I know Ford has had head gasket issues on the 2.0 ecoboost up until a redesign in 2019.
so my question is how high is the failure rate on 2018 and earlier 2.0 ecoboost engines. Is it inevitable that they are all going to fail. Anybody have ant stats, percentages

 

IMHO, they are junk/waiting to fail engines. Even if you get past the conventional head gasket failure (caused by the cracking block syndrome) their fix was nothing more than a 'bandaid....they drilled a tiny hole in-between the cylinders to provide coolant flow.... and this guy is tiny no greater than 1/16" diameter..... corrosion, dirt buildup, is going to block the passage and it's all going to crack and fail again.

 

For clarification, anyone in the future looking at this old thread, the Generation 1 engines did not have the head gasket failure and the blocks were basically Mazda 2.0 'L' blocks. We've got a 2012 Edge 2.0L, which needed the turbo replaced at 140k miles due to the wastegate wear out problem of many different engines that use the same turbo design style. Gen 2s used a Ford designed block after Mazda and Ford partnership degraded. Those I would not touch.1st Gen 2.0 EcoBoost:

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