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re: Microchip Shortage is pounding Ford - F-series outsold by Ram and Silverado
Posted on 7/7/21 at 10:54 am to AUCE05
Posted on 7/7/21 at 10:54 am to AUCE05
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The main complaint is it is a turbo V6. Embarrassing to put a V6 in a full-size truck.
I'm not defending Ford, but they have been doing this for a decade now, and the turbo V6 is the main engine they use now. It's harder to find the 5.0. I had the 5.0 and it was rock solid. Traded it two weeks ago for a Tundra.
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Posted on 7/7/21 at 10:55 am to kywildcatfanone
Maybe that's why they are losing market share?
Posted on 7/7/21 at 10:56 am to AUCE05
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The main complaint is it is a turbo V6. Embarrassing to put a V6 in a full-size truck.
Why?
Posted on 7/7/21 at 10:57 am to OldSouth
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Hafnium: A rare metal used most often in nuclear reactors. It speeds up CPUs.
Tantalum: Used on GPU transistors along with palladium to increase chip storage space.
Palladium
Potassium hydroxide: This chemical, also known as caustic potash, etches a circuit design onto the board.
Aluminum
Gold
Zinc
Iron
Nickel
Copper
These are materials used in conjunction with silicon.
LINK
Tantalum mining and basic processing
Palladium mining
Zinc mining
All of these are heavy metals. While palladium exists in nature in a pure state in places, most of it is reacted with sulfides I believe and requires further processing for obtaining the pure metal. These refining processes, paired with open pit mining for many of the metals, have the potential to be very detrimental for the surrounding environment.
It can be done cleanly. It can be done “cheaply”. It can’t be done both.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 10:58 am to AUCE05
I'd actually consider a mustang if they put that twin turbo V6 in it.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:02 am to AUCE05
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The main complaint is it is a turbo V6. Embarrassing to put a V6 in a full-size truck.
But why?? I have no problem pulling anything I've hooked up to. They have all pulled my trailers just as good as my 2008 that had a 5.4 triton. In your opinion what can't that ecoboost V6 do that a V8 can with the limitations of a 1/2 ton frame.
This post was edited on 7/7/21 at 11:06 am
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:09 am to AUCE05
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The main complaint is it is a turbo V6. Embarrassing to put a V6 in a full-size truck.
Starting next year, there will be no V6 in the Chevrolet Silverado. Your options will be a 2.7L turbo I-4, a 3.0L turbodiesel I-6, and a pair of gas V8s.
That's right....a turbocharged big displacement 4 cylinder is replacing the V6 in the Silverado and the upcoming Colorado. The 2.7L I-4 turbo is every bit as powerful as the old 4.3L V6. In fact, it's more powerful and smoother than the newer 3.6L V6 or the competing gas V6 engines from Nissan and Toyota.
This post was edited on 7/7/21 at 11:12 am
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:23 am to Oilfieldbiology
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. Really bad for the environment where it’s done/really expensive to do it in an environmentally friendly way.
Might be time to break the glass and start doing this ourselves.
But I don't expect current leadership in Washington to be okay with relaxing any draconian EPA rules.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:24 am to goofball
When they do get caught up on microchips, is there going to be a glut of trucks unloaded on the market driving the prices down across the board?
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:26 am to Oilfieldbiology
Thanks
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:27 am to member12
Or, hear me out… go back to making cars without microchips. You know, like all of the best cars ever made up until the last 20 years of turning them into computerized trash.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:28 am to Happygilmore
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When they do get caught up on microchips, is there going to be a glut of trucks unloaded on the market driving the prices down across the board?
The currently inflated used car prices will tank hard, leaving some people with some serious negative equity in their used cars.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:29 am to ForeverEllisHugh
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Or, hear me out… go back to making cars without microchips.
Or at least fewer of them.
Then again, even tool and equipment suppliers are having trouble because of a shortage of small engines (Kawasaki, Briggs, Kholer, etc.). I don't think there are very many chips in those things.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:32 am to ForeverEllisHugh
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Or, hear me out… go back to making cars without microchips. You know, like all of the best cars ever made up until the last 20 years of turning them into computerized trash.
You can thank the government and their emissions/economy standards for this.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:33 am to A Smoke Break
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We outsource most silicone.
Well then Ford should start putting fake titty airbags in their trucks.
And silicon isn't the only thing that goes into chips.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:34 am to member12
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Microchip Shortage is pounding Ford
I can't fap to this.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:34 am to member12
Yay China
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:47 am to member12
Good, no more commercials about them being the number one seller for 40+years
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:48 am to CatsGoneWild
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Good, no more commercials about them being the number one seller for 40+years
GM has sold more pickups than Ford pretty often. But the F-series remained the best selling "model".
Posted on 7/7/21 at 11:49 am to JohnnyKilroy
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The main complaint is it is a turbo V6. Embarrassing to put a V6 in a full-size truck.
Why?
b/c it doesn't make his peepee stand up like a V8
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