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[JaysOnTheEDGE]

i just added 770 miles last week for work. life of a copier tech; so I added a aFe dry flow filter and my mileage went from 21 to 24 MPG on mixed use city/ rural state highways.

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[ALranger]

9900 miles and the truck is currently at the dealer for a misfire. Not 100% sure it's not just bad gas yet. I should know something in the next day or two. Either way, I love this truck.

 

[P. A. Schilke]

9900 miles and the truck is currently at the dealer for a misfire. Not 100% sure it's not just bad gas yet. I should know something in the next day or two. Either way, I love this truck.

Hi Eric,

Bad gas story....My neighbor down the street and I had been friends for many years in Michigan. He is a pure Ford man from the get go. He had his Lincoln towed home from a gas station that he used. Called Knight....cut rate prices and a pretty good volume of traffic. He filled up and got about ¼ mile from the gas station...crappy place. So he called me to help figure out what happened. I walked down to his house where the car was parked on the street, which he never does. Hood up. So he tried to get the car started only to give up... As this was a new EFI 302 engine, I decided to check the fuel rail for fuel. There is a shrader valve on the fuel rail (like a tire pressure valve stem) I took out my pocket knife and depressed the valve stem...out of this fuel rail squirted a white liquid ???? WTF. So I decided this was water mixture...I ran home and got a valve stem removal tool and and pulled the shrader valve. He cranked the motor over until we got the smell of gasoline. Put the sharader valve back and Volia! The motor started. Water in the fuel... Moral of the story...avoid cut rate gas stations in my opinion....

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

 

[ALranger]

Hi Eric,

Bad gas story....My neighbor down the street and I had been friends for many years in Michigan. He is a pure Ford man from the get go. He had his Lincoln towed home from a gas station that he used. Called Knight....cut rate prices and a pretty good volume of traffic. He filled up and got about ¼ mile from the gas station...crappy place. So he called me to help figure out what happened. I walked down to his house where the car was parked on the street, which he never does. Hood up. So he tried to get the car started only to give up... As this was a new EFI 302 engine, I decided to check the fuel rail for fuel. There is a shrader valve on the fuel rail (like a tire pressure valve stem) I took out my pocket knife and depressed the valve stem...out of this fuel rail squirted a white liquid ???? WTF. So I decided this was water mixture...I ran home and got a valve stem removal tool and and pulled the shrader valve. He cranked the motor over until we got the smell of gasoline. Put the sharader valve back and Volia! The motor started. Water in the fuel... Moral of the story...avoid cut rate gas stations in my opinion....

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

Geez, I hope they don't find any white liquid in my fuel line. Gas came from a Chevron, so I'm not too convinced it's the gas yet, but we'll see.

 

[t4thfavor]

29,500 miles. Tons of what I consider major failures (in troubleshooting what shouldn't be a hard fix). My rear brakes are trashed every 500-1000 miles, to which the dealer has been just turning the rotors and telling me "that's all engineering says to do".

Buyback initiated and denied by Ford direct, Initiated buyback through a "lemon law firm" which I hope is the automotive equivalent of the dreaded ambulance chaser attorney's.

 

[Deleted member 1634]

29,500 miles. Tons of what I consider major failures (in troubleshooting what shouldn't be a hard fix). My rear brakes are trashed every 500-1000 miles, to which the dealer has been just turning the rotors and telling me "that's all engineering says to do".

Buyback initiated and denied by Ford direct, Initiated buyback through a "lemon law firm" which I hope is the automotive equivalent of the dreaded ambulance chaser attorney's.

Man, I really feel bad for you. I'm not sure what your issues have been, but either way, that's a sucky way to start with a new vehicle. I had a similar experience with my 2014 Subaru Crosstrek. Plenty of quality issues from the factory that lingered and created other issues over the life of the vehicle. One of the reasons I traded it in for the Ranger so soon. Not a fun 5 years with that thing.

 

[Jacob]

9900 miles and the truck is currently at the dealer for a misfire. Not 100% sure it's not just bad gas yet. I should know something in the next day or two. Either way, I love this truck.

Have them check the spark plugs. I’ve watched a few videos on escapes having issues like that and I guess these ecoboosts can wear through spark plugs like crazy.

 

[JAKE2.3]

Have them check the spark plugs. I’ve watched a few videos on escapes having issues like that and I guess these ecoboosts can wear through spark plugs like crazy.

Or terrible gap. Not sure about the ranger, but notoriously overgapped on the mustang. I took mine out on the mustang, gapped them properly, and they run great now.

 

[t4thfavor]

My first set of Focus ST plugs (bought in 2012) lasted 60K tuned miles. The ones I replace them with in 2014 were toast in 30K. Something changed with Fords Ecoboost plugs from the early ones to the ones they run now and they are much less resilient. And they are notoriously overgapped usually.

 

[Mokume]

This post is a twist in the opposite direction, my 2020 Lariat probably has the lowest mileage accumulated. The truck is just over 5 months old (1/18) and it's only been driven 250 miles!

 

[u wish u could ride]

29,500 miles. Tons of what I consider major failures (in troubleshooting what shouldn't be a hard fix). My rear brakes are trashed every 500-1000 miles, to which the dealer has been just turning the rotors and telling me "that's all engineering says to do".

Buyback initiated and denied by Ford direct, Initiated buyback through a "lemon law firm" which I hope is the automotive equivalent of the dreaded ambulance chaser attorney's.

at that mileage id spring for a new set of rotors and pads on my own dime have them install .

 

[myothercarizahearse]

This post is a twist in the opposite direction, my 2020 Lariat probably has the lowest mileage accumulated. The truck is just over 5 months old (1/18) and it's only been driven 250 miles!

The joys of living in Hawai'i.... nowhere to go

 

[Texasota]

This post is a twist in the opposite direction, my 2020 Lariat probably has the lowest mileage accumulated. The truck is just over 5 months old (1/18) and it's only been driven 250 miles!

That’s terrible and borders on Ranger abuse!

 

[Mokume]

That’s terrible and borders on Ranger abuse!

Could very well be! Now if you'll pardon me, I've some alcohol to abuse....lol

 

[Mokume]

The joys of living in Hawai'i.... nowhere to go

Indeed, one gets tired of going in circles on Oahu, but on the island of Hawaii you can drive a lot further, albeit still in a circle...

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