Yeah coolant intrusion has been hunting the 1.5, 1.6 and 2.0 Ecoboost engines across the board. Ford tried multiple times to re-engineered it and failed….2.0 owners with the ‘new’ fixes (ie post 2019) are starting to pop up left and right…
Do you know if the (affected) ‘new’ gen 2.0 engine that you had in your 2020 Escape is the same 2.0L engine in the ‘21-‘23 Bronco Sport Badlands?
Ford issued a TSB for the previous generation 2.0L engine that requires a long block replacement if coolant intrusion occurs. "Starting to pop up left and right" is a vague term that isn't very informative. The issue experienced with your engine isn't necessarily evidence that the design defect of previous generations still exists. There are many different ways coolant can find its way into a cylinder.
yep, they replaced the long block on mine...just too much of a coincidence. They had another one at the dealer with the same issue. Like I said, the Ecoboost line up has been haunted by coolant intrusion and Ford's engineers either can't fix it or don't want to spend the $$$
yeah the 2020 Escape uses the same 2.0 engine that is in the Bronco Sport - they are platform sisters, in and out...
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this is super interesting, specially because Ford made changes again in 2020 - with the introduction of the new Escape - to attempt to resolve coolant intrusion issues...at least allegedly.
What year is your vehicle?
not everyone wants to go deeper into debt because a vehicle has a bad engine...Ford is focused on building more 1.5s because that's where the higher demand is - and lucky for them because otherwise Ford might end up with a Powershift like headache in a few years...
C'mon. Don't you think there would be a lot more hubbub about this if EVERY SINGLE ONE of the EcoBoost engines Ford manufactured had this issue? Obviously, some engines have. The question is how many. Do you have data on the number of engines that experienced this issue compared to the number manufactured?
No, they didn't. But clearly there were enough for Ford to stop using the transmission. I don't see that happening anytime soon with the 2.0L EcoBoost. Indeed, Ford seems to've invested a lot in it, even opening a new production line here in the USA.
Oh Ford kept producing those as well....till eventually there was so much noise, that they had no other option...the issues with Powershift started all the way in 2010...and Ford produced the last one in 2018 - a whole 8 years!!!!!
