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Ford F-150 Ecoboost problems limp mode and many other issues
http://www.f150forum.com/f38/ford-f-...issues-157704/
ISSUE
Around the 20,000 mile mark, Ford F-150 EcoBoost is having the following problems:
• Engine mis-firing while idle
• Returns to idle when accelerating to merge onto freeway
• Reverse camera issues
• Random check engine light
Potential Cause
• Blown Engine
o To diagnose a potential blown engine, Summertop511 suggests using a compression checker to check cylinder compression. All cylinders should be within 15 psi of eachother, otherwise there is a blown engine possibility.
Read below for the full discussion…
http://www.f150forum.com/f38/ford-f-...issues-157704/
ISSUE
Around the 20,000 mile mark, Ford F-150 EcoBoost is having the following problems:
• Engine mis-firing while idle
• Returns to idle when accelerating to merge onto freeway
• Reverse camera issues
• Random check engine light
Potential Cause
• Blown Engine
o To diagnose a potential blown engine, Summertop511 suggests using a compression checker to check cylinder compression. All cylinders should be within 15 psi of eachother, otherwise there is a blown engine possibility.
Read below for the full discussion…
Ford F-150 Ecoboost problems limp mode and many other issues
02-01-2013, 11:54 AM
#341
Senior Member
02-01-2013, 01:15 PM
#342
Senior Member
Thread Starter
I'd just like the ability to go through this thread and erase all the bs. I owned three websites that had forums and I sold all three just because I got tired of the baby sitting.. I felt like a prison guard always dealing with people's bs for no reason.
02-02-2013, 10:36 AM
#343
Junior Member
Results from the dealership are: they found no codes for the missing. They do suspect something is wrong with the transmission or rear-end and need me to come back when their transmission/rear-end specialist is working.
Guess I will regap when the snow melts and reschedule with the dealer
Guess I will regap when the snow melts and reschedule with the dealer
02-02-2013, 10:45 AM
#344
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Heck, at least they are honest. Mine tried to blame it on "over sized tires" until I pointed out the ecoboost trucks for sale on their lot with 37" tires on them..
02-11-2013, 03:14 PM
#345
Junior Member
Dropped it off today for them to look at it again. They said there is a TSB to reflash computer and they need to replace two parts. Problem is the parts are on back order and no ETA My truck only seems to misfire/stutter on extremely cold or wet days. Hopefully the parts will be in soon and this will go away. Going to regap the plugs as precautionary measure in the meantime. Still love my Ecoboost despite the minor inconveniences!!!
My truck only seems to misfire/stutter on extremely cold or wet days. Hopefully the parts will be in soon and this will go away. Going to regap the plugs as precautionary measure in the meantime. Still love my Ecoboost despite the minor inconveniences!!!
02-12-2013, 07:19 PM
#346
Another Idiot
If the turbo goes out in a plane you lose the additional performance lost at higher altitudes. In other words, your performance becomes normal. I have lost a turbo in flight--no problem. I have also landed engine out. While the co-pilot was freaking out, I turned and landed at the nearest airport--no problem. Your checkmate was merely a check and I just captured your queen in the process
02-12-2013, 07:38 PM
#347
Young Lady
People call me all the time and say "you were right." It doesn't matter to me what you choose to do or how it works out for you. All I am doing is making a prediction--Ecoboost is a bust!
02-12-2013, 07:59 PM
#348
I am a victim of circumstances
for the first 20,000 miles (plus or minus) I was a Major Ecoboost fan, since then my thoughts of Ford and This engine/truck have changed a little. What would you guys do about this?
Starting around 20k miles my truck started missing while sitting at idle, a random CEL (which would not shop up on a scanner after it went off), a random reverse camera issue where it will not come on (or when it does come on it is black and white and very grainy looking), sometimes while trying to get onto an on ramp and gassing the truck hard it would fall on its face and return to idle (yes, while merging) and you would have to let of the gas and slowly reapply, when traveling at highway speeds the truck would mis or start stuttering and shaking (bad enough the steering wheel would shake up and down at least a 1/2" (it happens in 5th and 6th gear then at about 32k miles the truck would go into limp mode while trying to pull a 6*10 single axle angle top lowboy.
