Hi all Could use some help - recently bought a 2017 Ford Explorer Sport 3.5 Turbo Ecoboost, and noticed a strange hiss/rattle noise when you accelerate fairly hard. It is IDENTICAL to the noise shown in this video:   [please see 1:25 for demo of the noise] Really useful video, and even gives the part number (YG360), but unfortunately that video is for the older generation (MK4), but he changes out the Check Valve and it fixes it completely. Pretty confident that this replacement would work as the noise is identical. What the MK5 equivalent to his MK4 valve??? Any help very appreciated!

So, despite China’s predatory trade practices via huge state subsidies, forced labor and IP theft we should allow these China vehicles to pour into our country so Americans can have lower prices. Wonderful, that has worked so well over the last 30 years. Yes, let’s keep prioritizing those cheap prices.

Not really, stop rewarding mediocrity with tariffs and protective policies that increase costs for Americans.   Protecting a few hundred thousand jobs while increasing the cost for 300 million people by 10% may not be a good idea in the long term. 

So your solution is to allow cheap imports free reign?  GM and Ford will adapt to whatever the market demands.  The market for their money makers isn’t going away any time soon.  And they did not forget how to build smaller cheaper cars.

We are still inching down here- about time for a 30¢+ sudden increase, as  has been the pattern lately. I can't explain BP's premium price; 2 block walk down there, I'll buy a doughnut and check the actual pump. Still having a "boarder war" with Hastings MN 3mi away, indeed the TC Metro; largely $3.09-3.19/gal 87 E10

Doesn’t mean that range was the reason they went with something else.  Lots of other factors.

We have heard that time and time again for justification of EV delivery vans, yet the sales figures say otherwise. Brightdrop immediately comes to mind. 

For the record, Asia is a continent, not a country.   I believe that the chaos and turmoil in the U.S. auto industry over the next decade will be far more destructive than what is currently happening in China.   American automakers are set up to fail and are unable to compete on a global scale. Their overdependence on the North American market, combined with a consumer base that is facing economic challenges due to rising costs of living, is problematic. Simply put, buyers in North America will struggle to afford what domestic automakers are selling. Additionally, these automakers are uncompetitive in other markets, creating a vicious cycle that opens opportunities for foreign automakers to take advantage of the situation.

Yea, makes sense. But adding anonymous unibody sedans to the product lineup ain't going to help Infiniti or their dealers, just as with Ford and Lincoln. There are much more serious issues involved with all of those brands.      

I was scheduled for the PCM reprogramming last week. The dealership sent a technician to my home, but he said he was having trouble with his laptop and would have to return the next day. The next day I got a call from the dealership. They said they had been trying to fix a software issue for hours, and had then discovered that it was a nationwide problem. So the recall is cancelled for a month or so. Meanwhile I still have to drive my car.😐