I think it’s important to remember that most of the theories in this thread are blind guesses, or at most educated guesses based on very little information.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no Ford apologist or fanboy, and if my own engine needed a full replacement within the first year of ownership, on my first Ford vehicle, I’d sell it ASAP and never buy another Ford product.
Still, there’s a lot of alarmism in this thread. As laypeople without access to important details like fleetwide statistics & diagnostics, physical inspection of failed components, diagnostic logs, knowledge of supply chain etc… there’s only so much that can be deduced from the 30 or so data points that we have. But who has access to the information that is needed to actually figure out what’s going on? Ford.
Many of the conclusions that are being drawn in here so far aren’t much more than superstition. “Oh no, there was a failure from a date on which the moon was in the same phase as the date on which my engine was manufactured… I’m sure that means my engine is more likely to fail and I shouldn’t be daily driving it anymore!” I’m not faulting these conclusions too much, because as humans we try to find patterns in and reason with whatever information we have. But logical fallacies abound when we don’t apply enough discipline and allow panic or emotion or fear to affect our analysis.
ok, nah
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