7 Stupid Ford (EcoBoost) Engine Habits that are KILLING your Turbo

[timhood]

FYI, Ford factory Air filter sucks bag of shit. Less than 3k miles on road driving, its already full of dirt and deformed. Good job Jim Fartley!!!

Highly recommend quality good aftermarket drop in filter.

Doesn’t it being full of dirt mean it was doing its job?

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[Bugrad1990]

So a banana in the tailpipe is a bad thing??

We’re not falling for the banana in the tailpipe.

 

[Willub]

FYI, Ford factory Air filter sucks bag of shit. Less than 3k miles on road driving, its already full of dirt and deformed. Good job Jim Fartley!!!

Highly recommend quality good aftermarket drop in filter.

Is it supposed to let dirt through? Why is your on road air so dirty? What made you check it?

 

[Beach_Bum]

FYI, Ford factory Air filter sucks bag of shit. Less than 3k miles on road driving, its already full of dirt and deformed. Good job Jim Fartley!!!

Highly recommend quality good aftermarket drop in filter.

Doesn’t it being full of dirt mean it was doing its job?

Quoting for continuity. Tim is stating the obvious - the OEM filter is working fine. Just because it may not look visually appealing with the pleats deforming and trapping dirt doesn't mean it isn't effective. Now, if the inner core's exterior surface had dirt, then obviously that would indicate dirt is getting by the outer filter pleats and the filter is defective or the seal wasn't properly seated.

 

[userdude]

At the risk of belaboring this divergence from the topic, I'll finalize with these thoughts:

The term "planned obsolescence" is overused. It implies that substandard design and manufacturing is by choice of desiring a reduced life of the final product rather than engineering or production incompetence, or simply allowing for evolving improvements. True planned obsolescence requires cooperation among competitors, or in the very least, a market that won't tolerate the additional costs required to make a substantially improved product. Certainly beginning in the late '60s through the '80s, U.S. auto manufacturers believed they would always control the U.S. market, and that where foreign competition would exist, it would represent only a minority of market share.

While early Asian auto products were cheaper than U.S. products, initially, they were often lower quality, trading a cheaper cost for an inferior product. Autos lacked features and performed poorly in NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness), but the motors lasted well. Those early products were crappy cars that wouldn't die (relatively speaking). This allowed Asian manufacturers a chance to gain a foothold and build market share, eventually improving quality of the rest of the vehicle.

Today, U.S. manufacturers are forced to compete with foreign products because the U.S. consumer will not tolerate inferiority just because the manufacturer is a U.S. company. The discussion becomes too complicated regarding the reasons why some U.S. products fall short of foreign competition, but there are plenty of examples where U.S. products are as good or better than foreign (even Asian) products. The bottom line is that any auto manufacturer must build a vehicle that is reasonably reliable for the current standard, with features and a price comparable to competitors. When a manufacturer earns a reputation for failing to meet those criteria, it loses market share and risks extinction. Planned obsolescence now means planned extinction.

And to redirect this back on topic, several of the points made in that AI-generated video aren't even valid for modern turbo-charged motors. Some of the others are generic advice that applies to any vehicle.

I like how you rephrased what I said, only made it more boring. I don't know what circles you run in, but I don't ever hear anyone bring up this topic and was surprised to see it here. Whatever! Once bitten, twice shy.

 

[Leafy]

This video didn’t even catch the thing most people are doing that’s the worst, using below 91 octane fuel. I don’t have a get gauge but I can tell you the 87 engine tune has higher egts. It runs more boost and significantly lower timing on 87 than 93, both have cause higher exhaust gas temperatures. Higher egts obviously reduce the life of the turbo itself and the exhaust valves, but also much of the rest of the engine. If you care enough to do oil changes at 50% life, you should probably run 93 to reduce the engine wear.

 

[65CarryAll]

This video didn’t even catch the thing most people are doing that’s the worst, using below 91 octane fuel. I don’t have a get gauge but I can tell you the 87 engine tune has higher egts. It runs more boost and significantly lower timing on 87 than 93, both have cause higher exhaust gas temperatures. Higher egts obviously reduce the life of the turbo itself and the exhaust valves, but also much of the rest of the engine. If you care enough to do oil changes at 50% life, you should probably run 93 to reduce the engine wear.

Agreed. The more fuel an engine burns per mile the more byproducts, oil dilution, carbon build up, wear, ect. it produces. The extra cost of premium is worth it to me to minimize these things. The exrta MPG covers part of the cost and the increased performance is a bonus.

 

[Fatfireman]

My favorite part of this AI-driven video is when he talked about the F "one hundred and fifty" truck's towing capability. Maybe there's a part of the country I'm not aware of where people pronounce it that way?

It also said its a great "tower" like a tall building just before the F- one hundred and fifty. Hilarious

 

[heavyD]

FYI, Ford factory Air filter sucks bag of shit. Less than 3k miles on road driving, its already full of dirt and deformed. Good job Jim Fartley!!!

Highly recommend quality good aftermarket drop in filter.

An oiled K&N may look nice and clean at 3k miles but that's because your engine ingested all the dirt and dust that the OEM filter was collecting.

 

[DaddyO]

So a banana in the tailpipe is a bad thing??

try potatoes instead

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