To be fair Ford's small turbos are also notorious for shitting the bed, but mostly due to cooling system failures or the terrible choice of still running a timing belt. (1.0L Ecoboost engines)

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6SixTy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ford's big mistake with the 1.0L Ecoboost wasn't exclusively using a timing belt, it was using a timing belt submerged in oil. They did state that they engineered the rubber to withstand being submerged in oil, but ultimately it didn't really work out like they had hoped.

	▲	olyjohn 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Lol. The most insane thing about the 1.0 is that they switched back to a timing chain due to the belt issues. But guess what? The fuxking oil pump is still driven by a rubber belt submerged in oil... And guess what happens to the oil pump belt? Just mind blowing that they would half ass this fix so badly.

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potato3732842 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>terrible choice of still running a timing belt. (1.0L Ecoboost engines)

3.0 Duramax says hold my beer (for the readers not familiar, it has a wet belt driving the oil pump and it's mounted in the back making proactive replacement prohibitively expensive).

My jaded take is that they're sticking with the wet belt on what's generally a europoor economy car engine in order to force planned obsolecense.