Ecoboost Engine Blown?

[marjen]

This is very disappointing to hear how ford is responding to these issues. There are several ecoboosts now blown. Some with mods, some without. It seems there is some sort of piston issue that needs to be addressed. Also seems to be related to hard acceleration in 6th gear? Those two issues seem common to all the failures and given the differences in mods, seems the mods have nothing to do with the issues faced by these customers.

Ford should not be able to just deny a claim IF there are other examples of the issue (which there are) and without proving the mod caused the problem. How could a CAI cause the pistons to break apart? Or an exhaust? Or if 10 cars engines blew and one had a CAI and one had an exhaust and one had a tune but none the same thing done, that points to another problem. That is troubleshooting 101.

Hope they are trying not to sweep this under the rug and make customers pay for their mistakes.

I had a tune on my car (MAP). ran fine for about 8k miles. Took it off because I had to get a recall done and I have just been too lazy to put it back on, but now I might not. I have 24k on my ecoboost. No issues that I know of, but these stories are a little scary.

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[Jewishthunder]

Ford should not be able to just deny a claim IF there are other examples of the issue (which there are) and without proving the mod caused the problem. How could a CAI cause the pistons to break apart? Or an exhaust? Or if 10 cars engines blew and one had a CAI and one had an exhaust and one had a tune but none the same thing done, that points to another problem. That is troubleshooting 101.

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How could a CAI blow a piston? It could easily do that if it wasn't tuned properly. It could run the car lean, causing pre-det, or real det. Then boom.

Ford isn't responsible for these motors when they're not stock. You're giving up that right for them to be responsible once you mod your car.

 

[marjen]

Ford isn't responsible for these motors when they're not stock. You're giving up that right for them to be responsible once you mod your car.

I only agree if there is evidence that the mod caused the issue. But again if you have engines blowing up and all either have different mods or no mods, then its a good chance its not the mods. If ford used crappy roads that can't hold up to the day to day and are killing engines ford needs to take that responsibility.

 

[Jewishthunder]

I only agree if there is evidence that the mod caused the issue. But again if you have engines blowing up and all either have different mods or no mods, then its a good chance its not the mods. If ford used crappy roads that can't hold up to the day to day and are killing engines ford needs to take that responsibility.

If you mod your motor, or anything that feeds to the motor, there's no reason Ford should warranty your motor.

Plain and simple, if you don't want the responsibility of replacing your motor, don't modify it. Then if it's stock and it pops, they'll have no reason not to fix it.

 

[Asharus]

i can't believe the amount of people out there thinking that ford would warranty a modded engine.

 

[Blk2015GT]

i can't believe the amount of people out there thinking that ford would warranty a modded engine.

Entitlement syndrome in this era.

 

[2015 Silver GT]

Entitlement syndrome in this era.

This unfortunately is spot on.

 

[Dirtleg]

25 pages of "I don't have time to read all this" later have we learned anything yet?

Were any of the Blown Up engines on a 100% stock car? As in zero modifications or add on modules/tunes.

I'm truly curious just too busy to read this whole thread.

 

[Mattrix]

25 pages of "I don't have time to read all this" later have we learned anything yet?

We've learned some things for sure.

1. I'm a moron
2. I'm the laughing stock of the forums
3. I should /wrists

Other than that there are accounts of motors blowing the same way with and without mods. A lot of people do not post of visit forums so who knows how many there really are out there. The more I talk to people in the industry the more I hear about how these motors are not to be trusted as reliable. As time goes on more and more info will come out about them. I'll still be the same moron though that modded his car and took it to the dealership that way. I should of towed it home and returned to stock, it would've taken me less than an hour to do it. Now it is going to cost me $6700 if they can ever get the parts in. There is no eta for a fuel pump and some hose.

I've learned my lesson and will just continue to monitor others issues and maybe someday Ford will admit the problem and issue a recall. Otherwise I'm out the cash and it is what it is, a costly learning experience. What is hurting the most though is reading in other threads about how much of a idiot I am.

 

[Dirtleg]

We've learned some things for sure.

