Hey guys I just wanted to post up info I havent read about or seen yet.

Last year I had the recall done by Ford Dealership to install new grey cps and up until last week no issues. I have gone through a ton of stuff on my truck trying to track down why my truck is now starting to miss at different RPMs as well as the biggie...... extended crank time (5-10 secs when normal is 1-3 secs)

So today I installed my old black cps and all is well.

I was curious how dealership would deal with me because i in fact had a failed recalled part. I flat out told service manager I had a failed part and would like a new one to keep in my glove box. VERY simple request in my book. He told me to put it back in a bring it back and they would have to keep the truck. Umm no thanks I had a simple request and thats not it. Its all about liability and not customer service. This one tiny thing has made me turn my back on buying a new truck.

I know this is a $30 part and totally not worth the hastle but the one time they worked on my truck was for this recall. My black cps would last around 4-5 years while the "new and improved" grey lasted 1 year 8 months.

So long story short I left my messed up GREY cps with dealer and told them to only call me if they had a new one to hand to me.

Thanks for listening to my rant

 

I've had much better luck with the black CPS. I've never had one fail but the engine runs better with the black one.

 

Dealer handed me new grey cps after 2 days of giving me the run around.

In meantime I ordered "improved" international cps to give that color a try

 

I haven't played with the newest version, but there have been many threads about the gray recall CPS being a worse than the originals in terms of rough idle, slight miss, failed CCT. Some even reported a drop in mpg's with the gray cps.

Let us know how the newest one does for you. Be sure to compare it to the newest one Ford gave you. I thought Ford had the latest flavor also now.

 

Travis been running the IH one as well as a few other guys,
Huge thread on it here someplace.

 

Ya I read into a bunch of cps threads. I installed internationals dark grey cps and I couldn't tell a noticeable difference. So I now have an original black AND fords light grey in glove box

I will be happy if this part lasts longer than 1.5 years and proves itself reliable.

 

No kidding! I've been lucky then. Although, I think I did get mine from IH.

 

Did the recall on mine about six month ago,no problem yet.
Jim