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#361
fretter said:
Could it depend on the driver?
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No, it was a junk design from the get go.

By 2010 or so they switched to a MLS gasket and failures were greatly reduced.

And somewhere around 2012 they ditched the timing belt and went to a chain...... and at the same time they switched from 5W30 oil to 0W20..... and then the oil consumption issues surfaced.

My 2013 Forester was drinking oil at 25k. I never thought much of it until I found out there was a warranty on the engines up to 100k.

Well, I rolled my 13 in at 99k, it failed the consumption test and I got a free engine under warranty. The Service Manager said that I was about 250 miles away from the limit and I said that I wanted my money's worth from the original one.
 
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#362
To tell truth with the Toy Taco and the Buru Baja I was experiencing no problems at all, engine or otherwise. Was just getting concerned, so asked my nechanic and he said "I didn't realize! Prob a good idea to get that all changed out!" So did. I'm pretty hard on cars as far as I like to go fast. One of the joys of living on q101 Oregon/N Cali coast. = Tyco Ryco! ☮️
 
#363
Mike N said:
No, it was a junk design from the get go.

By 2010 or so they switched to a MLS gasket and failures were greatly reduced.

And somewhere around 2012 they ditched the timing belt and went to a chain...... and at the same time they switched from 5W30 oil to 0W20..... and then the oil consumption issues surfaced.

My 2013 Forester was drinking oil at 25k. I never thought much of it until I found out there was a warranty on the engines up to 100k.

Well, I rolled my 13 in at 99k, it failed the consumption test and I got a free engine under warranty. The Service Manager said that I was about 250 miles away from the limit and I said that I wanted my money's worth from the original one.
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I've poured a lot of oil into our 2014, mostly after driving hilly terrain. Never bothered me too much.
 
#364
fretter said:
I've poured a lot of oil into our 2014, mostly after driving hilly terrain. Never bothered me too much.
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Our 13 drinking oil never bothered me, at least I knew there was always clean oil in the engine.

It wasn't until my service manager mentioned the warranty to me that I considered it to be an issue...... so I took part of the warranty and wound up with a new engine at 99k.

When I did get the car back, within a day the Check Engine light came on with a lean code. Rather that go back to the dealer, I looked at it myself and found they never tightened down the EGR tube to the throttle body. In addition, the upper radiator bracket bolts were loose, the ground wires from the frame to the heads were never reattached...... took me all of 30 minutes to fix their mistakes..... didn't feel like dealing with them again so I did it myself.
 
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#365
This is NOT a truck, don't care what they call it. Looks more like someone got an F in metal shop.


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Fun weekend doing Truck Things.
I needed to figure out why I was getting DTCs about the trailer brake controller. I had looked at the DTC and read a little on it when I first brought it home (it was one of the known issues with the previous owner, and one I leveraged to get the truck cheaper) - it ranges from bad TBC, corroded or otherwise mangled wiring, or a bad 7 pin on the truck. Didn't want to deal with it then, because I didn't have an immediate towing need so it was easy enough to stop caring about. Finally had some hauling coming up and needed to look into it.
The first thing I did was just check voltages at the 7-pin. Nada. I skipped the crawl under the truck and went to the fuse box. Checked the fuse for the TBC, it was fine. Replaced it anyway just for giggles, but of course, no luck.
Chased down through all the electric for a couple of hours. Took a brake (heh, heh) from it and went to look up schematics. Turns out, there's two fuses for the TBC - one for the module itself, and the other (the one I had checked) is for brake signal and turn signaling. Ugh. Crawl back under the dash and ... that 2nd fuse was missing entirely. My guess, as much as I can put one together, is someone popped the fuse at one point or another and just never replaced it? I could almost understand a popped fuse being in there, but since it was missing entirely, someone intentionally did that.

Grab another 5A fuse, toss it in, the DTC for the controller immediately heals. Interestingly, so does my reverse sensor DTC (another one I was going to fix "someday").

Feeling a little dumb that it was just a fuse in the end, but, also glad it wasn't something more annoying. Hooked it up to a trailer and didn't have an issue with it all day though. There's a few settings for my controller which I need to read up more on - the normal gain amount to adjust, a three "initial output" setting, and a setting specifically for electric-over-hydraulics (which, none of the trailers I'd use have anyway).

The built in engine/exhaust brake is really cool too. First pickup that I've had with it, and turning it on while descending a grade is very nice. Plus the turbo geometry changes and you get some really pleasant turbo-whistle going :D
 
#370
Selta said:
About to go do a contortionist act getting up under my dash to find the wiring for my upfitter/aux switches. Wish me luck :D
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Those wires are fun to access, iirc they're above the parking brake pedal and Ford didn't leave a whole lot of extra wire to attach things to. I fitted auxiliary lights on my buddy's 2016 F350 and the worst part was getting under the dash to connect those wires.

Thankfully the last F350 I added lights to (2022 diesel dually) had the wires under the hood for the aux switches.
 
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Pilgrim said:
Haven't had a truck since 1996...no use for one. Two BMW 3-series (one each for me and my wife), a 280ZX and a Jeep Grand Cherokee.

My sister is a recently retired relief veterinarian in WA and has a '93 Tacoma with close to 500,000 miles on it. It's over 475K now.
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I have had vans for a long time now. There are only a few times a truck would be more useful than a van, and a lot of times when a van is more useful. Someday, I would really like a 1950s or so era panel truck built into a daily driver with modern running gear. Someday won't happen, so I'll keep driving the van.
 
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MJ5150 said:
I did, in July. I figured I wouldn't need it. I don't know why I figured that as I figured wrong. I still have the money from the one I sold, so I'll hang on to it and get another Ram or a 80-90's F-250 longbox 4x4 later.

-Mike
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Lots of rusty junk around the northeast, Mike.

Maybe go out of state to find something salt free.
 
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