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I can't help you with your issue but I can tell you not to shop at auto zone unless you like paying double. I recently went to get some transmission fluid for my mustang and the dealership was half the price of auto zone. Let alone some mail order online price.
 
BrutulTM

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Kobayashi said:
How's the ground strap between your engine and frame? If it looks decent, you might still want to try backing out the bolt, then driving it back in. That's a lot of unique failures happening all at once.
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This is a good thought. Any time the electrical shit is flipping out in really crazy ways it's usually a grounding problem.

I just had a weird problem with my Ecoboost F-150. First I was getting a misfire but replacing that coil (the same coil had gone bad a couple of years earlier) cleared that up. Then it started doing something where it would suddenly have no power and go into limp mode. You could floor the gas pedal and it wouldn't go above an idle. Turn the engine off and back on and everything would be fine. It happened 3 times with months between them so I figured I'd just wait for it to get worse. It did a little bit but it still only happened 3 times in maybe a month. Last couple times it threw codes about catalyst efficiency and turbo under boost. Took it in to a shop and they drove it to lunch for a week and never got it to act up but the guy seemed pretty confident that the problem was the throttle body. He says he replaces 3 or 4 a month on Ford pickups for similar symptoms and it will hardly ever throw a code. A week and $485 later it hasn't happened again, but since it was already so intermittent who knows. Hoping for the best.
 
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BrutulTM

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I get parts from Rock Auto. They have a large range of parts depending on whether you want economy, OEM Equivalent, or performance. My buddy that's a mechanic tells me that their prices are pretty much the same as he pays for parts. They charge quite a bit for shipping though, so keep that in mind when you're comparing prices. I don't know if it's because I'm in the sticks but the parts stores are very high priced and have very little selection around here.
 
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Fucker

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BrutulTM said:
I don't know if it's because I'm in the sticks but the parts stores are very high priced and have very little selection around here.
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Pretty common these days. Even their cleaning products are over priced. I get my parts from various dealerships, or online OEM if I don't need anything right away. Parts store here sells no name Chinese trash at huge prices.
 
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All right I figured I'd check with you guys to see if I could figure out my current issues. Needed to swap out my spark plugs and ignition coils on a 2016 f150 2.7 l EcoBoost turbo. Got to pack off Amazon (KAX) that had good reviews, pre-gapped plugs that all checked out and packs that looked exactly like the ones that were OEM on the truck.

Spent yesterday morning at my dad swapping them out, and I got a check engine light. Brave it back home and could detect misfiring, and jump back on the Amazon and ordered a BlueDriver Bluetooth diagnostic tool, which came in this morning, and I'll add it's pretty awesome.

Anyways, I'm getting error codes for coils two and three which are on the passenger side, middle one and the one against the firewall.

Did the swap trick on number two with one and I'm still getting the same error and nothing where the original number two was in the one slot.

Friday though when I was going to get my vehicle inspected, my damn truck wouldn't turn on and I had to diagnose it in the parking lot, and ended up being a relay on number 66 that goes to the power control module. Swapped it with something that wasn't being used and fired right up.

I don't know if I got too bad coils, or if maybe I'm having problems with the PCM. Checked all the wiring harnesses, connectors for seated tight, I mean I was gentle with everything swapping stuff out yesterday.

Ended up running the stupid AutoZone today and the only coil pack they had on hand was $75, and come to find out they charge $120 for a motorcraft. When the hell did they skyrocket in price for over the counter sales I have no idea but I'm not paying that.

I'm waiting on the damn engine to cool off for me to go back out there and at least try that other one and see if I can get rid of one of the codes.
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I've swapped out coil packs and stuff on all of my f-150s and I've never encountered something like this. I'm just worried it might be a bigger problem. I was also getting misfires prior to swapping everything which is the reason I went ahead and embarked upon this.

Any help would be appreciated.
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It's not necessarily the coils. Replace the spark plugs.
 
TJT

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I am looking to get a car for my MIL in the next IDK 2 years when she comes to live with us. My wife wants an EV but refuses to buy Tesla because she irrationally hates Elon Musk over Starlink :rolleyes: . While I could fight her on that and break her will eventually some other nerds turned me onto this. I very much like the idea of a simpler car you can do stuff with yourself in the garage. As opposed to today's indecipherableones.

Honestly a neat concept. I know it is piggybacking off what is already happening in Asia and other parts of the world.


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Slate

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BrutulTM

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It's an interesting idea but I'll be surprised if the company actually survives.
 
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TJT said:
I am looking to get a car for my MIL in the next IDK 2 years when she comes to live with us. My wife wants an EV but refuses to buy Tesla because she irrationally hates Elon Musk over Starlink :rolleyes: . While I could fight her on that and break her will eventually some other nerds turned me onto this. I very much like the idea of a simpler car you can do stuff with yourself in the garage. As opposed to today's indecipherableones.

Honestly a neat concept. I know it is piggybacking off what is already happening in Asia and other parts of the world.


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Slate

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Starlink? The fairly priced internet access for the whole world? Why in the fuck would she hate that? Jesus Christ man….

Anyway, Slate isn’t out yet. TBD on that one.
 
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Sludig

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TJT said:
I am looking to get a car for my MIL in the next IDK 2 years when she comes to live with us. My wife wants an EV but refuses to buy Tesla because she irrationally hates Elon Musk over Starlink :rolleyes: . While I could fight her on that and break her will eventually some other nerds turned me onto this. I very much like the idea of a simpler car you can do stuff with yourself in the garage. As opposed to today's indecipherableones.

