My daughters 97 ranger just had the hubs go out last week during a monster snowstorm in Minneapolis. The replacement automatic hubs will cost $900 to replace or about half of that for manual hubs. According to consumer reports, this is a common problem with ranger pickups. A local mechanic told me that the problem is that the factory packed hubs have grease that is way too thick in frigid climates that may cause the failure.
My questions is: Does my 2002 F150 Fx4 offroad have the same automatic hub design as the 97 ranger and prone to failure or was the design changed to something like GM uses?
One person told me that he thought Ford did change the design for the hubs sometime back.