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- ^ Or to put Bens words (although he is spot on) into blue collar lingo, "you can't fix stupid". If your car starts to overheat, stop. Period, end of story.
Never underestimate the sheer ignorance of the average human being. Thinking anything mechanical is a God given right and should be perfect and should warn you and deliver you to the nearest Starbucks while it fixes itself is why "issues" like this get blown up out of proportion. Well, that and Bookface allowing everyone to pile on.
Wonder how much of a new car price tag is dedicated to the mfgs legal team?
Although I do love a good Ford bashing thread, lol.....so carry on! - It has to do with the design architecture and the biggie duty cycle employed by those Ford Engine engineers...
Yup, a hose, but it says something to a techie like me...
The thermal dynamics of the design has it very close to the thermal rejection design. Not much is left for it to go into a shallow hysteresis curve to allow the thermal sensors to come up to speed and set any one of the limp modes (most limp mode set points (both hardware and software) are based on thermal...both rate of change and ultimate temp)
Meaning that the thermal rejection systems was balls to the wall most of the time...maybe all the time and once the hose let go...no time for the system to warn...go into limp mode...shut down...
Duty cycle and is what Turtle talks to all the time when someone says why don't they put the F150 EcoBoost into the higher class trucks...LOL when he says that 2.x liter is really a 7L-8L when at full boost...lost to most that fine, but biggie point... BenK wrote:
https://carbuzz.com/news/ford-faces-1-3-billion-lawsuit-over-defective-ecoboost-engines
It seems to me that both the coolant hose and the temperature gauge were defective, or the owners were the same type of drivers who drives with a phone in one hand textings, and a blinker light on for miles.
Those drivers were more than likely to do something boneheaded at any moment.- After reading the article it is a hose that is defective and not the motor.
- hmmm...who tows with a 1.0 liter engine with a whoppin' 123 hp 125 torque. Not many I would bet.
- I'll stick with my Chevy. GM has their own issues.
