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Ball Joint Life Span

suprdtydvr

240
2
Ledyard, CT
I am pretty sure the shop that sold me my new tires was just trying to sell more work but here it goes...

What criteria would cause the shop to tell me that "I will need ball joints soon" (39,000 miles on the truck) and that "Fords are known for issues with their ball joints" and there "may be a recall on them because they are that bad even on the 2008's"?

My truck rarely leaves the pavement and I tow a boat that is less than half of what this truck is rated to handle. If they are a problem nobody seems to talk about it here. BS or what?
 

FordF-SuperDuty

4,391
142
Ballwin, MO
suprdtydvr said:
I am pretty sure the shop that sold me my new tires was just trying to sell more work but here it goes...

What criteria would cause the shop to tell me that "I will need ball joints soon" (39,000 miles on the truck) and that "Fords are known for issues with their ball joints" and there "may be a recall on them because they are that bad even on the 2008's"?

My truck rarely leaves the pavement and I tow a boat that is less than half of what this truck is rated to handle. If they are a problem nobody seems to talk about it here. BS or what?
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I'm pretty sure there wanting to sell you some ball joints. Your may be in bad condition, but I've never heard of a recall or them being particularly bad on Fords of your or any other era. Take this with a grain of salt though.
 
d-kuzmen

d-kuzmen

Master Ford Tech
2,109
79
Connecticut
We change ball joints all the time on superdutys. It doesn't take much to make them have play, it just depends on the shop checking them as to how much is too much, if you go by Ford specs the wheel should be falling off.
 

suprdtydvr

240
2
Ledyard, CT
d-kuzmen said:
We change ball joints all the time on superdutys. It doesn't take much to make them have play, it just depends on the shop checking them as to how much is too much, if you go by Ford specs the wheel should be falling off.
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Ha! I kind of figured it was a little more subjective than what this guy was making it out to be.
 
UNRULEE

UNRULEE

^LARGE carbon footprint^
5,412
424
Coal Country, ND
Almost 70,000 on a 2005 f250 here and I'm still on the stock b-joints.

Someone is blowing smoke, balljoints aren't a mileage or age wear item like oil or tires. There needs to be some diagnosis to say that ball joints need replacement.
 

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