Major Ecoboost repair, long delays
My daughter parked her 2013 F150 Ecoboost with about 140,000 miles on it back in mid-May. When she started it back up it would barely run and was very rough. To make a long story short it was parked...
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Groover wrote:Retired JSO wrote:
With 130k on the clock, I’d be visiting a junkyard looking for an engine.
There are not many junk yards in my county and I am not about to buy one without seeing it first but I am about ready to start hunting one.
In another thread I saw a remark that Ford has 30,000 trucks sitting in lots waiting for computer chips. If they can afford to have that many engines tied up sitting in parking lots I would think that they could spare enough parts to get a few hundred customer trucks back on the road.
How much are they telling you for the new engine installed? Might be cheaper to look on the used market for a new-used truck of similar vintage.
Pulling a motor off the assembly line is not as simple as it sounds and as soon as those chips come in, it's probably a 15min job to install them and then they are out to the dealers where they generate a few thousand in profits per truck vs what? A few hundred on a crate motor?
