OT: Ford F150 Ecoboost

Anyone own the ecoboost, and how do you like it??

Looking at the crew cab, 6.5ft box w/3.55 axles.

I"ve driven a couple and am impressed with how snappy they are. Just wondering how they are holding up for guys that have some miles on them.
BW
 
Given how the EPA and other obammy huggers are over extending their authority. And how they have choked the diesel with regulations. The direct injection gassers look like a viable alternative .Until the EPA adds more regulations to gasoline. The end goal is to eliminate personal vehicles.
 
BW Have 12 equipped just like you are talking about. Driving consist of 70 mile round trip over to next town and ever now and then will pull a trailer with a KUBOTA rtv or something. No heavy hauling but I am not a light foot driver.
Was running the 5 something v8 before. This vehicle has more get up and go. When you hit a long hill will just stay in 6th gear longer. Right now at 26,000 + miles if you hit the gas MPG on the dash over all never been tripped since it was new it reads 18.6 or so. But on some separate trips of 1200 miles or so I have had it read well over 20. If you change your own oil Ford moved the requirements on out but require senthic oil. Has a screwy air dam under the engine that has to be removed but all in all I love the trucks. I usually run around 65,000 miles and trade ever two years but am thinking I might stretch this one till the 15s with new body style comes out.
 
Neighbor has one. He gets up to 30 miles a gallon. He said it takes some getting use to because it has some power, He has had at least 10 F150's in the 20 years I have known. He said nothing compares to it
 
A coworker has one. our familys go rv'ing together. i have a ram 2500 diesel with a 29 ft travel trailer. he has a ecoboost 150 and a 26 ft travel trailer. he can keep up pretty well. he hasnt noted any problems yet.
 
Wow, you are negative! Did you see on the news this morning how bad the air pollution is in Salt Lake City. It is not recommended to exercise or do anything strenuous outside, it looks as bad as china. We need to do something!
 

You can do some pretty amazing thigs with a turbo-charger and fuel injection, and while adding a turbo-charger to a V6 can easily give it the performance of a larger V8, you will never get a V6 engine to run as smoothly as a V8.

Just my opinion, and you are all entitled to yours, but I just don't like how a V6 runs.
 
The latest and great highway vehicle emission controls have 't made conditions better. How is even tighter regs going to make a difference. Air pollution from vehicles is a minor issue. The primary sources are volcanoes, methane from swamps and other natural sources. And un regulated third world industry.
 
Bought one last year. 4x4 Crew Cab with 5.5 foot box....best truck so far that I have owned.

I do get 22 mpg when empty and not bucking a wind. I average 18.5 with the box loaded, and pulling a 8" trailor loaded with wood. It doesn"t feel as if I am pulling anything.

I work with a guy that has F150 with the Triton engine. His wife has F150 Ecoboost....he says the Ecoboost will drive circles around his truck.

I work with another guy whose son is an engineer at Ford who helped design the engine...of course, he says it is the best engine Ford ever built....:>)

So far, I have had no issues with it and would buy another one if I could afford it. My wife won"t let me drive it because she likes it so much..:>)

Tim
 
Actually if you check it out most of the air pollution in the US is from small factories that have both state and federal EPA waivers. Seems that 100's of thousands of jobs would go by by is they tried forcing those factories to shut down or clean up (which at the cost would force them to shut down). Don't take my word for it. Do some research on line. Try to stay away from both extremes, the serious tree huggers and the burn the works type sites. But people see vehicles all over and they are easy to blame.

AS far as the original post, guy in town who is a regional sales guy for farm chemicals got one about 6 months ago. He has a real heavy foot. He has only one complaint......too many tickets! He says it is very easy to speed in. Claims about 21 MPG with the way he drives.

Rick
 
Mister T, You should take one for a drive, they are quieter and as smooth or smoother than any V8 out there. I have one and it pulls my 9500 lb. tractor better than all the other trucks i've had and has really good get up and go. Chuck
 
The 1991 eruption of Mt Pinatubo in the Phillipines ejected over 10 billion tons of magma and 22 million tons of sulphur dioxide plus vast quantities of minerals and metals contained in an aerosol cloud which it injected into the stratosphere and covered the entire globe. It amounted to more toxic pollutants than man has caused man's history on earth. All it did was give us nice pretty sunsets for about three years. Mt Pinatubo, as large an eruption as it was, was exceeded in volume by the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. And then there was Novarupta in 1912. That was larger than Pinatubo, or, 30 times the size of the Mt St Helens eruption. There have been hundreds, probably thousands, of these eruptions in earth's history. For mere men to think they are equal to these collossal natural events is folly.
 
