Cam Phaser debacle

[smurfslayer]

And now, we can't get workers to come back to the office. They are quitting if we ask them to come in. Our economy is Fvcked.

I take it your line of work facilitates complete or near complete telework. If so, good on them for doing the right thing for the environment, traffic congestion and standing up for themselves.

If the managers do their job correctly.......being colocated with your teams is WAY more efficient. It is not a distraction.

It can be more efficient but a lot depends on the company culture, the management culture and style, company, mission etc.

Yes, we get thing done in a wfh environment.......but it takes 3-4x as long to get questions answered when people are wfh.

You show me a poor performing team and I’ll show you a leader who’s not doing their job.

It's going to depend on the job, the employee, and the manager. I had more bad managers than good.

Right.

To be fair, the “national backorder” nonsense predates covid, we had some 2017 hard parts take quite a long time to deliver when the Jen Too was new. Now it’s just amplified and it gives the consumer the perception of a lack of caring.

 

[Stojanowski]

Yea I have the cold start rattle and they are doing the flash on Tuesday.... Guessing that isn't gonna help? 2019 with 48k miles

 

[10SpdsOfFury]

I had mine (mid 2019 build) done last month. I noticed when warm it sounded like a VW TDI, they said cam phasers were bad and had the parts in 2 days. Truck is super quiet but I do notice the trans is kinda clunky now.

 

[Stojanowski]

I had mine (mid 2019 build) done last month. I noticed when warm it sounded like a VW TDI, they said cam phasers were bad and had the parts in 2 days. Truck is super quiet but I do notice the trans is kinda clunky now.

Yup mine sounds like a diesel for the first couple seconds... How long it take to repair? I thought they had to take the cab off.

Either way looking to get a super duty tremor on order before I hit 60k

 

[10SpdsOfFury]

Yup mine sounds like a diesel for the first couple seconds... How long it take to repair? I thought they had to take the cab off.

Either way looking to get a super duty tremor on order before I hit 60k

They had to fix my sunroof also so they had it a week. Mine ended up sounding like a diesel while it was warm and up to temp. Lol

 

[jzweedyk]

Yea I have the cold start rattle and they are doing the flash on Tuesday.... Guessing that isn't gonna help? 2019 with 48k miles

Probably not. The flash is to prevent it from happening, not stop it. I had mine flashed last fall and it didn't help.

 

[Stojanowski]

Probably not. The flash is to prevent it from happening, not stop it. I had mine flashed last fall and it didn't help.

Yea I figure once I get it in to them they are gonna end up keeping it...

 

[jzweedyk]

No, parts are on back order. You can drive it until they come in. They do have to verify the problem before ordering the parts.

 

[Winchester30]

@smurfslayer -OP may really be at a Prius dealership, might be the problem.

 

[Raptor Johns Creek]

My 2020 Raptor developed the cam phaser noise back in mid January. Not just at start up, but all the time. I called my local dealer, and made an appointment. They said they couldn't get me in till the end of February, but it was "ok to drive". So I kept driving it.

Took it in on Feb 25 and they did a completely useless ecm flash that did nothing and made the truck shift funky. They scheduled a new appointment for me to bring the truck in the following week to do what I thought would be the actual repair. I show up at 8:00am and the guy is like "why are you here? We don't have the parts." So he says it's going to be at least a month or two to get the parts. But "it's ok to drive it". So frigging annoying. So unlike me, I didn't raise hell, not sure why.

In the past couple of days the noise has gotten worse, way worse. The truck is idling rough (almost dies) and I can hear it pinging under throttle. Getting a bunch more error codes on the Ford App. Clearly it isn't safe to drive anymore. Any ideas what might have changed/happened? Pretty frustrating to have a 60k mile truck that is going to sit in the driveway because I can't get a part for a month or two.
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