Honestly a neat concept. I know it is piggybacking off what is already happening in Asia and other parts of the world.


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Slate

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See the other car thread. Cool when announced line the elio but in execution is going to be poor. Get an ioniq 5, or other hybrid, if you really wanted a truck for dinner reason Maverick
 
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TJT

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I like the idea around these deliberately simple right to repair vehicles. So I would be more interested in getting something like that, but not buying something made in 1985 to accomplish it. I know REO is another one.
 
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TJT said:
I am looking to get a car for my MIL in the next IDK 2 years when she comes to live with us. My wife wants an EV but refuses to buy Tesla because she irrationally hates Elon Musk over Starlink :rolleyes: . While I could fight her on that and break her will eventually some other nerds turned me onto this. I very much like the idea of a simpler car you can do stuff with yourself in the garage. As opposed to today's indecipherableones.

Honestly a neat concept. I know it is piggybacking off what is already happening in Asia and other parts of the world.


www.slate.auto

Slate

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I don't know how much you are going to be able to do that. Some parts are made to be easy to fiddle with, but how often do you change window regulators? Swap fog lights? The drivetrain and battery are Chinese, so hands off there. Reliability? I bet poor. You won't be able to fix anything serious on it in your garage. Also, it is 2 door, and 2 doors and old people do not mix.

Parts themselves are going to be hard to get. Companies like this don't carry much more than what they can bolt onto a car, so good luck there.

A great MILMobile is Honda CR-V. Perfect in every way for old people. Cheap to buy, too. Starts at $31k.
 
Kobayashi

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Regarding Slate, it's nice that it's simple, but I'd be a bit worried about the availability of service parts. Also, if you get yourself a Bluedriver or OBDlink MX+, you'll have a pretty decent idea of the fault on most vehicles (minus Tesla).

Also, as far as what I've heard, you can't turn off one pedal driving on the Slate. (there's still an accelerator and a brake pedal, but the accelerator has very heavy regen, so, it acts as a brake when you let up, even turning on the brake lights depending on your rate of deceleration). An elderly driver may have a harder time getting used to something like that, so, you might want to test drive a vehicle that has it (Ford, Tesla, GM, and Hyundai all have it, for example, but it needs to be turned on in settings).

Assuming Ford doesn't have any teething issues (probably a huge if) I think the Fathom will be a much better option than Slate. Hyundai/Kia have some decent options that depreciate like crazy if you go the used EV route.
 
Dr.Retarded

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Well ended up determining one of the coil packs out of the six I got was bad and just put in one of the old ones because it's not like all six were shot. Spark plugs were fine and I'm not getting any check engine lights any longer. Did go get an oil change this morning and the guy said there's also a recall on the PCM, so I've got to take it into a Ford dealership and get some sort of firmware update. That would explain why I'm getting a whole bunch of miscommunication errors when I do a full system report with the diagnostic tool.

Was kind of worried the PCM was on the fritz, but hopefully that'll fix everything. Seems to be running fine now. I did check the ground wire coming off the battery like Kobayashi Kobayashi suggested it looked fine.

I will say the blue engine tool has been pretty handy. You can export a PDF report of all your codes and then feed it in the AI to break the codes and everything down and give me a laundry list of things to troubleshoot. For 100 bucks I'm pretty damned impressed with what that thing is capable of.

Thanks though gentleman for some of the suggestions posted. Just have a couple more things maintenance wise this month and I should be good to go.
 
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It really seems like the ODBII port should be obsolete by now. All newer vehicles not only have a screen but are connected to the internet. They should just be emailing you a full report, not turning on a check engine light and making you buy a reader to know what the codes are.
 
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BrutulTM said:
It really seems like the ODBII port should be obsolete by now. All newer vehicles not only have a screen but are connected to the internet. They should just be emailing you a full report, not turning on a check engine light and making you buy a reader to know what the codes are.
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they want you to take it to the dealer. new cars are almost completely locked down. Again I had to get my truck flashed when the battery was changed out. Good news is onstar did email me that my battery was looking low. Compare that to my old 2005 chrysler 300 C when it got us to the place where we got a haircut and died , in the dark with no warning. Good and bad I guess.
 
Bald Brah

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I can't see slate selling too well. It's not a truck. It's a car with a bed. 2000lb towing and 1500lbs payload are a joke for anything you actually want a truck for. This thing is barely capable of light soccer mom landscape duty. Plus the electric drive train rules out any kind of camping or hunting or fishing duty. Unless you do all that within an hour from your house.
 
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they want you to take it to the dealer. new cars are almost completely locked down. Again I had to get my truck flashed when the battery was changed out. Good news is onstar did email me that my battery was looking low. Compare that to my old 2005 chrysler 300 C when it got us to the place where we got a haircut and died , in the dark with no warning. Good and bad I guess.
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Yeah, my independent mechanic buddy said he had a guy come in with a Chevy Pickup recently because he tried to change his own brake pads and you have to be able to hook up a computer to it to get it to release the pads so you can't even do that yourself anymore.

It's even worse with machinery. My John Deere stuff is all computerized now and they won't even let independent mechanics read the codes. You can only find out what the light means by taking it to a dealership. Then to top it off the mechanics at the dealership are not good at diagnosing or repairing electronics. I have had two different machines this summer where the electronics acted up in way that made the machine unusable and the dealership just threw a new ECU at it and then I'm out $2000 and the thing still has the same problem because the ECU was probably fine to begin with.
 
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