I cleaned mine on my 2007 cvpi, definitely a noticeable improvement, although not sure on mpg. Mine was pretty black with 110k miles and 2500 hrs.
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My 2018 Fusion Hybrid SE had a blend door problem and a bad blower motor. After market blower and thermostat, they said to change both, blower motor kept cutting of so I had to use a Ford thermostat. The after market blower seems to be fine now with the OEM thermostat.
In my car (2021 Mach E AWD with standard battery), the battery state of health the first time I checked it was around 94% at around 48,000 kilometers. I’m not sure how accurate the car’s data is because it seemed to drop a percentage or so immediately after a couple of OTA updates. It sat at around 92% until between 80,000 km and 113,000 km, but now it’s says 92.5% at 120,000 km. Again, I’m not entirely confident at how accurate the car’s information is, but my range is still about the same as when it was brand new. I think I’m past any danger of manufacturing defects, so I don’t have any reason to suspect that the battery won’t easily last a couple hundred of thousand kilometers more.
Stuck starter solenoid. It's super easy to change on Fords should be located on the passenger side fender support.
I had a 2007 Taurus. Oil leakage was the main issue. Get it up on a rack at your favorite service shop and get the oil leaks taken care of. Oil filter is above the starter, so if you are having starter issues, look to see if there is an oil leak on the starter.
Stock Ford ones were $9 a piece at my local dealer…
Awful design by Ford to put the water pump inside the engine. I almost bought one of these used a few years ago, but backed out after reading about 3-4k jobs to replace a water pump at 180-100k miles.
Pretty sure this is the motor that needs the engine dropped to do waterpump and timing components. Bad bad design
The 3.5 5th generation Explorer has an internal water pump driven by the timing chain. It’s an enormous pain to change requiring significant disassembly (nearly 12 hours of labor) and generally includes replacing the timing chain in the process since you’re already in there, plus when it fails it can easily mix the coolant with the oil and destroy the engine, all that’s keeping them apart is a little seal.
At 70,000miles it started making a water sound right after turning it off. Months later I noticed a white smoke coming from the tail pipe. One day it gave me that code and started sputtering. Turns out the head gasket had cracked and was letting coolant into my engine pistons. It flooded it. I needed a whole engine replaced.
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