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Ford F-150: Engine Lineup
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<blockquote data-quote="svtfocus2cobra" data-source="post: 16300692" data-attributes="member: 21786"><p>What they need is a lot of preventative maintenance just like pretty much all newer engines do. Most people dont take well enough care of their vehicles and then they brake down and it gets blamed on the engines. There are definitely design flaws no doubt but with a lot of Ford's engines a lot of the ones we see come in with major issues could have probably been prevented if they were taken care of better. The 3V 5.4s for example, fail because oil changes aren't done regularly and the oil eventually doesn't reach where it needs to and so that is why the cam phasers have issues and the motors need to be replaced. I have customers with 3V motors who have a 100-200k miles on them and they change the oil religiously using only certain oils and filters and they dont have a single tick when it runs. The same goes for a lot of these EB motors. You really need to be in tune with what is going on with it and you need to change the timing chain at 65-75k miles because those are proving to be a problem too but that is a regular service interval item that needs to be paid attention to.</p><p></p><p>Most cars with issues that come in could have been avoided if people did real maintenance but we obviously know that people aren't like that and will let things break first before they fix them. You have to be pretty anal to be on top of all of it, and vehicles to an extent should be trouble free for the owners.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svtfocus2cobra, post: 16300692, member: 21786"] What they need is a lot of preventative maintenance just like pretty much all newer engines do. Most people dont take well enough care of their vehicles and then they brake down and it gets blamed on the engines. There are definitely design flaws no doubt but with a lot of Ford's engines a lot of the ones we see come in with major issues could have probably been prevented if they were taken care of better. The 3V 5.4s for example, fail because oil changes aren't done regularly and the oil eventually doesn't reach where it needs to and so that is why the cam phasers have issues and the motors need to be replaced. I have customers with 3V motors who have a 100-200k miles on them and they change the oil religiously using only certain oils and filters and they dont have a single tick when it runs. The same goes for a lot of these EB motors. You really need to be in tune with what is going on with it and you need to change the timing chain at 65-75k miles because those are proving to be a problem too but that is a regular service interval item that needs to be paid attention to. Most cars with issues that come in could have been avoided if people did real maintenance but we obviously know that people aren't like that and will let things break first before they fix them. You have to be pretty anal to be on top of all of it, and vehicles to an extent should be trouble free for the owners. [/QUOTE]
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