1. I'm a moron
2. I'm the laughing stock of the forums
3. I should /wrists

Other than that there are accounts of motors blowing the same way with and without mods. A lot of people do not post of visit forums so who knows how many there really are out there. The more I talk to people in the industry the more I hear about how these motors are not to be trusted as reliable. As time goes on more and more info will come out about them. I'll still be the same moron though that modded his car and took it to the dealership that way. I should of towed it home and returned to stock, it would've taken me less than an hour to do it. Now it is going to cost me $6700 if they can ever get the parts in. There is no eta for a fuel pump and some hose.

I've learned my lesson and will just continue to monitor others issues and maybe someday Ford will admit the problem and issue a recall. Otherwise I'm out the cash and it is what it is, a costly learning experience. What is hurting the most though is reading in other threads about how much of a idiot I am.

Man I wasn't trying to ridicule you in any way. And don't think you're the only one who's ever done this. I've replaced a number of headgaskets and once created a boat anchor for similar reasons. (Piston had melted and clad itself to the cylinder wall)

Sorry you've had to go through this. It will get better. Always does.

 

[Joe_Stang]

We've learned some things for sure.

1. I'm a moron
2. I'm the laughing stock of the forums
3. I should /wrists

Other than that there are accounts of motors blowing the same way with and without mods. A lot of people do not post of visit forums so who knows how many there really are out there. The more I talk to people in the industry the more I hear about how these motors are not to be trusted as reliable. As time goes on more and more info will come out about them. I'll still be the same moron though that modded his car and took it to the dealership that way. I should of towed it home and returned to stock, it would've taken me less than an hour to do it. Now it is going to cost me $6700 if they can ever get the parts in. There is no eta for a fuel pump and some hose.

I've learned my lesson and will just continue to monitor others issues and maybe someday Ford will admit the problem and issue a recall. Otherwise I'm out the cash and it is what it is, a costly learning experience. What is hurting the most though is reading in other threads about how much of a idiot I am.

Don't feel bad I have to come out of pocket for mine as well. It is what it is there are no guarantees when it comes to trusting ford to replace the motor with mods. They could have still denied it if you returned it to stock and if they found a trace that you were modded. The entire point of this thread is to help people with understanding that if you mod your car you are at a risk to lose your warranty. Just because a few people get lucky and get away with it doesn't mean everyone will. Don't be upset or mad about the issue just move forward like I am. Money can be replaced

 

[Mattrix]

You did nothing wrong man, I deserve what I get from the others. Thank you though for the support, I appreciate it.

 

[Rough Hollow Man]

Life is nothing if not a series of " learning experiences".

 

[kz]

We've learned some things for sure.

1. I'm a moron
2. I'm the laughing stock of the forums
3. I should /wrists

Other than that there are accounts of motors blowing the same way with and without mods. A lot of people do not post of visit forums so who knows how many there really are out there. The more I talk to people in the industry the more I hear about how these motors are not to be trusted as reliable. As time goes on more and more info will come out about them. I'll still be the same moron though that modded his car and took it to the dealership that way. I should of towed it home and returned to stock, it would've taken me less than an hour to do it. Now it is going to cost me $6700 if they can ever get the parts in. There is no eta for a fuel pump and some hose.

I've learned my lesson and will just continue to monitor others issues and maybe someday Ford will admit the problem and issue a recall. Otherwise I'm out the cash and it is what it is, a costly learning experience. What is hurting the most though is reading in other threads about how much of a idiot I am.

So you're saying next time time you're just going to plain try to cheat / lie and what you should have done ?

I think you're the victim of the big industry telling people "tunes are safe". They believe in that because they want to. I have a problem with people saying somebody should return the car to stock and go try to pretend engine was never modified. At the end we all - being Ford customers - pay for people that took the risk to modify if their warranty gets approved only because their plain liars.

 

[stoli]

I only agree if there is evidence that the mod caused the issue.

You don't have to agree, but you aren't going to change Ford's decision either. People want to wave MagMoss around, but do you really know anyone who has been successful with that? It wasn't intended to be used to defend aftermarket performance parts, but aftermarket alternatives to oem parts.

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