Ford ranger stopped dead

[Johnnyboxer]

Issues with Honda petrol engines are almost unheard of.

They've not had the best of reputation with their 2.2 diesel, but the later 1.6 bi turbo is better. Not perfect , but better.

I went back to a VTec Petrol CRV from a succession of previous 2.2 ictdi and iDtec diesels
Use a bit more juice, but no turbo, no dpf or dmf or adblu, just a free revving Petrol engine

 

[Oliveau]

Old Isuzu 2.8 - Bomb proof
Later 3.1 - Average
Newer 3.0 - Notorious for injector failure, and also very expensive to fix injector failure outside of warranty.

On the other hand my 20 year old Ssangyong with it‘s 2.9 MB engine just goes on and on and on………

 

[pycoed]

Old Isuzu 2.8 - Bomb proof
Later 3.1 - Average
Newer 3.0 - Notorious for injector failure, and also very expensive to fix injector failure outside of warranty.

On the other hand my 20 year old Ssangyong with it‘s 2.9 MB engine just goes on and on and on………

The only parts of my two that were rubbish were the Merc bits sadly! Headgasket, then later a timing chain failure (broken cam & bent rod(s)). Changed engine & another headgasket job, followed 5000 miles later by a catastrophic crank or rod failure The Ssanyong bits were all fine...

 

[Sebastian77]

Transit andDefender has had a recall to change dodgy injectors and the early type oil pumps that were/are prone to failure. Ranger has not. The current ranger engine has had injector issues and some have been recalled. The issue was leaky injectors causing sump oil dilution. I believe that they have also factory fitted a modified heavier duty set of wet belts now also.

The recalls for injectors were for a specific manufacturing period on the Transit, can't remember exact dates but it was something like April 2019 to September 2019, when there was a known manufacturing defect on the injectors themselves.

My neighbor has a 2017 Custom, his got flagged for recall for a timing belt change last summer and Ford changed the belt, my own 2018 DCIV has only had 1 recall and it was to update the ECU to fix the oil dilution from failed regens. Have asked a few times when having my work van serviced (in hope of a free belt change before mine reaches recommended change mileage) they are only doing the first batches of the revamped custom (2017). My work van 2018 LWB had the ECU update too, but none others.

Don't know about earlier than 2017 models, where I work had VW transporters for the 2015-2018 period, which were mechanically sound but rubbish to spend a day in, before that we had Vauxhall vivarios and they were good too till they fall apart, mine clutch went at 100k, repaired then gearbox died at 120k. 2 other vans on the company both had injector deaths, well past 100k miles though- 1 destroyed engine on the M1, the other wouldn't start 1 day and the injectors were seized solid.

Must have spent third of my life in a van