Thanks, that's very helpful, I just got the car and have been making up a maintenance schedule. I usually go further than the factory recommendations.The factory 150K timing belt interval seemed way too long for me, I thought about planning to change it no later than 75K miles. Based on your post as a Ford insider, I will probably lean more towards 8 years, especially since I generally put low mileage on a car. I've only been driving about 5k miles a year, although this car is so fun and gets such good gas mileage for a fun car that I hope to put on more. But at 5k miles a year, that would be 15 years to 75K miles, way too long for a timing belt for me. I would rather over-maintain than under-maintain, especially when it comes to risking breaking a timing belt in an interference engine.
I'm curious, do know about what Ford dealers charge for changing a timing belt on a 1.6L Ecoboost engine?
I'm curious, do know about what Ford dealers charge for changing a timing belt on a 1.6L Ecoboost engine?
-Steve