r/FordFlex

This has been a project I have been working on for a few months now!!

This is a high flow cold air intake with a built-in "AirRam"

In my words, holds more air so your engine doesn't choke out on itself.

Not sure how much HP this is adding yet, but getting a dyno run booked to figure out how much power this is adding.

But this thing is crazy loud, its soo cool lmao

Anyways, question are welcome! Unfortunately cant include a video clip with pictures. But might make a second post with it!

Anyways, cheers!

What is this attached to the front.

Hey all,

**Sorry for the clickbait 1st pic, if you swipe you can see mine, 1st pic is what she one day could become**

Glad to have found that people are so passionate about the Ford Flex and there is a vibrant community on the good ole interwebs!

A few weeks ago I picked up a 2016 Flex SEL with AWD, non Ecoboost, and the previous owner outfitted a towing kit and drilled slotted rotors, aftermarket wheels, with 148k miles for $3900...

I knew it was too good to be true and really messed up not getting a PPI, or even had the codes read, but no CEL and there were supposedly two other buyers coming to look at her that weekend (FB Marketplace find)

Of course after about 60 miles the CEL came on. The engine bay was spotless, so clean you could eat off of it, which I thought was off. In addition to that, the engine bay was covered with nuts, a squirrel must have somehow used that for its hideout to store all kinds of goodies, was very odd, especially when paired with such a clean engine bay underneath, but aside from that, no chewed up wires and she drove pretty well.

Anyway, after the CEL I had codes pulled, and I have been getting 3 codes, 2 of them were for emissions/bad cats, and instead of pulling the trigger on two expensive cats, I bought 2 02 sensor spacers that have these little miniature cats in the adapter, a tip from a fellow Ford Flex owner.

The third code was for P0012 - Camshaft position timing, Over retarded, Bank 1

Also a past code that was cleared (but not currently showing was P0022 - Camshaft position timing, over retarded, Bank 2

I installed the O2 spacers with mini cats, cleared the codes, and drove about 60 miles. I then tried to get her inspected to pass emissions, but it was still not showing ready, and so I planned to drive 10 miles more each trip until it would show ready status, hopefully before the emissions CEL code came back.

Unfortunately, about 8 miles later the CEL came back on, but not for the emissions (hopefully those spacers are doing their job, but who knows after 100-200+ miles) ... It was again for the Camshaft timing, Bank 1

A couple questions:

As I have no idea the maintenance of the vehicle (previous owner ghosted after I made the purchase, that's FB marketplace for ya! 😫), I am assuming no major services like water pump or timing chain has been done, just oil changes (although who knows with the rotors being swapped, maybe they were really up on maintenance)

With that being said, how should I go about getting her back in tip top shape. My first priority is getting her to pass inspection so I can at least drive her. Is there any way to do that without tearing her down to replace these camshaft solenoids, and likely water pump and timing chain while I am in there?

I did notice during the first couple tanks of gas I put through her that once or twice the CEL would go away, and then come back a few miles later. Is there any possibility that I could thread the needle and hope that I can reset codes, after a recommendation to change oil to exact Ford spec, and drive until the emissions are in ready status and not trigger the CEL?

Has anyone experienced a similar situation to this? Any advice?

I really appreciate it!

2016 SEL with 115000 miles. Sounds a little rough to me but I'm not an expert.

I recently connected my dashcam to our new Mazda CX-50 using the ODB connector and ran into problems.

The 12v socket (cigarette lighter) in the dash does not stay powered on when the car is off. This means my dashcam won’t record if someone hits me while parked.

I bought an ODB - USB plug for the car. It didn’t fit into the ODB connector because of the trim. I bought a 6” ODB extension and I was able to plug it in and it worked.

BUT the car was dead the next time we went to use it. Had it jumped and it happened again.

We took the car to Mazda and they said the problem is the ODB plug. They said the ODB plug was sending signals to the car causing it to keep the electrical systems active and that was draining the battery.

The tech at Mazda said that our car, and many new cars come with a battery that is adequate. He noted that we aren’t the first people to have this problem. His solution: replace our new battery (valued at $300) with a higher capacity battery that was around $400-450.00. We didn’t do that.

I took the ODB plug out and googled the pin specs for ODB port power.
Using a pair of small needle nose pliers I pulled out pins that transmit data to the car. See photo.
I left the two end pins on the top and bottom and the two center pins on the top row. For the geeks, I left pins 1, 4, 5, 8 on top and pins 9 and 16 on the bottom.

I’ve had it in the car for several days and have not had any problems.

When we are going to be gone for a long time we can flip a switch near the dashcam to turn it off and on without going under the dash to the orb port.

Your favorite online store sells the ODB plug, ODB extension and (in my photo) a USB-C to USB-C switch.

This gotta off. Amyone else gotta pic?

When I’m accelerating there’s always this toying in the revs, it’s uncomfortable because the truck fans a lot

Love these things. I put over 120k on mine (now at 220k) so when the AC compressor died I got a newer version. Looking to lower the ride, open to suggestions for lowering kits/coilovers.

Howdy fellow flex users!!

I've been enjoying my 2015 limited AWD and coming up

on a fluid service as its recommended every 30k miles

But stumbled upon a form of someone who took a tarus

PP PTU and swapped it with there explorer.

It adds watercooling to the ptu so it stays wayyy cooler!

Just woundering if any of yall have tryed this??

Just want to keep my flex as health as possible

(I like to be a lil heavy on the throttle and scared ima blow it up XD)

Thanks interested in what yall think!