i have a mercury moutaineer its a ford product it has about 65.000 miles on it its a 01 never had a problem at all i also have a 99 ford explorer with about 97.000 miles on it i just cahange the oil. i had a 1994 ford ranger that i put 200.000 on never done nothing but change fluids. ford has been good to me . well also brakes but thats to be expected on all models . chevys are great ive only had used ones all the fords ive bought where new i went to chevy around 1994 and tryed to buy a truck and they didnt want to go down on the intrest went to ford and the funny thing was i got gmac finaceing at 10 percent less than what the chevy dealor was wanting so chevy lost a customer . ford has been great to me