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That's on the newest gen 5.0, and I honestly have no issue with it. They've tested it out to something like 1100 HP and loads of miles with no issue. The 5.0 isn't the problem in the F150. It's everything around it.

If I could twinkle my nose and have that 5.0 paired with the Aisin in my Tundra I'd do it in a heartbeat. The 5.0 is really good.

 

You didn't have a coherent point because I never suggested the thing you were attacking. But, you directly called my suggestion to use AI as a research tool retarded, and implied that I advocate replacing personal research entirely with AI even though I never did. Then claimed this absurd. The absurdity was you trying to use me as a straw man representing AI.

 

With Ford’s quality control and overall excesses spent on warranty issues, I would not trust it. Plastic, one-use oil pan right underneath it? No thanks. Lots of discussion out there on wet belt issues.

 

Oh, if you want to try and argue semantics to salvage your position, we can play that game.


I didn't say your suggestion was retarded, I said AI is retarded. I said that your suggestion was bad advice. See receipt.

I then pointed out that you are ignoring a qualifier that AI summaries themselves point out, and that is that AI can include mistakes. See receipt.

You then provided more summaries with known errors and mistakes from AI, and I said that those mistakes highlight how outsourcing critical thinking is retarded. You are saying that I implied that you were advocating that, but if you are going to infer that implication and we stay intellectually consistent then your initial statement that the AI should be used is also "implying" that you take the AI summary at face value. That WOULD be outsourcing the critical thinking. Either both are implied or neither are. You can't have it both ways.

And, yes, taking the AI summary at face value even though they all are prone to inaccuracies is an absurd practice.

There is no straw man, and you are not representing AI. You are suggesting AI be used instead of doing the research yourself, and that is bad advice because AI is retarded and gets things wrong on a regular basis, conflates unrelated statements to bolster its flawed premise, and saying otherwise is absurd.

 

The oil pan on the current 5.0 is steel. The plug is plastic, however.

Yes, there are discussions on wet belt issues going back decades. There have also been these wet belts in the 5.0 since the 2021 model year and I could not find a single problem or issue stemming from them on the engine. Only complaints about past wet belt technologies being problematic. There are plenty of trucks with over 100K miles that have had no issues with it. Not saying I'm a fan over the gear driven one they had before, but there's also no evidence of issues in this application.