truck, and knowing what all that weight would have done to the innocent soccer mom (or whomever was unlucky enough to be in front of me) when the truck didn't stop at the next red light.
On the way this morning to drop this damned thing off at the dealership so that I can spend another two thousand or so that I shouldn't be having to spend.
/rant.
My beef is simple.
A little over a year ago I dropped five grand on my truck with him, which is when we did an EGR delete, studded my heads, did an oil cooler (I hope it was done, as I paid for it), and installed a tuner with EGT. Thought that was cool because we did it at the Ford house on 121 in Frisco. Fast forward roughly 23000 miles and my truck is pushing boost into the radiator tank. I get his number from a friend and he starts pushing a new head. I talk to another tech who tells me that he has seen Mike use the (I'm not clear on the two sizes of gaskets so I'll just use thicker and thinner) thicker gaskets when the thinner ones are called for. It seems that these thicker gaskets are prone to blowing out prematurely. Hmm. Seems that Mike has had this called to his attention before and he said "Don't worry about it, use them". I find it reassuring that he knows about this issue, and before even checking it out starts trying to sell me a head. Fuck that. Mike, you won't ever touch my damned truck again.
So, I'm throwing this out there. Do NOT use Mike Green. If you take your Powerstroke in, ask who the tech is. If it's Mike Green, get it the fuck out of there. Otherwise, as happened to me, three weeks after he works on it you could get stuck a little over 60 miles from home when the long fuel line on the front of the block breaks at the banjo fitting because the technician he farms all of his work out to doesn't put the bolt back in the middle of it that was put there to stop vibration. When that happened he offered to "cut me a break on labor and get me a good deal on the line". Didn't help me with the $130 tow bill, the lost days work, the new line, etc. Total bullshit!!
So Mike. Thanks for telling me the other day that your warranty on $5,000 in parts and labor was over. Thanks for totally ignoring the fact that the truck went almost 90,000 miles on the factory gaskets, and less than a third on your studded heads. Thanks for not checking my truck over when I had it in your care, and for the right rear wheel cylinder blowing out a month later due to shitty pads. I got to do all four wheels brakes and buy a new right rear rotor. Sucks for your customers that you don't look their vehicles over for obvious safety issues. All I know is that I am damned glad that the morning my brakes went to the floor I had just pulled out of my driveway and forgot my sunglasses. Still scares me, knowing that I had about 4,000 pounds of stuff behind an 8,000 pound truck, and knowing what all that weight would have done to the innocent soccer mom (or whomever was unlucky enough to be in front of me) when the truck didn't stop at the next red light.
On the way this morning to drop this damned thing off at the dealership so that I can spend another two thousand or so that I shouldn't be having to spend.
/rant.
I haven't worked @ the Ford dealership for almost 9 years and I don't do side work anymore. Must have been more than one Mike Greene in this area working for a Ford dealership
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