Cam Phaser = New engine???

[BeeEyez]

They probably mentioned the issue because they’ve been burned by it before. It will continue to destroy cam phasers because they’ll be starved of oil. The scoring can also get worse due to oil bleed off through the journals.

On a 2018, list price for a long block is $7332. The warranty time to replace the long block is 9.5 hours, so to calculate customer pay time add 40%, which is 13.3 hours. Even at $200 an hour, that’s still only $2660 in labor. That $25k estimate is simply ridiculous.

I showed them the price of the long block on ford.com parts site, which was what you said here $7332, they were feeding me something about “matrix pricing” but couldn’t explain to me what that meant, but have now updated the quote to reflect that price, they still want to charge me $19k for parts/labor.

Subsequently, went in yesterday to have them physically show me the damage, they had since moved the truck outside and put the valve covers back on, I told them to open it, they said the tech was at lunch and couldn’t open it until the next day because it had to be moved back inside and he was in the middle of another job.

I’m going to see if I can get another quote. I’ll dm you the quote they sent me and you can see what the are charging me for.

 

[ba123]

Holy crap, what a rip off!

Where in CA are you?

There are a couple dealers near me in northern CA and one is shit like that and the other one is very good...or as good as you can expect from a dealer.

 

[BeeEyez]

Holy crap, what a rip off!

Where in CA are you?

There are a couple dealers near me in northern CA and one is shit like that and the other one is very good...or as good as you can expect from a dealer.

I’m in the Bay Area, San Jose.

 

[ba123]

I’m in the Bay Area, San Jose.

I'm in LG...

I had bad luck at Frontier but Zaki at Capitol has been great with me...I hope that didn't happen at Capitol. Happy to share his contact info if that's not where you went.

 

[dillard09]

I know you are in California with them high prices but I im here in Texas. I just had my old motor pulled and tore apart and inspected, purchased new long block, and install for 15k. Just saying.