I took it to the shop (on 4/24/12 and had a few small things fixed but all of the above was on a list of problems I provided to the service adviser. A week later (4/30/12) they called me and told me to pick the truck up. I went and got it and on the repair order it said they re flashed the PCM and installed a new cat. On the way back to my office I could feel the mis at highway speeds again, i just took note of it and kept going begin i didnt have time that day to mess with it. That evening after leaving work and trying to get on the interstate it started the return to idle crap and about got me creamed.. The loaner truck I had borrowed while my truck was in the shop was going to be tied up for a few weeks so I couldn't return it to the shop yet. All of this was on 4/30/12.
Thursday (5/3/12) I was headed back to my office from a meeting and my CEL came on again so i pulled into the dealership to see if they could pull a code while the CEL was still on, I was afraid that if the CEL went off it would not store the code like before. They jumped on it and it had three codes (p0300, p0304, and p0430) the tech gave me a print out to bring back when I could leave it again and I left. The print out has a report that says "cylinder 4 misfire detected)
On 5/21/12 I tried to pull a trailer to work with me hauling my lawn mower and the truck went back into limp mode and after about 20 miles it had lost all power.. I knew my Dad was either right in front or behind me so I called him and he come and towed my trailer to work for me. I took the truck back to the dealership that day and dropped it off again, this time i provided the same list to the SA and had updated notes written on it about the things that were fixed and the things that were not fixed. It would probably have happened sooner but my wife had a baby on the 8th and i took a week off of work and then didn't do any outside work the few weekends following.
on 5/29/12 the SA called me and told me I could pick up my truck, I asked her what was wrong with it and she said she didn't know and it was not fixed. As you can imagine I started asking questions. She informed me that Ford wouldn't authorize them to throw any parts at it because they was not sure what was wrong with it but they had a TSB that would be out in 4-6 weeks and that would fix it. I asked her what I was suppose to use for towing in the mean time and she said he didnt know. I then called the service manager and spoke to him about the issue. He told me the same thing and told me they would not be able to give me a loaner vehicle because ford wouldn't pay for it. Because I could drive my truck.
I called ford and started a case and was told the regional rep would contact me in 24 hours.
When the rep called me I was not at my desk so after hearing what she had to say I asked her If could call her back from my office phone. when I first spoke to her she told me that would not give me a loaner vehicle because I could use my truck for it's intended purpose and that the truck was not designed for towing. I about lost it... I told her have you seen a single ecoboost commercial? at this point I asked her If I could retrun her call and record the conversation becaues I was not believeing what she was saying.
Out conversation is below. I called her and told her I was recording and then this started...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ETm...1&feature=plcp
since then I have spoke to three other reps that tell me the same crap and refuse to offer me a vehicle to drive until mine is fixed... i pull a small trailer every week end and they refuse to give a crap but yet they advise me not to drive in limp mode...
here it is in limp mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQqx...2&feature=plcp
This is the new ecoboost outboard edition... sounds like a freaking boat...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTy9m...4&feature=plcp
here is the reverse camera issue... this is after they have already "fixed it' once..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4tEQ...3&feature=plcp
Starting around 20k miles my truck started missing while sitting at idle, a random CEL (which would not shop up on a scanner after it went off), a random reverse camera issue where it will not come on (or when it does come on it is black and white and very grainy looking), sometimes while trying to get onto an on ramp and gassing the truck hard it would fall on its face and return to idle (yes, while merging) and you would have to let of the gas and slowly reapply, when traveling at highway speeds the truck would mis or start stuttering and shaking (bad enough the steering wheel would shake up and down at least a 1/2" (it happens in 5th and 6th gear then at about 32k miles the truck would go into limp mode while trying to pull a 6*10 single axle angle top lowboy.
I took it to the shop (on 4/24/12 and had a few small things fixed but all of the above was on a list of problems I provided to the service adviser. A week later (4/30/12) they called me and told me to pick the truck up. I went and got it and on the repair order it said they re flashed the PCM and installed a new cat. On the way back to my office I could feel the mis at highway speeds again, i just took note of it and kept going begin i didnt have time that day to mess with it. That evening after leaving work and trying to get on the interstate it started the return to idle crap and about got me creamed.. The loaner truck I had borrowed while my truck was in the shop was going to be tied up for a few weeks so I couldn't return it to the shop yet. All of this was on 4/30/12.
