I purchased my metallic black, automatic 2012 Ford 4x4 Dually Extend Cap with the 8 foot bed and 6.7 diesel in April of last year. I have only towed my 15,000 lbs boat and trailer 200 miles. It towed it great, better than my previous Dodge. My ford truck has 28,000 miles on it, where 90% of them are highway traveling to work. My engine blew up yesterday, May 14, 2013. I started the truck, drove it for about a mile before I hit the highway. I gave it a little gas (NOT HAMMERED) to merge into traffic and BANG. I looked in my mirror and saw rubber and metal pieces flying all over the place. The engine stopped and I coasted to a halt. Not knowing what happened, I tried to start my FORD and the engine was locked up. I looked under my truck and there it was, oil pooring all over the concrete. WTF. The truck is under warranty and will be for sale after I get a new engine. Anyone interested? I have a custom stereo and a grill guard. I am going back to a Dodge and getting the Cummings again with the manual 6 speed. That is what I had before, but it got destroyed in a wreck. Great Truck.

So another brand is immune from doing the same?

Apparently so lol

I like that. I needed a laugh. The dealership told me this engine has been around since 2011 and my truck was the 1st one they have seen with this kind of damage to the engine. At least I had over 145,000 miles on my Dodge before I wrecked it. No engine problems, but I did get a crack in my manual transmission housing that had to be welded. No trucks are perfect, but I think I would rather change out a transmisson than an engine when the warranty goes out. I don't trust FORD now.

Urban- Please keep us updated. I have been down on the Ford diesels with all the issues the 6.0 and 6.4 had. But I REALLY was impressed with the 6.7 and thought Ford had really stepped it up with the 6.7. I want to know if it was a casting defect in the block or ?

Wannabe

I don't know if you will really get the full scoop on what happened with it. There have been some rumblings, but very stifled, about the 6.7L blowing up. I don't personally know of any but there have been stories and I'm sure the engine assembly will go straight to R&D for diagnosis.
Ford put a strong effort into this design and incorporated the new graphite technology in the block so I would be very surprised if the block broke. I expect all the mfgrs will eventually use pressed graphite in their blocks.

Cummins is solid and has more stroke that their peers but I am GM biased.
Good luck with the truck.

Just talked to our Equine Dentist who pulls a 28 ft fifth wheel trailer who drives his truck about 50k miles a year and his 2011 6.7 Blew up (valves broke- catastrophic failutrre) 150k miles and Ford has told him T.S. He is looking for an attorney.

Wannabe

The stories are out there just as they are with any other truck on the road.

However, looking at the volume of sales as a proportion to the number of "blown" motors, it's almost a moot point.

I spent two years looking for my 6.7 as I wanted to wait for the "issues" to surface. Also, in comparison to the issues people had with the old Strokers, these are limited.

The big issues that have gotten press on the interwebz have been blocked glow plugs and dropped valves.

Like the poster before, no mfg is immune to issues when you look at the scope and size of production. What I have seen is that Ford has done a pretty good job in stepping up to the plate to rectify any issues.

That really sucks. I have had both Ford and Dodge Diesels (7.3 and 6.7 respectively) and I had good luck with mine. I hope everything works out and they take care of you under warranty.

umm second one i herd of,,i have a friend that builds tow trucks,,he had nothing to drive home so he threw a dealer plate on one of the cab and chassys to drive 10 miles home,,went outside the next cool morning and started the truck and went back inside to finish his breckfast,,the truck idled for 15 minutes,he jumped in it and put it into geat and gave it gas and kaboom..he was like wtf.. oil all over his new concrete driveway and he was pissed,,ford replaced the engine and a section of his driveway..after the engine was installed he had troubles selling the truck but ford gave the guy that bought it a 200k warranty on the moving parts of the engine..