What to do if your engine build date is within the span of the ones failing?

[Jeremy]

On what to do if your engine build date is within the span of the ones failing?

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[TX_Bronco77]

Drive it until something does, or does not happen.

 

[RagnarKon]

Yeah... gonna have to go with @TX_Bronco77 on this one. Keep driving it until it either breaks or doesn't break. That's about all you can do.

If it breaks, it'll be covered under warranty. If it doesn't break... great! You may get a recall at some point depending on the results of the NHTSA investigation... or you might not. Either way, nothing you can proactively do right now so might as well keep driving it.

 

[Jeremy]

Thank you. Kind of what I thought, but had hoped.

 

[TX_Bronco77]

Thank you. Kind of what I thought, but had hoped.

If you're really worried about it you could bring it into the dealer, reference the failures and have them give it a good once over for external faults. But that won't do any good for some of the failures I've read about, which are internal. So yeah, just drive it like you stole it after the break in period and hope if something shits the bed it's still under warranty.

Just not too hard so if nothing fails you haven't beat your engine to death in the first year.

 

[Bud2020]

Drive it like you stole it.
Get new engine.
Profit.

 

[Headsong]

If you're really worried about it you could bring it into the dealer, reference the failures and have them give it a good once over for external faults. But that won't do any good for some of the failures I've read about, which are internal. So yeah, just drive it like you stole it after the break in period and hope if something shits the bed it's still under warranty.

Just not too hard so if nothing fails you haven't beat your engine to death in the first year.

And always run with a buddy....

 

[da_jokker]

I'm really surprised at the response is so far, nice to see there are some rational people still on this board instead of ones that insist that there is no issue or that the word "warranty" seems to moot the fact that you are either out in BFE or stranded on the side of the road with your whole family for hours.

As others have stated, unfortunately there's nothing you can really do.... You'll never be able to get Ford to replace your engine without it actually breaking first.

So to answer your question, you really only have two choices:

1) Put miles on it making sure you're in a reasonable "safe" recovery situation. (Aka in town)

2) make sure to go with a buddy, and probably stick to off-roading that lends itself to a better recovery (aka, Make sure your buddy can tow you out and you're not in some super difficult trail where towing would be extremely hard).

It's no guarantee, but once you get about 5K miles on the clock, you can start having some confidence. Look at @mpeugeot ... He is right dab in the thick of it, yet has some of the highest mileage on his.

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