I have one only 3K on it so far. Milage is OK. I ain't seeing no 30 MPG like someone above posted. My truck drops quite a bit when you hook any trailer to it. I don't drive it hard at all. Overall average for the last 2K miles is about 17.8. about 1/2 OF that has been pulling a boat or small trailer with 1K or less load on it. I am in the north western part of Middle Tennessee so there are a lot of hills. I can drive it down to Nashville and will get better mileage going down than coming back. Mine is the 4 door truck with the 6.5 bed and I think it has 3.73 gearing don't remember for sure. I can say this for sure it is a good riding and driving vehicle. I am part deaf and this is the first vehicle I have owned that I can really hear the radio in. Love SIRUS and the Willie Nelson station.
 
I am always skeptical of "new and improved". I hope they do hold up for those that own them.
But given Ford's track record with BAD engine designs,plus anytime you put high output into a smaller and smaller package the life gets shorter and shorter. That's all alum. too isn't it ? Never seen any all alum. designs hold up very long. Too much expansion and contraction takes the gaskets out of them. Alum. heads on cast iron blocks are bad enough for head gasket failures.
 
That 30 is probably off the mileage thing in the cab.That's what you wish you could get.To get actual you check it when you fill up.I can let off the gas going down hill with my wife's honda and it says 70 mpg.
 
Chuck That is exactly what I was going to tell him. If anything the quite and smooth is worth just as much as the additional millage. I am not sure about his remark about V6s. Wife has had several in Ford Escapes and they were pretty smooth and this one sure is smooth and quite.
 
(quoted from post at 19:31:24 01/25/13) Mister T, You should take one for a drive, they are quieter and as smooth or smoother than any V8 out there. I have one and it pulls my 9500 lb. tractor better than all the other trucks i've had and has really good get up and go. Chuck

Sorry, but I've driven plenty of vehicles equipped with V6 engines. The last one was a 2008 Chevy Equinox, and the first one was a 1968 GMC 7500 with the 401 magnum.
 
Thank you for all the responses. I appreciate the insights.

I swore I"d never buy a brand new truck, but right now trucks in the 2-3 yr old range 25-50k miles are pricing close to what the new ones are. If I don"t go nuts on options and buy one of the ones they have on hand, it seems to make some sense. I checked on a used 2011 with 25k miles on it at another dealership. It needed tires. After the cost of new rubber, it is less than $2000 difference to buy new.

Dunno what to do yet, gotta let it all roll around in my brain for a couple days, I think.
If it"s a good deal today, it"ll still be a good deal tomorrow.

Thanks again BW
 
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(quoted from post at 19:31:24 01/25/13) Mister T, You should take one for a drive, they are quieter and as smooth or smoother than any V8 out there. I have one and it pulls my 9500 lb. tractor better than all the other trucks i've had and has really good get up and go. Chuck

Sorry, but I've driven plenty of vehicles equipped with V6 engines. The last one was a 2008 Chevy Equinox, and the first one was a 1968 GMC 7500 with the 401 magnum.
pples and oranges, drive one and you will see what we are talking about. chuck
 
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(quoted from post at 01:36:31 01/26/13)
(quoted from post at 19:31:24 01/25/13) Mister T, You should take one for a drive, they are quieter and as smooth or smoother than any V8 out there. I have one and it pulls my 9500 lb. tractor better than all the other trucks i've had and has really good get up and go. Chuck

Sorry, but I've driven plenty of vehicles equipped with V6 engines. The last one was a 2008 Chevy Equinox, and the first one was a 1968 GMC 7500 with the 401 magnum.
pples and oranges, drive one and you will see what we are talking about. chuck
es, everybody & his brother has a V6 design and many are worlds apart. Some 90 degree "v", some 60, some odd numbers such as 72.5 degrees and some even firing, some not even firing, some with splayed/offset crank journals, some with balance shafts, some not, and on & on. A good one designed without constraints tying it to old V8 tooling (clean sheet of paper) & they are smooth as silk. Compromised designs can be real shakers.
 
A friend of mine has one, The F-150 with the ecoboost. He likes it. I dont know the MPG or the cost of the thing.
 
Did you see the pictures from Beijing the other day on the news? Was so bad they claimed a building burned for 3 hours before anyone noticed. They couldn't see the smoke in all the smog. I remember going to Denver in the winter on different times. They had a brown cloud that you could barely see the mountains. Last time I was there it looked pretty fresh but it might have been a good day.
 
please elaborate on Ford's bad engine designs, I have had Ford pickups engines from a 352 to a 5.4 and they have always treated me good, my 95 F150 with a 5.0 was geared too high and was kind of a dog that took plenty of gas but it had 270,000 on it when I sold it
 
Hey 8N'r--WI, I don't think an 8 inch trailer would make much difference either, even loaded with wood. Sorry, couldn't resist. My friend has ones of these trucks and he is pretty pleased with his truck, it ain't no work truck, but a good go to town ride. I don't think the mileage is that great though, my boy has a '97 chevy half ton 4WD with a 350 V8, I checked the mileage the other day and he got 14 MPG in that dog, thats with 140,000 miles on it. The Ford engine that is giving fits right now is the Ford designed and built late model diesels, I think either 6.0 or 6.4 liter, stay far away from those.
 
