New Mustang piston slap?

[EazyDuz]

People seem to be losing their minds regarding the 2018 Mustangs having this weird ticking noise making some people reject the car and demand a refund. Good video on it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jwBGIHUrmQ

Anyone have any thoughts on this? It doesnt sound healthy and some have reported total engine failure shortly after the tick began, others have done tens of thousands of miles with the ticking noise there but no other issues.

Weird, I wonder if there will be a recall later down the road

[EazyDuz]

bump

[lee_erm]

Direct injection? My 2.0 TSI sounds like that at idle

[Jimii]

There are lots of theories on this, ford have released a TSB to state it is a normal characteristic of this engine and many have reported getting rid of the noise using a oil additive.

[EazyDuz]

Sounds irregular to me

[thebraketester]

5w20 oil? That must be only just a bit thicker than water.

[GW65]

thebraketester said:

5w20 oil? That must be only just a bit thicker than water.

All in the quest for a few tenths-of-an-MPG in official fuel tests - I blame the government

To be honest, having picked up my MY19 GT last week, I'm not sure how they can hear it over the exhaust noise and the auto-box whine. They should spend more time driving and less time idling and filming - can't be good for an engine sitting there getting hot!

Sadly, many Americans are paranoid, a little gullible, and love a conspiracy theory (the government / big business / the man is out to get ya - you can't believe Ford, but you can believe a forum...)....so all it takes is a few threads on a forum, a few replacement engines (out of the hundreds of thousands of GTs built with the Coyote engine) et voila!