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08-25-2009 | 07:44 AM

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megacabdad

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From: Erie, PA

I had a F-150 that had a F-250 badge on it and the dreaded 7 lug wheels...

That was easy to get parts for!

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08-25-2009 | 07:57 AM

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74dart

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From: Shelby NC

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Originally Posted by MikeyB

Hey hey hey, I take exception on the engineering comments..... We only do what the ID, marketing and the bean counters tell us to do.

I bet the bean counters said that it saved Ford $0.40 per vehicle by going with 7 lugs.....

MikeyB

Thats why chrysler killed the orginal Hemi in the late 50s. They said that they would save $25 per motor with the wedge head desgin. Speculation is that they didn't save any money and it actually cost a little more for the wedge heads.

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08-26-2009 | 10:30 AM

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sled4fun

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Don't get me started on some of the B.S. I see designed into vehicles. I will agree it is probably related to the bean counters. But how do you justify changing a part that has worked for years and has had a very low failure rate compared to other designs of competing brands. They come up with some new way of doing it and it SUCKS!

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