Fuel Injectors

[da20driver]

Hey guys, I'm looking for any advice/suggestions on my current situation...

Long story short-

Purchased a 2010 Taurus SHO with 70k miles a couple months back.

It has the Ford Pre-Owned certified 100,000 Powertrain warranty.

A little history on the vehicle, it had a fuel injector replaced by the previous owner at 68k miles. Under the repair history it was written up as warranty work. After a little more research (I got in touch with the service agent at the ford dealership this was done at) the injector repair was not originally going to be covered under the Ford CPO warranty until the vehicles owner called Ford with complaints. The service agent claimed it would have been a $ 1,500-2000 repair that was negotiated down to a $500 deductible on a Ford Goodwill.

The car is now at my local ford dealer w/ 72k miles (several states away from the original repair) with another injector issue (car hesitation, unstable rpm, fumes in the cabin, flashing check engine light). Same scenario, the dealer doesn't want to do the repair as a warranty claim. I called ford and have a ford repair assist claim number and am waiting to hear the outcome from a regional service manager.

Should I be surprised fuel injectors wouldn't be covered? I found injectors for $110 on Tasca and I'm wondering while they're in there working if I should I have the remainder 5 replaced. From the research I've done fuel injector issues happen but they're not common.

Something interesting, I was talking to a mechanic that thinks the injector issues are coming from gasoline stations that use partial ethanol mix and recommended me to stations that sell pure gas.

Thanks for any suggestions

 

[SHOdded]

Repair costs seem WAY too high. Repairpal estimates $400 to replace one injector (parts & labor).

CPO Warranty copy here:
http://www.ford.com/resources/ford/global/pdf/cpo/CPO_Warranty.pdf

Fuel injectors ARE covered per this document.

This is the extra warranty Ford sells under the ESP umbrella (this is not CPO, but in addition to CPO):

http://owner.ford.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Owner/Page/ESPWizardStep1

If you notice, the cheapest plan, PowertrainCare does NOT cover fuel injectors. The higher plans do.

Might be a good choice to have all of them replaced. Not sure if that would be covered under warranty or how much it would be OOP to you. Ford typically replaces ONLY the faulty component under warranty, no preventive work is done. I assume that is standard practice for the industry.

If you want to know what is really going on, you should get a tuning device if ONLY to datalog what is going on with your SHO. You may be able to get a bluetooth adapter and Torque Pro software to do this. Hope someone more familiar with this setup will chime in.

 

[da20driver]

SHOdded-

Thank you for the response and information. All very helpful.

I've decided to replace all the injectors and hope to get my hands on the old ones to see if there's any buildup causing the failures. (Hopefully pictures to come)

PowertrainCare is the coverage the vehicle has, so I won't be expecting much assistance.

Thanks again for the info.