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Any other V6 owners have major engine failure?

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Yup I had that back at 6500 miles.
 

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Just a bad throttle body as well when I had mine.
 

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Not seeing any major failures in the 3.7 or any of it's smaller displacement variants. These are also widely used in the Mazda CX7/CX9 etc. with no known issues.
 

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Its typically a freak incident when a 3.7 takes a dump like that. When you think of the hundreds of thousands.. maybe even millions of 3.5/3.7s out there.. your bound to get a bad apple every now and then....but over all they are pretty damn bullet proof...especially stock, or basic bolt ones.
 

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65,000 Miles here and still going strong. Mass manufactured vehicles will always have those few odd ball failures due to defective parts that pass through the inspection processes.
 

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Only thing that would consider failure and scared the **** out of me was my throttle body giving out. my car went straight into limp mode in a parking lot one night. got the car home safely, sounded like a go kart the whole way lol.
 

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Seems like it has been for a number of people. Im at 16k, no issues
 
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I'm told i will have a new engine in 7-10 days. The tech says there is a lower end knock. They have not told me yet what failed.
 

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Sorry for your hassle and please give us the "post mortem"... I've been lucky with these 3.7
Cyclone engines...truck had 169,000 and Mazda 6 has 134,000 and Mustang has 10,000 with no problems whatsoever. I insist on using full synthetic Royal Purple motor oil in all my vehicles maybe that helps longevity.
 

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I'm at 33k miles and my only issue is that stupid transmission. All they do is a reset of the KAM and learning system... I'm getting tired of their BS. twice I brought the car for that! It's starting again from time to time! I'm so tired of AT. I used to drive MT all the time and I never had any issue with my other Mustang. I took this one AT to have fun with the paddle shift but it's not worth it at all!
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