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Old 06-18-2016, 08:57 AM
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Have a friend that was taking a family trip cruising down the turpike, out of nowhere truck just blew, oil everywhere, as far as dripping down the tailgate. Anyone else heard of the 2015 3.5 ecoboosts just blowing? About 15k miles (maybe less)
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Geeez, how many have to blow before they replace all of them!
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Which ecoboost and what year was it?
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isolated incident, ecoboosts aren't blowing up all over the place.

Lets try to keep this from getting out of hand maybe?
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Dripping oil to the tailgate? How in tarnation?? Did the engine explode? I'm skeptical.
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I heard there's a TSB for that..
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Yes the Eco engines do have a small failure rate. The 15+ has the same old engine design so they are susceptible same as the 11-14 f150s. Note these failures occur whether tuned or not. What's the failure rate? I have no idea. In 100k miles under 1%. But when you have millions on the road that's thousands....
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Originally Posted by zx12-iowa
Yes the Eco engines do have a small failure rate. The 15+ has the same old engine design so they are susceptible same as the 11-14 f150s. Note these failures occur whether tuned or not. What's the failure rate? I have no idea. In 100k miles under 1%. But when you have millions on the road that's thousands....
They fixed the issue in the new 2017 EB engines. You should upgrade.
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although you haven't heard "or at least I haven't" of near as many failures with the 15-16 as the previous years.
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although you haven't heard "or at least I haven't" of near as many failures with the 15-16 as the previous years.
That's reassuring.
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