Brian41
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- City, State
- Cincinnati, OH
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2015 Ford Explorer Sport
I have posted two two recent threads on here about issues with my 2015 sport I recently purchased acting sluggish and having all kinds of power issues. The first time the dealership said it was probably bad fuel and that I SHOULD use either 89 or 93 octane gas. I told them that I had been putting 89 but I would then try 93.
I ran several tanks of 93 octane and the car still had issues.
I just took it back to the same dealership and they now tell me the mechanic noticed the lack of power and said he found it was running 3 times as high in octane as it should be. They then told me to use only 87 octane and to never use anything higher again. They said after a few tanks it should start running better. The mechanic said had I kept running at higher octane "I would have burned that engine out".
I'm no car expert and I feel they are giving me the run around. I know the 3.5 ecoboost is designed to run on all 3 grades of gas and I feel even if this helps the problem, it is just putting a bandaid on the issue as there is still something not right with the engine not coping with the higher octanes it is supposed to have.
Those who have far more knowledge on this forum than me, please chime in, as your responses are going to help me decide my next phone call to this dealership, as I'm not real happy. Thanks.
I ran several tanks of 93 octane and the car still had issues.
I just took it back to the same dealership and they now tell me the mechanic noticed the lack of power and said he found it was running 3 times as high in octane as it should be. They then told me to use only 87 octane and to never use anything higher again. They said after a few tanks it should start running better. The mechanic said had I kept running at higher octane "I would have burned that engine out".
I'm no car expert and I feel they are giving me the run around. I know the 3.5 ecoboost is designed to run on all 3 grades of gas and I feel even if this helps the problem, it is just putting a bandaid on the issue as there is still something not right with the engine not coping with the higher octanes it is supposed to have.
Those who have far more knowledge on this forum than me, please chime in, as your responses are going to help me decide my next phone call to this dealership, as I'm not real happy. Thanks.