2017 DPF Issues?
Cargo Master
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Ford had this issue with the early '08 trucks. I would've thought they would have had this completely resolved by now. Like you said, Epic, we don't know the backstory, so who knows what's up.
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Not sure why this surprises anyone. All the "stuff" on the modern day diesel makes their reliability unknown. You may never have a problem, or it may strand you on the first week...like my buddy who bought a 2017 Lariat Ultimate for $72,000 and change. Sensors went whacky and truck shut down, week 1.
I get the love for the diesel torque, but I'll take the 6.2 and just keep on chugging.
I get the love for the diesel torque, but I'll take the 6.2 and just keep on chugging.
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Post Fiend
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Hopefully a diesel tech could comment, but think about what would need to happen here. The engine would need to be stuck in regen and all the sensors and fail safes would need to fail and fail "open" rather than "shut down".
Any thing can happen, but sure is a long shot.
Any thing can happen, but sure is a long shot.
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No, the engine would shut right down once it Started sucking gas.
This is probably a software problem, just like it was on the 08 trucks. Most likely an isolated issue.
This is probably a software problem, just like it was on the 08 trucks. Most likely an isolated issue.
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That's what 1,200 degrees looks like although you'd think that whatever needed to be burned out is completely burned out. And yet there's plenty of smoke coming out of the tailpipe. Besides exhaust build-up, what could possibly be consumed? Is that just diesel fuel that is burning and smoking?
When these things were new in 2011, I would check the temperatures of the dpf from front to back. The back inside of the tailpipe was always hottest if I shut off the truck in the middle of a regen. The temp inside the back tailpipe was in the 450 degree range. I could check the temps at other locations but the insulation around the dpf unit itself contained the highest temps completely inside. When a regen does go off, Torque Pro says it gets to 1,200 degrees on the sensors in front and in back of the dpf. This video looks like a simple regen gone rogue. It's dumping way too much fuel and it's just not turning off.
When these things were new in 2011, I would check the temperatures of the dpf from front to back. The back inside of the tailpipe was always hottest if I shut off the truck in the middle of a regen. The temp inside the back tailpipe was in the 450 degree range. I could check the temps at other locations but the insulation around the dpf unit itself contained the highest temps completely inside. When a regen does go off, Torque Pro says it gets to 1,200 degrees on the sensors in front and in back of the dpf. This video looks like a simple regen gone rogue. It's dumping way too much fuel and it's just not turning off.
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What on earth is going on in peoples' heads that makes them keep the engine running and driving around like that when something is seriously FUBAR with their vehicle?
First thing I'd do if that happened to me is shut the thing down where it is and call Ford to send a flatbed to pick it up because I'm no Evel Knievel.
Yeah, sometimes its good to have video proof of an event for warranty purposes, but its likely that Ford is only going to reflash that truck, give it a CPO warranty, a quick detail and call it good, despite the fact that the DPF/exhaust on that truck just got 100k miles worth of wear and tear done to it in the span of 5 minutes.
First thing I'd do if that happened to me is shut the thing down where it is and call Ford to send a flatbed to pick it up because I'm no Evel Knievel.
Yeah, sometimes its good to have video proof of an event for warranty purposes, but its likely that Ford is only going to reflash that truck, give it a CPO warranty, a quick detail and call it good, despite the fact that the DPF/exhaust on that truck just got 100k miles worth of wear and tear done to it in the span of 5 minutes.
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What on earth is going on in peoples' heads that makes them keep the engine running and driving around like that when something is seriously FUBAR with their vehicle?
First thing I'd do if that happened to me is shut the thing down where it is and call Ford to send a flatbed to pick it up because I'm no Evel Knievel.
Yeah, sometimes its good to have video proof of an event for warranty purposes, but its likely that Ford is only going to reflash that truck, give it a CPO warranty, a quick detail and call it good, despite the fact that the DPF/exhaust on that truck just got 100k miles worth of wear and tear done to it in the span of 5 minutes.
First thing I'd do if that happened to me is shut the thing down where it is and call Ford to send a flatbed to pick it up because I'm no Evel Knievel.
Yeah, sometimes its good to have video proof of an event for warranty purposes, but its likely that Ford is only going to reflash that truck, give it a CPO warranty, a quick detail and call it good, despite the fact that the DPF/exhaust on that truck just got 100k miles worth of wear and tear done to it in the span of 5 minutes.