Which oil did you use? I'm a V6 and V8 person so this is my first turbo. I had not done oil change by myself since I graduated. At 2,700 miles, my drained oil smells very different than the brand new Pennzoil platinum. After running it for 100 miles, the new oil smells like the previously drained oil. Auto part store guy said old oil smells like that. I just could not remember old oil smell.
all of EB people need to start smelling your dipsticks for fuel…
Sshhhh! You can't say something like that in an oil forum. My grandfather changed the oil every 500 miles and the water in the radiator every 1,000 miles. His Model A lasted 25 years.
You have a hybrid, that engine is MUCH less sensitive to good oil, especially since a percentage of your mileage is electric with the ICE not operating. This is very bad advice for ecoboost owners, direct injection and turbochargers don't do well with extended oil changes, especially Ford ecoboost engines. I've already posted my experience getting a used oil analysis with 5k miles on my oil and it was not good. I would say that the vast majority of owners are operating their ecoboost vehicle under the "severe" category at best.
Here it is again; reduced viscosity at operating temps, reduced flashpoint which is most likely the result of too much fuel in the oil, an inherent problem with turbocharged direct injection engines. Change your oil, it's cheap insurance to keep your ecoboost motor running. This is my third ecoboost 2.0 and both previous engines went well above 100k miles with no issues
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Thanks for the info and your experience with two other echo boosts... Now if I could just find the truth on valve carbon buildup... Is it a problem on the 2.0 the 2.3 all?You have a hybrid, that engine is MUCH less sensitive to good oil, especially since a percentage of your mileage is electric with the ICE not operating. This is very bad advice for ecoboost owners, direct injection and turbochargers don't do well with extended oil changes, especially Ford ecoboost engines. I've already posted my experience getting a used oil analysis with 5k miles on my oil and it was not good. I would say that the vast majority of owners are operating their ecoboost vehicle under the "severe" category at best.
Here it is again; reduced viscosity at operating temps, reduced flashpoint which is most likely the result of too much fuel in the oil, an inherent problem with turbocharged direct injection engines. Change your oil, it's cheap insurance to keep your ecoboost motor running. This is my third ecoboost 2.0 and both previous engines went well above 100k miles with no issues
It is a problem on any vehicle that only has direct injection but especially bad on turbocharged direct injected engines due to much higher cylinder pressures and more blow by. There is a certain member here who claims that ecoboost valve cleaning is "bogus" and that he drove his F150 ecoboost 150k with no carbon buildup but the second gen ecoboost 3.5 has both direct and port injection so he's just misinformed and will be in for a surprise with his Maverick. The 2.0 Ecoboost that comes in the Maverick only has direct injection, no port injection like apparently the newer 2.0 comes with. All it takes to confirm what I'm saying is 10 minutes looking at youtube videos of people cleaning valves in their Ford 2.0 Ecoboost and you will see that no matter what their setup is, catch can, no catch can the valves are still gunked up in as little as 30k miles.
I'm already considering a heat soak at 13k. Maybe every 20k at least. I've seen horror stories from people doing it on high mileage vehicles and having to replace parts from the headers back due to all the crap being pushed out. Like, o2's and cats. Never had that issue but I can see how it would happen with the amount of crap that comes out from a heat soak.
I have to be honest that in 27 years of working on my own vehicles and as an engineer I only know the term heat soak as one thing and it has more to do with degraded engine performance while operating rather than some kind of maintenance procedure so maybe you can elaborate. My first Focust ST that had the 2.0 I tried using CRC GDI intake valve cleaner before every oil change (3-5k) for the first 30k miles and it did nothing at all to seemingly clean the valves. I pulled the intake manifold at 30k just to see what was going on and they were very badly caked up. I stopped using the CRC GDI cleaner and when I pulled the intake again at 60k miles the valves seemed no worse off. I would say that as long as you figure out what oil change interval works best for you and your driving style and geo location and oil that you prefer you should be fine with just checking the valves at 30k and cleaning if needed. It's pretty easy to pull the intake manifold off on the 2.0 and I like how much room there is in the front of the engine bay compared to my Focus and Escape. Other than that I wouldn't really bother with any crazy or special kinds of maintenance.
