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Originally Posted by bhtooefr
EA211 has an aluminum block, though, and oil pan 4 was talking about mixed material engines using these strategies being a bad idea. Valid for EA888 Gen 3, though, that is a mixed material engine. (Also, by US standards, EA888 Gen 2.5 (we don't get the true Gen 3, IIRC) has been considered unreliable (then again, basically every recent VW engine other than the EA113 2.0 8v is unreliable by US standards), although not for that reason.)
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Ford 1.0 ecoboost has an iron block and seems to be an perfectly reliable engine. What kind of problems there are with EA888 Gen 2.5? At least here in Europe VW's recent offerings seem to work just fine.