Ford Ranger Turbo Actuator, Genuine VS Aftermarket 

You have the best channel bar none on ranger DIY, super respect dude..

Love your work. I usually come to your channel before going to my workshop manual.

Love this channel. Thank you. Be good to have an electronics engineer explain the differences in the board

Mate:) thanks for taking the time and efforts in putting this video. My experience is also similar to yours. The genuine parts are not only way over priced, they are often ridiculously bundled to extract as much money from the poor buyer. The aftermarket parts are reasonably adequate for the purpose at significantly cheaper prices

Amazing detail on ur videos! Thx so much 4 sharing ur knowledge

You can see the Garret one has the green circuit board on the cog wheel thats for ECU is able to know the position of the wheel and acutuator arm at all times. China one doesnt have it. Has just the plain circuit board. So crap. Thanx for proving it with eveidence to support it.

also i bet adding high temp ceramic brakes grease on the gears would improve its longivity dramatically.

Do you know if the Forscan service procedure to relearn turbo actuator open/close position is functional with Ranger? Doesn't make sense that it would as there is a position feedback (not on the chinee one tho) but the option is still there..?

Awesome videos mate helped me out alot, just purchased a 2014 ranger and loving it so far. what oil would you recommend at 260K kms, stick to the recommended 5W-30 or go a bit thicker?

the chinese one doesn't have the rotary encoder that report the vanes position back to the ecu! and the PCB seems to fool the ecu with false signal regarding its postion! it be intersting how the chinese vs the OEM behave on the sweeping motion while driving! got the same one on my pickup intersting video mate.

what would the fault code associated with an actuator failure be?

They way I see it the Garrett actuator should be more reliable than it actually is and should outlast the mechanicals of a turbo plus the actuator can not be purchased separately. When or if this happens to my ranger i will try the eBay one better than a replacement turbo

they're identical because the Chinese simply copy stuff in the cheapest possible way, for example the missing position encoder, whiches what the extra parts were, without the feedback tho it's more than likely going to throw a code

eBay, China & RU-vid has kept my vehicles going this last 15 + years.

I don't trust the Chinese XD later my turbo is going to blow up

Just another automotive rip off that you cannot replace this part without a whole turbo charger unit