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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby sparkie1984 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:39 am

Oh that’s interesting.. Keep us updated!

Mines 2018 but 23k miles
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby p2thed » Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:53 pm

The affected vehicle range
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby sparkie1984 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:18 pm

Wonder what they’ve changed post July 2019!!

Hopefully mine’ll be due for an inspection at some point
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby Chrisp74 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:44 pm

p2thed wrote:The affected vehicle range


Thats a lot of vehicles! Anyone care to guess the belt replacement ratio? would 25% be fair?
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby JamesHow » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:53 pm

I'm going to check my service history tomorrow!
Think it has full dealer history with belt done at 150k km??

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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby p2thed » Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:36 am

sparkie1984 wrote:Wonder what they’ve changed post July 2019!!

Hopefully mine’ll be due for an inspection at some point


think the vehicles from this date forward were produced with the new (upgraded) timing belt and the service intervals started to change from 36000 to 25k.
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby V184 » Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:31 pm

Chrisp74 wrote:
p2thed wrote:The affected vehicle range


Thats a lot of vehicles! Anyone care to guess the belt replacement ratio? would 25% be fair?



The recall says low percentage
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby man le-mans » Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:37 pm

p2thed wrote:
sparkie1984 wrote:Wonder what they’ve changed post July 2019!!

Hopefully mine’ll be due for an inspection at some point


think the vehicles from this date forward were produced with the new (upgraded) timing belt and the service intervals started to change from 36000 to 25k.


Wondering if the service intervals was changed partly because of the timing belt. Tho i do think 36k is way to much even with today’s oils. Be interesting to know how upgraded the belt is or if they have gone to a chain. Also be good if they upgraded the original belt to chain
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby V184 » Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:02 pm

man le-mans wrote:
p2thed wrote:
sparkie1984 wrote:Wonder what they’ve changed post July 2019!!

Hopefully mine’ll be due for an inspection at some point


think the vehicles from this date forward were produced with the new (upgraded) timing belt and the service intervals started to change from 36000 to 25k.


Wondering if the service intervals was changed partly because of the timing belt. Tho i do think 36k is way to much even with today’s oils. Be interesting to know how upgraded the belt is or if they have gone to a chain. Also be good if they upgraded the original belt to chain


Where does it say theirs an upgraded belt ?
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby sparkie1984 » Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:05 pm

I’d be willing to bet there’s absolutely no upgrade involved. It’s merely to get it swapped before it breaks and push us all past the point they’ll feel they have to honour it
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby p2thed » Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:35 pm

The part numbers have changed and the material the belt is constructed from is diffrent, page 3 on this thread shows them side by side
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby sparkie1984 » Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:23 pm

p2thed wrote:The part numbers have changed and the material the belt is constructed from is diffrent, page 3 on this thread shows them side by side

Beg your pardon. Missed that
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby p2thed » Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:42 am

:lol:
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby Transitguy2021 » Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:38 pm

One of my guys broke down last night and had to be recovered to the local Ford dealer. We have owned a 2017 2.0 Transit 350 from new with about 116K miles on it and regularly serviced. He phoned me to tell me that the he had a warning light and message on dash saying "Adblue malfunction you have 450 miles left and engine will not start". Well he had 220 miles to get back to base so I said no problem continue your jouney as we will still have miles left in the bank and we have Ford Assist recovery in case anything happens. Well it did, around 40 miles from base the engine died and he was stuck on a busy slip road which resulted in the police towing him to somewhere safe before recovery vehicle got him back. Recovery guy said he got 5 codes on his disgnostic display which is something within the Adblue system which he cannot fix. I phoned Ford this morning thinking nothing too serious to worry about to be told that they had a look and the engine was spinning with no compression and that it may need a brand new engine!! Querying further they said that there was a recall on the timing belt (which I have not seen) and that they will be seeing if Ford will support this under warranty and they will know the answer within 48 hours. Shocked I got hold of the service manager who explained that the teeth on the wet belt can disintegrate and end up in the sump blocking the oil pump and that Ford are aware of this, however they will not be able to tell me 100% if the engine is shot until they start stripping it down on Tues. Meanwhile I am in their hands whilst they have to spend a bunch of hours to strip down to see if indeed the engine is shot whilst hoping that they will replace under warranty if it is for what is now a 4 year old van. However, he did say that they have taken the onus and have already ordered a new engine anyway so now it is finger biting time to see if he can get this through. I also went through multiple phone calls to Ford Assist to get a 48 hour loan van with no guarantee unless they support the warranty that it will be extended at their cost whilst my vehicle is in workshop so all in all a complete stress and waste of time.

I spoke to my driver and he said that the warning lights had gone out after he spoke to me and that the van was going along nicely with no issues and then suddenly just a loss of power with no warning and no noise which is odd!
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Re: Timing belt recall

Postby Sg_frost » Sun Jul 04, 2021 6:22 pm

So who’s paying for it to be replaced if it’s degraded early? Are Ford paying or are they saying it just needs to be done early and pay up?
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