Ford recalls over 850,000 cars in the US due to potential fuel pump failure

AP ^ | 7/10/2025 | AP Reporter

[BipolarBob]

Get a V-6 not a four banger with turbo. They fail prematurely from excessive heat and an overly complicated system. Scotty Kilmer has YT videos on this. A V-8 is even better. A bigger block to dissipate heat and no expensive turbo system to fail. An even better option is buy an older vehicle without so much expensive computers and cameras and anti-pollution stuff on them.

[MotorCityBuck]

I’ve leased Lincoln and Ford products for almost 20 years now.
Loved them all. Yes there are recalls.
I currently have the ST Explorer.
I love it.

[MachIV]

Small gas engines with turbos notoriously have shorter lives and will cost you more money in maintenance in the short time it lasts. I am hoping Zeldin does enough work at the EPA to reverse the stupid requirements that forced manufactures to go that route to begin with.

[Campion]

Several recent-model Ford engines have a wet timing belt (a belt, not a chain, that is inside the engine and continually soaked in oil), and some even have an oil pump driven by a wet belt.

That's basically an engine with a planned self-destruct designed in right from the factory.

[MachIV]

I had a 2004 Nissan Frontier with a V6. It was an underpowered piece of junk and a money pit.

My first and last Nissan product.

[Tell It Right]

I usually get a new truck every 5 or 6 years and they are no problems by the time I sell them......typically around 80,000 miles no major problems.

Whew! I can't imagine getting a NEW car or truck every 5 or 6 years, unless by "new" you meant a used car that's new to you. I have 190K miles in our 2005 6-cyl Ford Explorer SportTrac. Not a big truck, but when I need more cargo space I pull the trailer. It's leaking oil pretty badly and will cost too much to fix. But on the flipside, my wife and I do almost all of our driving in our 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 anyway to save gas. So I may just keep putting oil into the truck if we're driving it just a couple of thousand miles per year anyway.

The Ioniq 5 (an EV car) has 75K miles in 3 years. Will I have to replace the battery in it (or replace the car) at the 10 year mark? I don't know. On the one hand it would seem so if I have 250K miles on it. But on the other hand, almost all of the miles we put on it are slow charged (level 2), which is supposed to be better at making the battery last longer than the level 3 fast charging on road trips. The other factor is if we'll need it for long trips by then anyway. It may be by then that the pickup is replaced and it would be the newer, more comfortable car to take on road trips. If so, then we could keep the old EV with the old battery indefinitely because it won't matter if it no longer has a long range (that matters only if it's a car for long trips). And of course, that's even assuming that the rest of the car isn't falling apart at 250K miles anyway.

So my decision on when to replace the Ford Explorer truck is based in part on how it fits in the overall decision on needing at least one nice car for most of our trips.

[1Old Pro]

I don’t understand why some of these companies don’t have flagship vehicles that are bulletproof. I guess they make more money with crap products.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Before the 2006, I had a 2000 4 banger, it went 212K but was 2WD and putting chains on got old.

[TonyM]

Found On road Dead (FORD)

I remember the commercial “Ford has a Better Car” to which the reply would be “But Chevy Has a Better Car”!

[OrioleFan]

Haven’t heard anything on my 2018 F-150 STX. Knock on metal.

[BipolarBob]

Chevrolet, the heartbeat heart break of America.

[jpp113]

4 cylinder w/ turbos must have the oil changed regularly. The oil lubricates the turbo as well as the guts of the engine. Heat destroys dino motor oil, only use a major brand of synthetic oil. The absolute best to use is Amsoil.

[Responsibility2nd]

There a YouTube out of a hot shot driver who put over a million miles on his 4 cylinder Frontier.

FWIW.

[Gil4]

Fix Or Repair Daily

I always preferred Found On Road Dead. (Too much redundancy in Fix/Repair)

[TalBlack]

Turbos are race equipment. The engines burn at higher temps.
You don’t have a Pit Crew or a sponsor. Do the math. Getting 300 horse out of a naturally aspirated 6 is easy these days. Another consideration is the disposable engine. Many most or all (I don’t know which) are produced thru a new process that doesn’t involve a rebuildable block. They have some kind of arc weld looking thing that passes thru the bore and creates the surface as it goes. This surface has pits in it that ends the need for crosshatching but it is unsleeveable and can’t be bored over. When it wears out its gone.

[Seruzawa]

The 350 small block smiles benignly and motors on, laughing at turbo4s, V6s and other claptrap.

[Vendome]

My engine is twin turbo 327,000 miles this morning

[Zuriel]

I have two old 4dr 2wd chevy blazers, an 01 (313k miles) and an 04 (258). Both still look nice. I bought the 01 in 09 with full options and 94k for only $5,600. Almost 220k later and it still has the original drive train. The only engine work was replacing the poorly engineered intake manifold gaskets a month after buying it. It still only uses about a half quart between changes. However, it is on its 4th fuel pump.

The 04 was bought in 2020 because it was cheap: $2,300. 219k with a replaced engine with 120k (I knew the trans was questionable). The engine is a freak. Hardly uses any oil between changes. Pulled the trans last fall and had it rebuilt for $1,850. In the 39k miles we’ve owned it I have replaced the fuel pump twice. However, I bought a cheap pump the first time.

Our 07 Highlander has 314k and still has the original fuel pump. However, at 305k it snapped the timing belt, which had only 68k on it (did the full job at the time: seals, idlers, water pump, and belts). The 3.3L is an interference engine. There was likely some dinged valves, but I chose to put a new timing belt on it and see what would happen. 9k later it is still running.

Because of the miles on it before the belt failure it was using about a quart and a half every 5k, had some noticable valve lash, and the check engine light was on more than off. Now it uses twice that, and the valve lash twice as noisey, yet no check engine light. Strange.

[montag813]

Still waiting for recalls (along with millions of others) on my 2010 Ford Exploder transmission and 2012 Expedition defective timing belt. There is a mechanic on YouTube whose entire family makes a living just from replacing the latter - at owner’s cost.

[HIDEK6]

Ford is incompetent.