Ford 1.0L 3 cylinder Ecoboost
i hear its transmissions, even the manuals, are sealed and don’t allow for regular fluid changes. that’s atop of the cylinder head wet belt or whatever issues these are known for.
talk about planned obsolescence right there.
Nah, fluid changes are no biggie, but for wet timing belt replacement you have to take half the engine apart. If you don’t, the engine might seize up doing 90 on the freeway giving you a generous 5 seconds to react after the oil pressure light comes on.
wait is the wet belt also running the oil pump? that’s worse than i thought.
Well, the reality of things is that the Internal Combustion Engine is a mature technology. The metallurgy, tribology, thermal stresses, etc. have all been figured out to the point where any engine no matter how bad can easily last a hundred thousand miles or more. Talking about regular engines, not specialty self-destructing engines that seem to arise occasionally. To discuss those, you’d need to get into failure modes and root causes, and important distinctions must be made for engineering design vs production (quality control) failures.
Now, the problem with bad manufacturers is often not the engine itself—those usually survive with oil changes—it’s the rest of the car. The engine can go bad by faulty electronic controls (which can arguably be considered part of the engine); for example, a bad electronic throttle can cause damage downstream; bad fuel injectors (which can also be considered part of the engine) can create uneven thermal loads that end up in more problems and ultimately engine failure. However, the metal, the motor itself and the moving parts weren’t necessarily defective.
Anyway, to answer your question: I don’t know, they all suck, but stick with Toyota. It’s a race to the bottom and they’ve purposefully been losing for years.
That said… Saabs are still crap.
I was always led to believe that rotary engines were unreliable, and that’s why people did engine swaps on RX7s… I have no idea honestly, but as far as I understand they’re just heavy on maintenance
A friend had one. If he started it he had to drive it, because if he started it and then shut it off, it wouldn’t start for another 15 minutes
Yeah they flood themselves on startup, they are particularly unsuited for short drives
yeah mine required an engine swap at 70k. but it was a twin turbo. the normally aspirated rotaries were a lot more durable.
Suburu engines, eco boost engines, most fords except truck models, SAAB engines some of them, Chrysler most engines, Audi near all engines. Not too many auto manufacturers make good cars anymore. Sadly. Their built to replace not work and maintain.
Hyundai theta ii
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The Prince engine in the R56 Mini Cooper S. That engine just ate itself.
You don’t see many of those cars on the road anymore because of the engine.
