Seems weird to mention Toyota when all the engines are Subaru and only 20% of the recalled engines were in Toyota branded cars.
Unless I'm reading this wrong, they're replacing valve springs, not entire engines...
Yeah, and they at least have identified the issue, localized it to a range of vehicles and proactively announced a recall to take care of it.
I'd be so pissed if I were you.Update on my motor. I stopped by the dealer and discovered that I not only had the intake valve issue, but also the main bearings are showing significant wear. They are not allowed to take the heads off, so speculation is perhaps a deformed or dislodged valve seat. Again, this is conjecture.
The main bearings however, was a huge surprise to me. I'm religious about adding oil even though the oil consumption is imo abnormal. I never let it get to the lower mark. I would speculate again that this is an oil starvation issue since it shows wear across all of them. It could potentially be bad tolerances as well. This is pretty sad.
I read the engineering response from Ford and it stated that no engineering changes have been made to the motor and that it likely was a careless customer not checking oil. It really put me back when I read that. They don't seem to be owning up to it or its all in secrecy as some of you guys have stated that the oil pan has been revised twice.
I will see what I can observe in terms of part numbers when the new motor arrives.
Update on my motor. I stopped by the dealer and discovered that I not only had the intake valve issue, but also the main bearings are showing significant wear. They are not allowed to take the heads off, so speculation is perhaps a deformed or dislodged valve seat. Again, this is conjecture.
The main bearings however, was a huge surprise to me. I'm religious about adding oil even though the oil consumption is imo abnormal. I never let it get to the lower mark. I would speculate again that this is an oil starvation issue since it shows wear across all of them. It could potentially be bad tolerances as well. This is pretty sad.
I read the engineering response from Ford and it stated that no engineering changes have been made to the motor and that it likely was a careless customer not checking oil. It really put me back when I read that. They don't seem to be owning up to it or its all in secrecy as some of you guys have stated that the oil pan has been revised twice.
I will see what I can observe in terms of part numbers when the new motor arrives.
Update on my motor. I stopped by the dealer and discovered that I not only had the intake valve issue, but also the main bearings are showing significant wear. They are not allowed to take the heads off, so speculation is perhaps a deformed or dislodged valve seat. Again, this is conjecture.
The main bearings however, was a huge surprise to me. I'm religious about adding oil even though the oil consumption is imo abnormal. I never let it get to the lower mark. I would speculate again that this is an oil starvation issue since it shows wear across all of them. It could potentially be bad tolerances as well. This is pretty sad.
I read the engineering response from Ford and it stated that no engineering changes have been made to the motor and that it likely was a careless customer not checking oil. It really put me back when I read that. They don't seem to be owning up to it or its all in secrecy as some of you guys have stated that the oil pan has been revised twice.
I will see what I can observe in terms of part numbers when the new motor arrives.
