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Old Jan 25, 2016 | 11:14 PM
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I feel like this section should be getting a lot more traffic than it should! Here's an official "ask an engineer" section on FTE to ask Ford engineers questions about trucks!

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Old Jan 27, 2016 | 01:14 PM
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I feel like this section should be getting a lot more traffic than it should! Here's an official "ask an engineer" section on FTE to ask Ford engineers questions about trucks!

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Those questions look staged. I am surprised there are no "quality" questions in light of all the recent problems with recent year models.
 
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Old Jan 27, 2016 | 01:38 PM
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No engineer ever wants to talk about how they designed the top parts of the doors to curve towards the roof, allowing avalanches to fall onto the seats when you open a door in the winter...
 
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Old Jan 27, 2016 | 08:37 PM
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No engineer ever wants to talk about how they designed the top parts of the doors to curve towards the roof, allowing avalanches to fall onto the seats when you open a door in the winter...
LOL so true!
 
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Old Jan 28, 2016 | 05:30 AM
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6.2 hp/ tq through the years

I am most interested in the 2016 to 2017, but from the beginning of production which years were there actually component changes, ie cam, head mods, to increase hp and torque and which years were the changes merely programming changes?
 
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Old Jan 28, 2016 | 05:33 AM
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Those questions look staged. I am surprised there are no "quality" questions in light of all the recent problems with recent year models.
Problems, PROBLEMS, Ford has no stinking problems, Only solutions!
 
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Old Jan 28, 2016 | 05:43 AM
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No engineer ever wants to talk about how they designed the top parts of the doors to curve towards the roof, allowing avalanches to fall onto the seats when you open a door in the winter...
I hate when that happens!
 
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Old Jan 28, 2016 | 05:47 AM
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No engineer ever wants to talk about how they designed the top parts of the doors to curve towards the roof, allowing avalanches to fall onto the seats when you open a door in the winter...

That always happens when we get snow. lol
 
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Old Jan 28, 2016 | 06:31 AM
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No engineer ever wants to talk about how they designed the top parts of the doors to curve towards the roof, allowing avalanches to fall onto the seats when you open a door in the winter...
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LOL so true!
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That always happens when we get snow. lol
I have found it best to use the brush on the other end of my ice scraper to dust the snow off before opening the door. The passenger side never gets snow in it!
 
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Old Jan 28, 2016 | 07:38 AM
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This whole thing is nothing more than canned responses ran through a PR / Marketing filter.

They are doing for web search hits and nothing else.

If they were really serious you'd be able to ask any and all questions all day long...not just the topics they want to talk about.

You will never see an answer to why they are converting the 17 SD to aluminum when the performance of the 150 aluminum body / box has been failing miserably at construction sites in the upper Midwest?

You'll just get answers like we tested it with 2 bags of dog food and you are obviously abusing the box / body.

Other questions as to why in the heck they traction control can't be turned off permanently will fall on deaf ears.
 
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You will never see an answer to why they are converting the 17 SD to aluminum when the performance of the 150 aluminum body / box has been failing miserably at construction sites in the upper Midwest?
Really? Tell me more! Hadn't heard that.

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Other questions as to why in the heck they traction control can't be turned off permanently will fall on deaf ears.
Probably because it's required under the same rules that mandate stability control.

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Originally Posted by superrangerman2002
This whole thing is nothing more than canned responses ran through a PR / Marketing filter.

They are doing for web search hits and nothing else.

If they were really serious you'd be able to ask any and all questions all day long...not just the topics they want to talk about.

You will never see an answer to why they are converting the 17 SD to aluminum when the performance of the 150 aluminum body / box has been failing miserably at construction sites in the upper Midwest?

You'll just get answers like we tested it with 2 bags of dog food and you are obviously abusing the box / body.

Other questions as to why in the heck they traction control can't be turned off permanently will fall on deaf ears.

I've never heard of failing aluminum boxes or bodies on the new 150's. In what way did they fail?
 
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