ENGINE BOGGING DOWN
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ENGINE BOGGING DOWN
I'm a new Ford owner and my 2012 F250 is my first diesel. Recently, my truck has been having a problem with the engine loosing power, bogging down, shaking-pinging, every once in a while, like 1-2 times a week. When it happens, I can barely get the truck to do 50 MPH. It sometimes happens when the "cleaning exhaust filter" message is displayed, but also happens when it's not displayed. I recently read on the internet about HPFD failures. Can anyone on here shed some light on what may be happening to my truck? Could it need Cetane booster? Also, how about scheduled maintenance. The owners manual (diesel supplement) says to do the maintenance once the message center says to change oil soon. The dealers here in AZ are pretty much saying 5 months or 7,500 miles. On my other trucks (which were gas), I would stick to what the owner manuals said because I thought how could they deny a warranty claim if you're sticking to what the manual says. Thoughts? Thanks.
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I would bring it back to the dealer when its doing it and let them diagnose it. As for oil changes I run all my fords using the "severe service" section of the manual. I would listen to what the manual says personally.
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I'm a new Ford owner and my 2012 F250 is my first diesel. Recently, my truck has been having a problem with the engine loosing power, bogging down, shaking-pinging, every once in a while, like 1-2 times a week. When it happens, I can barely get the truck to do 50 MPH. It sometimes happens when the "cleaning exhaust filter" message is displayed, but also happens when it's not displayed. I recently read on the internet about HPFD failures. Can anyone on here shed some light on what may be happening to my truck? Could it need Cetane booster? Also, how about scheduled maintenance. The owners manual (diesel supplement) says to do the maintenance once the message center says to change oil soon. The dealers here in AZ are pretty much saying 5 months or 7,500 miles. On my other trucks (which were gas), I would stick to what the owner manuals said because I thought how could they deny a warranty claim if you're sticking to what the manual says. Thoughts? Thanks.
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I'm a new Ford owner and my 2012 F250 is my first diesel. Recently, my truck has been having a problem with the engine loosing power, bogging down, shaking-pinging, every once in a while, like 1-2 times a week. When it happens, I can barely get the truck to do 50 MPH. It sometimes happens when the "cleaning exhaust filter" message is displayed, but also happens when it's not displayed. I recently read on the internet about HPFD failures. Can anyone on here shed some light on what may be happening to my truck? Could it need Cetane booster? Also, how about scheduled maintenance. The owners manual (diesel supplement) says to do the maintenance once the message center says to change oil soon. The dealers here in AZ are pretty much saying 5 months or 7,500 miles. On my other trucks (which were gas), I would stick to what the owner manuals said because I thought how could they deny a warranty claim if you're sticking to what the manual says. Thoughts? Thanks.
Sounds like you're having a serious issue. I haven't had the problem you're describing. I would definately get the dealer involved. I hope you get resolution soon. Keep us up dated.
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About how many miles on your 2012 SD? Have you checked the water separator yet? Have you changed your fuel filters?
IMHO...sounds like you may have a higher percent of water in your fuel...
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IMHO...sounds like you may have a higher percent of water in your fuel...
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That's basically one of my questions, what in the manual do I go by as far as scheduled maintenance. The manual says to change the oil "when the change oil soon message comes on", and also has the severe service explanation. I don't fit all the requirements for the severe service. I don't tow alot (maybe 1-2 times a month at the most), don't drive on alot of hills. But, the parts that I do fit are dusty conditions (both here in Phoenix and sometimes driving on dirt roads), and more than normal idiling due to some city driving. I guess it wouldn't hurt anything to just go by the severe service requirements.
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6,695 miles, bought in January 2012. I haven't checked the water separator yet nor have I changed fuel filters. If you drain the fuel/water separator do you need to change out the fuel filters?
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You do not need to change filters. I use a mason jar to collect a sample.just open valve and catch it.let it sit about a hour and look at bottom of jar.if there is water you will see it seperated from the fuel.
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I changed both fuel filters because it seemed that it was starving for fuel when it went into the regen cycle. No so. Hopefully the Insight will collect enough info for the next time we visit the dealer.
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I have mentioned several times on FTE that my truck is very sensitive to the quality of fuel.
One time I filled up at an Exxon station and after 5 miles I was going over the Kemah TX bridge and the truck started pinging, bucking and almost stalled out. Couldn't get up to 45 MPH.
I was using Power Service Silver and found no water in the seperator. No WIF light. Got through that tank by topping it off every day (and avoided the highway, hills, etc).
Switched to PM-22 and only used high volume Chevron/Texaco fuel. That was a year or so ago and it has not happened again.
In fact the Texaco station that I filled up at 90% of the time was recently sold to a new owner. After the second fill up I was getting 2-3 less MPG and the truck seemed to run more sluggish, so I went in and asked the new owner if they changed fuel distributors, he said yes.
My point is that it is possible that the problem may be related to poor fuel and too low cetane (or something). It would make sense that if you were in regen and had poor fuel, the truck could run really rough.
One time I filled up at an Exxon station and after 5 miles I was going over the Kemah TX bridge and the truck started pinging, bucking and almost stalled out. Couldn't get up to 45 MPH.
I was using Power Service Silver and found no water in the seperator. No WIF light. Got through that tank by topping it off every day (and avoided the highway, hills, etc).
Switched to PM-22 and only used high volume Chevron/Texaco fuel. That was a year or so ago and it has not happened again.
In fact the Texaco station that I filled up at 90% of the time was recently sold to a new owner. After the second fill up I was getting 2-3 less MPG and the truck seemed to run more sluggish, so I went in and asked the new owner if they changed fuel distributors, he said yes.
My point is that it is possible that the problem may be related to poor fuel and too low cetane (or something). It would make sense that if you were in regen and had poor fuel, the truck could run really rough.
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