Thursday (5/3/12) I was headed back to my office from a meeting and my CEL came on again so i pulled into the dealership to see if they could pull a code while the CEL was still on, I was afraid that if the CEL went off it would not store the code like before. They jumped on it and it had three codes (p0300, p0304, and p0430) the tech gave me a print out to bring back when I could leave it again and I left. The print out has a report that says "cylinder 4 misfire detected)
On 5/21/12 I tried to pull a trailer to work with me hauling my lawn mower and the truck went back into limp mode and after about 20 miles it had lost all power.. I knew my Dad was either right in front or behind me so I called him and he come and towed my trailer to work for me. I took the truck back to the dealership that day and dropped it off again, this time i provided the same list to the SA and had updated notes written on it about the things that were fixed and the things that were not fixed. It would probably have happened sooner but my wife had a baby on the 8th and i took a week off of work and then didn't do any outside work the few weekends following.
on 5/29/12 the SA called me and told me I could pick up my truck, I asked her what was wrong with it and she said she didn't know and it was not fixed. As you can imagine I started asking questions. She informed me that Ford wouldn't authorize them to throw any parts at it because they was not sure what was wrong with it but they had a TSB that would be out in 4-6 weeks and that would fix it. I asked her what I was suppose to use for towing in the mean time and she said he didnt know. I then called the service manager and spoke to him about the issue. He told me the same thing and told me they would not be able to give me a loaner vehicle because ford wouldn't pay for it. Because I could drive my truck.
I called ford and started a case and was told the regional rep would contact me in 24 hours.
When the rep called me I was not at my desk so after hearing what she had to say I asked her If could call her back from my office phone. when I first spoke to her she told me that would not give me a loaner vehicle because I could use my truck for it's intended purpose and that the truck was not designed for towing. I about lost it... I told her have you seen a single ecoboost commercial? at this point I asked her If I could retrun her call and record the conversation becaues I was not believeing what she was saying.
Out conversation is below. I called her and told her I was recording and then this started...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ETm...1&feature=plcp
since then I have spoke to three other reps that tell me the same crap and refuse to offer me a vehicle to drive until mine is fixed... i pull a small trailer every week end and they refuse to give a crap but yet they advise me not to drive in limp mode...
here it is in limp mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQqx...2&feature=plcp
This is the new ecoboost outboard edition... sounds like a freaking boat...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTy9m...4&feature=plcp
here is the reverse camera issue... this is after they have already "fixed it' once..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4tEQ...3&feature=plcp
Back to the beginning. I had this happen to me too--it was a chrysler. After all of these issues I talked to the service manager. I told him I wasn't driving the vehicle until they fixed it. I told him I was going to rent a different vehicle and they were going to pay for it. And they would have too. If I had to file a lawsuit and have a trial, that vehicle is under warranty. If they can't fix it, then replace it. I am not going to get on this Forum and whine about this lengthy bs because I didn't have the ***** to get it handled.
In my case the Service Manager called the factory Rep and explained my position. I left in a rental. They found the problem, fixed it and paid for the rental. If you drive a vehicle that is having mechanical problems and get T-boned and killed, it is no one's fault but yours and your poor judgment. All readers should look at this post: The guy plays the victim of circumstances well, makes poor decisions, blames others and drives an unsafe vehicle, uses poor judgment and whines like a baby. This is nothing more than making a mountain out of a mole hill
02-12-2013, 08:07 PM
#349
Senior Member
Only woman use "we" when they are expressing an individual opinion. As to my narrow-minded opinion, you are incorrect. Turbos have their place. My truck isn't one of them and my truck is not having problems and is not in the dealership. As to zero experience that is only accurate in one respect: Ford has almost zero experience in gas turbos and the system has problems. "Troll" the internet and you can confirm: The dealerships are having problems fixing the problems. They are trying new computer programs, parts are on back orders and "fixes" are being worked on. Ford's great idea doesn't look that good right now and the mileage savings seem to be questionable. I don't believe the idea of more horsepower and saving gas is done without a trade off for increased enging wear.
People call me all the time and say "you were right." It doesn't matter to me what you choose to do or how it works out for you. All I am doing is making a prediction--Ecoboost is a bust!
Research the 2.3L ford and how many we're built and how many reported issues they had also look at how many cars they motors were put in. This is only one motor FYI.
Your biased thoughts are only that "biased"
02-12-2013, 08:08 PM
#350
If the turbo goes out in a plane you lose the additional performance lost at higher altitudes. In other words, your performance becomes normal. I have lost a turbo in flight--no problem. I have also landed engine out. While the co-pilot was freaking out, I turned and landed at the nearest airport--no problem. Your checkmate was merely a check and I just captured your queen in the process
But carry on with your delusions regarding your superior intelligence.
