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Have to agree, I sensed the same thing that the DW is pretty quiet over the OEM, I believe a new sock filter helps greatly too.
Did it yank the cv axle out of the ptu? Any potential damage to ptu or transmission effects the evaluation. Even if they cant see anything externally.
Why I'm having them look all around, at first they where just going to send it to a body shop, until I mentioned hey how is it going to body shop on 3 wheels. Yes it yanked the right side completely out, including ripping off the carrier bearing for it. Ripped brake line in 2, they at first were going to cut a check without an eval. Wasnt going for it and end up short changed and possibly bad mechanicals. Found half the control arm ball joint still on knuckle, but broke it right in half. They claimed at first I hit a curb, but officer took pictures of tire streaks starting in the lane I was in, then a sharp veer to the right to show I didn't hit the curb first. It dumped tranny and brake fluid on that side. Only see half of shaft in picture other half was under car.
I don't want to lose it, not with all the time in invested already. She will go ahead and get all new suspension, even if they just replace the front right. I bought it rebuilt and all it needed was a fender hood and bumper and they totalled it at that time, the same side that was damaged in the original accident before I bought it. But they have it insured for 10 more than I paid for it due to increase in car values.buy back from total is usually an option if you really don't want it to go. With car values so high maybe not a total though.
Check the axle to engine mount. If it cracked or broke off the mount on the block then it needs a short block also. Just saw one being replaced at one of my client's dealerships. Crazy something so simple could be so costly.
Referring to the mount for the carrier bearing for the right side axle? Yes it was ripped off, it ripped the axle out of the transmission/PTU, split axle in two. If it is not what your referring to, where do I need to look? I walked away from the car for a day, just to cool down, and went back to also find seal was dislodged from PTU also. Knuckle will also have to be replaced, the mount for the ball joint is cracked on underside. short version the whole right side will need a rebuild. Broke my heart. We build a relationship with our cars, and it's devastating when they get hurt. That and are hands havnt healed yet from all the other work we invest in them. The rim was also the one I replaced just months ago for splitting the rim in two hitting a really bad p o t hole, i might have actually damaged the components with that incident, which months later caused this incident. Had car inspected when rim was replaced last time but couldn't see any fractures in the suspension.
THis is the shared problem many of us face. We enjoy shoveling money into a furnace. For a wh ore of a car that never loved me back. Oh wait, that's just me.
I just did mine as well. Also not as bad I had expected with 99k miles and 9100 idles hours (PI car). Ford says the engine really has 399,300 miles on it.
It seems like the 3.5 ecoboost fairs better than many other DI engines I have seen posted online with even less mileage. I feel like mine is idling smoother since cleaning but I replaced my spark plugs at the same time.
