Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation
There was a request for a link to Ford's answer's to the NHTSA investigation posted on a previous thread, since closed. Here is the link: Ford's NHTSA Answers to the 6.7 investigation This PDF i...
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BenK wrote:
What happened to lab testing? Do they have a true representation of
the real world in their labs (both simulation and hardware) ?
Couple points.
Simulations never do more than approximate the real world.
We are right at the end of summer mid fall, which is the official end (a few weeks ago) of biodiesel season where OP lives.
They only add biodiesel in the summer up there, because it cannot be used in the cold climates they experience up there.
In order to make up the amount added (by government dictat), they put in all of it in summer months, and none in the winter months because biodiesel cannot tolerate cold --- it gells.
To me, the prime suspect is more and more looking like biodiesel correlated.
Failure in this case is immediately after biodiesel season.
It is hydroscopic, and absorbs moisture that is not well separated out by the present water block membrane or fuel-water separator.
We now know CP4 doesn't like water.
