Ford faces $1.3 billion lawsuit over EcoBoost engine

kpratte wrote:

Lessmore wrote:


However the Ford ecoboost V6 engine had me rethinking. I hadn't heard about issues in the area of poor durability/reliability...and particularly not about catastrophic failure of turbo and engine.

Do some googling on the first gen 3.5 Ecoboost on the F150.. There were many cases of issues with the intake/intercooler. The motors were hydrolocking when the air was damp and the intercooler worked too well and dumped several ounces of water into the engine in a big gulp. Ford denied any issues for a while but magically fixed the problem on the 2nd release of the 3.5. The newer releases of the engine seem to have the kinks worked out.

My Gen1 had heat rejection issues. I am aware of quite a few others with the same issue too. I regularly had it go into limp mode on long, steep pulls. I warped both exhaust manifolds. I cooked a turbo. Yeah, I was towing heavy, up hills, in high temps, but heck, that's common out West. There are LOTS of passes on I5, I80, etc that climb 5000 feet with 7% grades and news flash, CA gets warm in the summer. Ford didn't design the heat rejection system with this in mind IMHO.

My Gen2 hasn't done any of that yet, but I'm in Oregon now and it's not as hot as CA was, nor do we have the long climbs. I have read that Ford did make further attempts to address the heat retention issues and I hope they got it right this time. It was my only real issue with the Gen1 that I had for 150k miles.

Mike