I certainly think it was a phaser issue myself.. That's probably what he's thinking as well.. It can probably be mitigated with different oil, but not solved unfortunately...
Oh wow, it sounds like you are certainly in a specific situation regarding the dealer being so far away.. Do you have any other dealers near by? It certainly doesn't have to be the dealer you purchased it from that is doing the work, but they may help you out a little more with a courtesy...
I don't know if they ever fixed it or not.. Ended up doing a buy back and found a replacement... I waited for months for Ford to say to replace the passenger side turbo.. Of course it didn't fix it.. But it put the truck over the lemon law time period.. Once that process started, my dealer...
So I've heard this noise a few times now and I think I've narrowed it down to the speakers popping when the amp gets powered on in the truck...
The circumstances for it to happen to me..
Platinum w/unleashed
Truck sits overnight - was around 20 hours this time..
Remote start the truck...
Why would you need the tailgate seal with the bedrug? I'm doing a bedrug and had one on my 2013.. I see others talking about adding it as well but I don't understand.. What am I missing? :)
Oh yeah, and I got new tires on my truck.. More aggressive tires make the Platinum wheels look a lot...
I've had two 21's in my possession.. Both had wind noise and whistling over 55mph.. Different locations of the whistling though.. Wondering if it's the fender badges or something.. Haven't really started to look for it yet..
There was a guy that just posted his Mx4 on FB a little bit ago.. Asked for pictures of bulkhead and tailgate.. Didn't really look that much better to me..
I had an armor flex on the 21 truck I just swapped with Ford due to a lemon situation.. I too thought it was a little too short and would have been much better off if it was a couple inches longer front to back... I did play around and rinse off my cover once and didn't really notice any water...
No.. They replaced the passenger side turbo and that didn't solve it. They pretty much gave up and I started the lemon process.. It's probably something simple..
I'm not completely done with the process, but should be soon.. I went and looked at the replacement truck last week.. Just getting the paperwork agreed to at this point.. Sorry you had the same issue.. Did they try to repair it?