redseal119

mine is out of warrantee and its the block!!! 89,000 mile and I baby my truck.... sad to say I chose the 5.0 because we thought it would be more reliable than the eco..... I wish some one would start a class action I would join in a heart beat!!!!!

steelerz1

Just took mine in today. It has 58.5k on it and I have the intermittent knock issue, although it seems to be more and more all the time lately. Of course the warranty guy that I met with (not a mechanic) sat in the truck with me and listened to it knock, and claimed that it sounded normal to him, lol! I said well, if that is normal for a Ford, then I find that concerning. He scheduled me to drop it off next week so they could check it out . I fully anticipated the "it's normal" thing. We will see what they say. This is my first Ford and I traded a 2001 Tundra that had 280k on it and the engine was quiet as a mouse.
I love my truck, but it is embarrassing to be sitting in a drive thru or in traffic and here this thing knocking. It's weird as it doesn't seem to speed up with RPM's and also seems to be louder when in drive than when in neutral.
I too have babied this truck and changed the oil every 5k like clockwork.
Hoping for Ford to make it right....

richardscalp

Does anyone know the percentage of problem trucks with the tick to the 5.0 engine ?
I have a 2014 5.0 and it seems a problem reading the forum but if the problem is a
1% or 2% issue than perhaps I can sleep better tonight.

redseal119

even though my truck does this super bad and the dealer has tore the motor down to verify I would say yes it is probably a low % that has this problem due to the fact that ford has made so many of these motors/trucks. The problem is it is a 9k $ fix if you are off warrantee and it is a defect from the factory aka nothing you could have done to cause the problem. Also to the other post if you truck is doing it just go trade it in now!!!! other people kept telling me to trade and I didn't hoping it would be some timing chain or ford would help or would be something else and in the end it is costing me dearly being faithful to ford. I guess there is a reason ford only does 60k on drive line when everyone else does 100k. Good luck

la_leo

You have my support

40mm

I hear ya... I had a 2013 that developed the knock at 11,000 miles. Dealership was in my corner, but the factory rep said it will be just fine. He claims the factory is aware of the problem but has never had an issue of the 5.0 "grenadine" because of it. So we are supposed to live with it and keep our fingers crossed. Some people out there have been fortunate enough to get them to replace it, but I'm sure the numbers are low. The dealership gave me an extended warranty for free to help me sleep better at night. A month later I dumped the truck and bought a 2014 with the 6.2L. Happy ever since and Never looked back

silvercrew12

Found out today from ford the motor is bad. Really hate that since I love this truck.

redseal119

well they are doing my motor right now on my dime!! To be fair ford did give a little assistance but with saying that I still would have been better off trading it in. mine needed a whole long block unlike others on here that just got short blocks. I would say that this was due driving it after the knock started. There is no doubt in my mind or any one that heard the truck that it was getting louder on a daily basis. I am sure another 10k miles and we would have seen total failure. For you all who's truck is doing this quietly or interment mine was the same way so keep putting the miles on it and will get worse eventually. good luck to everyone with this problem

silvercrew12

Well the dealer is taking the truck back. Not only did it have some engine noise it was starting to smoke. Not sure I will go back with a 5.0 after all this. Maybe start looking at the Eco boost on the next truck.

kd460

So how many miles on your engine? How many miles when you first noticed that something was not right and what did you hear?


I have a 2012 5.0. build date of Jan 2012. Get some occasional noises. Seemed worse just before it's last oil change (30% left on the oil life monitor when I changed the oil last week). I have 32,500 on the truck as of today.


Fresh oil change seems to have reduced or made the "tap tap" go away, but at times I think I still hear it. This past winter I have experienced the "tap tap" and some start up knocking, but, we have had some extremely cold temps this past winter in Michigan, so thought it may be due to that, however, I have heard the noises with a warm engine as well, but not ll the time.


Basing things on the history of this problem, it seems like a quick spark plug removal and bore scope would be a fast and inexpensive way to verify if it is cylinder damage or not, however, I am sure I would be hard pressed to talking a dealer into doing that without up front costs on my part (check it out under warranty). KD