Steve Tanner
Member
Long-time lurker here, finally had something curious enough (to me, at least) to post about.
I bought a 2017 XLT EL back in November with 49k on it after our 2007 XLT got totaled. It was a rental, but looked and even still smells new. Not even two years old, as it was initially manufactured in May of 2017. Anyway...
A month ago my son was driving and got the wrench on the display and no throttle control. He pulled over and called me, and I told him to 'reboot' the car since I had read about that on the forum here. I checked for codes with Forscan and there weren't any, but he eventually confessed that he was "kinda racing some dude in a ricer" (which the EB completely owned) prior to it happening. I chalked it up to teenage stupidity and it didn't happen again, including a 350 mile trip up to the mountains until yesterday when it happened to my wife 3 times.
I took it out later and it won't go 1/2 mile before it happens, and it finally threw a P2112. It runs really rough when it happens too, the engine surges and shakes and has a really strange tone like the TB is open but it's controlling RPM by starving it of fuel. Oddly, the misfire counts stay at zero but that could be a limp-mode artifact.
I ordered a new TB and gasket from the dealer up the street, part BL3Z-9E926-B, which they'll have first thing in the morning. I pulled the old one off tonight and that's when I noticed that the old TB's abel doesn't match what I ordered.
It says BL3E-9F991-AH, which the Google tells me is for the 11-17 Edge 3.7L, 11-15 Mustang, and a few others.
As far as I can tell this is the TB that came with the car. The VIN service history didn't show any TB repair under warranty, and everything looked "factory new" when I started on it tonight. No marks on the TB bolts or any other indication it had ever been touched before.
Did Ford really install some old-stock or "wrong" TB on the car? It looks the same as the right part, and there is some indication that that part number might have been used on Navigators in the last few years.
Has anyone else looked at the part label on their TB?
I bought a 2017 XLT EL back in November with 49k on it after our 2007 XLT got totaled. It was a rental, but looked and even still smells new. Not even two years old, as it was initially manufactured in May of 2017. Anyway...
A month ago my son was driving and got the wrench on the display and no throttle control. He pulled over and called me, and I told him to 'reboot' the car since I had read about that on the forum here. I checked for codes with Forscan and there weren't any, but he eventually confessed that he was "kinda racing some dude in a ricer" (which the EB completely owned) prior to it happening. I chalked it up to teenage stupidity and it didn't happen again, including a 350 mile trip up to the mountains until yesterday when it happened to my wife 3 times.
I took it out later and it won't go 1/2 mile before it happens, and it finally threw a P2112. It runs really rough when it happens too, the engine surges and shakes and has a really strange tone like the TB is open but it's controlling RPM by starving it of fuel. Oddly, the misfire counts stay at zero but that could be a limp-mode artifact.
I ordered a new TB and gasket from the dealer up the street, part BL3Z-9E926-B, which they'll have first thing in the morning. I pulled the old one off tonight and that's when I noticed that the old TB's abel doesn't match what I ordered.
It says BL3E-9F991-AH, which the Google tells me is for the 11-17 Edge 3.7L, 11-15 Mustang, and a few others.As far as I can tell this is the TB that came with the car. The VIN service history didn't show any TB repair under warranty, and everything looked "factory new" when I started on it tonight. No marks on the TB bolts or any other indication it had ever been touched before.
Did Ford really install some old-stock or "wrong" TB on the car? It looks the same as the right part, and there is some indication that that part number might have been used on Navigators in the last few years.
Has anyone else looked at the part label on their TB?
