whimsey
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- 2017 XLT
I don't have actual proof, as you don't, but I've seen posts of 'Problems" of PTU's fluid being bad and causing issues on less than way less than 50,000 miles on the factory fill. It's not a got factory design problem If you intend to keep your vehicle with this PTU for no longer than the warranty or lease, the same time period. Basically this is not a "lifetime" fluid from the factory if you intend to keep it longer than the warranty. Since we intend to keep our Explorer for 200,000+ miles I intend to change the PTU and transmission fluid at least every 30,000 miles, at least it's easy to do both.I don't know if there is actually any evidence of that. The failure seems to be unpredictable. Some have had it early on and some have gone over 100k miles without changing the fluid.
Peter
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