I've heard similar reports as below when I ask about the eco boost engines. I wish they'd make one for the super-duty's.
 
Well lets see Ford bad engine designs:

1) The early 5.4 blowing the spark plugs out of the heads. Many need to have the complete cylinder heads replaced because of this issue.

2) The 4.0 V-6 timing chain guides that wear out at about 75 K and drop metal shaving into your oil pan/pump. Many start to knock at 80-90K.

3) The Infamous 6.0 diesel. Ford admits it spent over one billion dollars in warranty issues on this boat anchor of a motor.

4) The 6.4 diesel With EGR cooler problems,head gaskets, timing gear covers eat away with coolant. Plus many other coolant related issues.
 
I couldn't afford an Eco-boost but didn't really need one either. All the Eco-boosts were crew cabs with more options than I needed. I got the standard 3.7 300+ HP V6 in a Supercab and it has more than enough get up and go. A good friend is a Ford tech. and says the Eco-boost is proving to be a very reliable and excellent engine. I think if you put 98% of people in either of the V6 Fords, made them wear ear plugs and let them go for a test ride, they wouldn't be able to say they were driving a V6. I don't see how a V8 would be any smoother than a V6. Actually a straight 6 is supposed to be the smoothest engine but my V6 is super quiet unless you step on it and it downshifts 3 or 4 gears.
 
BW, I have a 2011 Ford Edge w/ the V6 ONLY difference between the Eco-boost and mine is the Twin-Turbos and the Mods and such needed to run properly. I have put over 40,000 miles on it in 2012 alone I am very impressed. It get 20/22 mpg according to the computer regularly.
I would rather have a lot more motor if I pulled trailer lot! but the small trailer, or 16 ft GN cattle trailer to the auction I wouldn't be scared at all.
Just this AM on Speed TV, Trucks TV Show They talked about and what to do to improve MPG on the Eco-Boost F-150 3 area will help it a LOT.
#1 Air Out, Heart-Throb's Cat-back Exhaust system. Fords is very restrictive. The change out got 38 extra Horses and 50ft lbs of torque.
#2 Super chips Tuner for it
#3 Air Raids Cold air intake kit
According to the Trucks TV show this AM these 3 mods will help it a whole lot if Milage is concerned. Hope this helps
Later,
John A.
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Don't get twisted with the Non-Ford Drivers below
listen those who run them and have and will not leave Ford. Yep Ford has had some failures So has GM and Dodge... Ford Took NO Bail Out Money!!!!
11 Fords in a row now since 1988
Later, JAS
 
(quoted from post at 15:52:17 01/25/13) please elaborate on Ford's bad engine designs, I have had Ford pickups engines from a 352 to a 5.4 and they have always treated me good, my 95 F150 with a 5.0 was geared too high and was kind of a dog that took plenty of gas but it had 270,000 on it when I sold it

There are folks on here that hate anything that was made by ford, tractors,cars,trucks or a ford trimotor.Like you I've put hundreds of thosands miles on ford vehicles with next to no engine problems.
 
(quoted from post at 15:28:46 01/26/13)
(quoted from post at 15:52:17 01/25/13) please elaborate on Ford's bad engine designs, I have had Ford pickups engines from a 352 to a 5.4 and they have always treated me good, my 95 F150 with a 5.0 was geared too high and was kind of a dog that took plenty of gas but it had 270,000 on it when I sold it

There are folks on here that hate anything that was made by ford, tractors,cars,trucks or a ford trimotor.Like you I've put hundreds of thosands miles on ford vehicles with next to no engine problems.

I do not hate Fords. In fact, A Ford was my vehicle of choice for many years, including a 1963 F100, a 1970 Torino Cobra, a 1980 Ford Fiesta, a 1976 F100 Explorer, and a 1971 F100 which was purchased brand new by my father.

I might still be driving Fords if it weren't for the fact that FoMoCo had the audacity to place some very unrealistic demands on ALL of our local dealers. Demands which were totally financially unresponsible, so ALL of those dealers just closed up and walked away. To put it all in a nutshell, it was Ford that turned their back on me, not the other way around.
 

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