So it finally happened. We had a road trip that was not ideal at all.
My daughter(22) left St. Louis Friday morning to drive 400 miles to her school in eastern Kentucky. My wife and daughter (16) and I left after work to picker her up and then continue the drive to Disney.
Arrived at 11pm, picked her up from school, drove 4 miles to Buccees for some food and gas. 11:30pm, started to get on I-75 south near Richmond KY. My newish f150 accelerated onto the highway and at 75mph, we had a loud THUNK... and lost all forward gears in the transmission. Got onto the far shoulder, had no park or reverse.
Ford roadside assistance picked us up at 12:30am and flat bedded my truck to a dealer 4 miles away. What do we do....we had a vacation to get to. My daughter ubered back to her apartment, and picked up her car, and came back to the dealership.
we then unpacked 4 persons luggage and a weeks worth of food and crammed as much of it as we could in a little vw gti. left some things in the truck, and started to drive to Disney by 1:30am. Arrived at boardwalk by noon Saturday and started vacation.
The truck lost its transfer case, $3-5k worth of repairs thankfully covered under warranty. The dealer is going everything it can to have it ready for my when by Friday at 8pm.
We were so lucky the truck broke so close to my daughters house, and we had her car. If not we surely would have lost 1-2 days of our trip and typhoon lagoon glow party tix.