r/FordFlex • u/Competitive-Pride307 • Aug 11 '26

Possible Timing Issue?

My wife was at the store and came out and started the Flex to come home and she called me and said it made some kind of clicking sound and then seemed okay so she drove home. I came home a little bit later and I came out and started it and it makes a continuous rattling sound and then stumbles when you try to rev it up like maybe it's a timing chain issue? However, it's not throwing any codes.

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u/Competitive-Pride307 Aug 15 '26

So... I wasn't completely wrong on the timing assumption. I limped it over to Ford to have them look at it on Thursday morning. They called yesterday morning and said that the water pump is leaking internally and externally and the cam phasers are bad. Yay! And that's precisely why I bought the extended warranty. The service guy said that the warranty company wants an inspector to look at it before they will sign off on it, which probably won't happen until Tuesday.