What goes wrong after you buy the truck.

The Throttle Times covers vehicle ownership: problems by model year, repair costs, maintenance intervals, recalls and service bulletins. Every claim we publish traces back to a record you can open yourself.

Source 1
NHTSA recall and complaint records

Federal safety recalls, defect investigations and owner-filed complaints.

Source 2
Manufacturer service documentation

Technical service bulletins, satisfaction programmes and VIN-level recall lookups.

Source 3
Factory manuals and warranty guides

Published schedules, specifications and coverage terms for the exact model year.

Latest research

Each article is researched against primary records, written from those records, and independently verified by a second team member before it is published.

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What we cover

Most automotive publishing is built for people who are still shopping. We are built for the person who already owns the vehicle and now has a problem, a warning light, or a service quote they are not sure about.

F-150 Problems

35 articles published

Oil Change

12 articles published

The rules we work to, in writing

Each of these is a live page on this site, not a claim on this one. If our published work contradicts them, tell us and we will correct the work.

Editorial Policy
Our source hierarchy, review process, and what we refuse to publish.
Corrections Policy
How to report an error, and how we log and date every correction.
How We Make Money
Our revenue sources, and the wall between them and editorial decisions.
Who we are
The team behind the site and how the work is divided.

What we are not

Nobody on our team is a certified automotive technician, and we do not diagnose vehicles. Our editorial team works from Durg, Chhattisgarh, India, and publishes for United States owners. Our authority comes from disciplined sourcing against US primary records, not from firsthand experience on American roads. Nothing here replaces an inspection by a qualified technician, and the full limits are set out in our Disclaimer.

Tell us where we got it wrong.

Corrections from owners and technicians improve this site more than anything else does. If you have documentation that contradicts something we published, send it and we will review it.

Readers and corrections

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Errors, questions about an article, or a source we missed.

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