Hello all. I'm bored and would love to share my experience with this fine piece of machinery. Bought in TX, I was looking for a car because someone made me rear-end them my '06 Escape. I wanted something I could be proud of and have fun driving. Wasn't expecting dude to sell me a POS but I seem to love learning the hard way. Drove that mf from TX about 200-300miles with a loose swing mount, multiple leaks, stripped out and loose throttle body elbow clamp from the TMIC, and no 2nd gear. But I got warranty with the purchase so new trans was only $100 deductible(me:1 ms3:4). So I wasn't tripping on 2nd gear because dude said "We put new clutch and turbo in" which kinda eliminated 2 big concerns. But the more I've taken everything apart, the more I keep finding. I've had a P0300 which I had to put in new(all parts are usually from the dealer unless otherwise stated)spark plugs and tighten the boost line fitting that goes on top of the CS Power series 3" Intake. Ran better but I did do a PCM update because there is a TSB stating if the update doesn't fix it and there's no driveability issues, replace the Dual Mass Flywheel. Expensive repair right.? Well everytime I checked for misfire data, there were a few here and there, for some reason mostly on cylinder 3. Never felt a miss though, like a hard obvious misfire. But when I did my transmission under warranty, I ate it and spent some of my settlement money from the Escape on the XClutch StreetPlus Kit. Only a little bit more extra in relevance to the total cost of the first option on CS, and better than OE. Well it came with a flywheel and that seems to have fixed it. HOWEVER......I found some small scratches on the turbo compressor housing so I'm hoping warranty will help me out before it's out... AND I gotta do oil pan re-seal because I've done every single seal up top, valve cover, HPFP, and the turbo isnt leaking but I swear it looks like rear main seal(anyone ever seen that..?). But the issue with that is I just did rear main seal and there's a small hole at the very bottom of the pan/trans where it seems to be dripping from but I can clearly see the corner of the pan leaking. So with all that said and done... hopefully all we got left is oil pan and turbo before critical damage occurs to all my hard effort :'/ Just hoping that rear main isn't leaking on the new clutchyyy............. 
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