2.7L blown engine failure list . . 68 so far [Updated: December 13, 2022]

[navi]

TravisC91, you should lemon law it, then reorder, or do you want to be the fix-ginnea-pig? I can tell you, if my 2.7 fails, I am seriously going to consider a full exit. One of the reasons I bought Bronco was because a) they know how to build trucks, so how could they screw up a Bronco and b) I thought there ecoboosts were bullet proof. So if my engine fails, half of my motivation just died, and I refuse to put my Bronco for 2-3 months on some lot awaiting an engine that first needs to be redesigned...............

Have you ever lemon law returned a vehicle? I have not, but my concern is that you will still end up with a few thousand in lost fees, add-ons, ESP, maintenance package etc.

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[VictoryLights]

@Ford Motor Company needs to acknowledge this and give us some feedback.

 

[Snowdogyyz]

Should’ve seen the crap from half the forum when @mpeugeot started original thread to collect data. Where’d they go??

Oh they’re still around. Just getting a little more quiet as data builds.

 

[Carolina Jim]

One of the reasons I bought Bronco was because a) they know how to build trucks, so how could they screw up a Bronco and b) I thought there ecoboosts were bullet proof.

If any of you guys are on the Lightning Forum, you might want to give those folks in a hurry to buy Ford's new science experiment a heads-up on how their core offerings are holding up

 

[VictoryLights]

Update: Today the dealer called me and said he can't order a new engine because the Ford engineers need time to redesign it. So it's gonna be a while.

This can’t be real.

 

[VictoryLights]

If it is a design issue wouldn't there be more failures besides the ones were seeing built June-August '21 ??

I wonder how many 2.7s outside of this window have even been delivered.

 

[mountainbronco]

If any of you guys are on the Lightning Forum, you might want to give those folks in a hurry to buy Ford's new science experiment a heads-up on how their core offerings are holding up

I am not on that forum but have a reservation......................

 

[International_George]

They will almost certainly give you an extended warranty for this kind of failure. They reached out to me on here and doubled my warranty length after my coolant hose issue, in addition to reimbursing my trip expenses.

I bet @flip could confirm whether these engines are on an engineering hold.

Did you already have the extended warranty? How long was yours in the shop?

 

[navi]

I wonder how many 2.7s outside of this window have even been delivered.

Wouldn't many thousands of 2.7's have been delivered? Ford only stopped building them recently and there's no 2.7 dirt mountain with 15,000 vehicles...that we know of.
Right?

 

[Aviboy97]

Are we sure this relegated to only July-August builds? I thought I saw someone with a November build that went kaboom

 

[SPITmadFIRE]

Are we sure this relegated to only July-August builds? I thought I saw someone with a November build that went kaboom

November engine production date? Or November blend date for the vehicle? The engines are not produced the same time the vehicle itself is.

 

[jwoobs]

And people gave me crap for being so adamantly in favor of the 2.3L

I know there are several Focus RS owners on the forum. Despite using basically the same engine as the Mustang 2.3L I4, Ford just had to go and tweak it, and in the process ended up putting the wrong head gasket on several thousand of them.

So track record means nothing when it comes to Ford motors, even if the same basic design is bulletproof when used in another application.

 

[TravisC91]

Man, new Ford response now . .

- how's it going w engine ser# ?
- if too much hassle asking Service Dept, it may be easier w last-8 digits of VIN, if you like, our Ford rep can lookup engine ser# in OASIS

After getting the call from them today I told them I'd swing by tomorrow, I'll get that info then.

 

[cashgolfer44]

I keep reading through all the comments and just cringe..... I have a 2.7 2 door badlands with a build date of 8/12 but then it sat at Dirt Mountain till the end of November for a new hard top. My Bronco was delivered on 12/22 but I was immediately told they couldn't sell it to me because it is one of the Bronco's that has a defective passenger side airbag. Which they still have not been able to get a replacement for. So there it sits in the dealer showroom, waiting for me to find out if I have a bad engine or not. Sigh............... Maybe that will be a good thing, might know more about the issue and possible future updates from Ford. Knowing how Ford communicates.....probably not. LOL

 

[SPITmadFIRE]

I know there are several Focus RS owners on the forum. Despite using basically the same engine as the Mustang 2.3L I4, Ford just had to go and tweak it, and in the process ended up putting the wrong head gasket on several thousand of them.

So track record means nothing when it comes to Ford motors, even if the same basic design is bulletproof when used in another application.

Focus RS owner here who got a mustang gasket swapped out a few thousand miles in AMA

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