Why does everyone rant and rave about the EcoBoost?

[TomSeller]

Well it should. The F150 Eco boost probably weighs 3000lbs less and about 130lbs less torque. Your 7.3 was only rated 240hp and about 500lbs torque. Pretty low output for engine size. The 7.3 was a good engine but fell behind in the power department, was other brands came in.

Sure wouldn't pull as much as the 99 I bet.

Maybe not but it will do it for 500K reliable miles with average maintenance. Hard to fault the 7.3 given the vintage.

 

[farm boy00]

Maybe not but it will do it for 500K reliable miles with average maintenance. Hard to fault the 7.3 given the vintage.

And a transmission around 200,000-300,000 miles. Don't ask. Family have owned 2 99s f250 both needed transmissions and so did the neighbors

 

[Cord]

Also are you saying you change your lube oil at 10k mile intervals in your Boost?!? If that's the case I pity the sucker that buys the truck after you've had it.

I have a '11 and 10,000 miles is the recommended interval. Even the oil life monitor comes in right at 9,300-9,700 miles. I'm not aware of a change to the recommended interval on the newer vehicles. Got 132,000 on it right now.

 

[LA Confederate]

I have a '11 and 10,000 miles is the recommended interval. Even the oil life monitor comes in right at 9,300-9,700 miles. I'm not aware of a change to the recommended interval on the newer vehicles. Got 132,000 on it right now.

Yes the manual says never to exceed 1 year or 10k miles and to do it when the computer says to do so. However I don't know a single person that would be that carefree to go that long. The lube oil is the life's blood of the motor. Having good clean oil in your engine is essential to longevity and performance. This is especially crucial to a sophisticated forced induction engine as these. It's also cheap insurance from wear and damage. All I can say is good luck to whoever buys the truck after you've had it.

 

[bdog]

The ecoboost was advertised as being the best thing since sliced bread. I bought one in 2012, my first new truck ever. I got rid of it a few months later because it stunk so bad. It had all the power in the world but the MPGs were no where near advertised. I was getting 5 mpg pulling relatively light trailers and couldn't drive much over 150 miles on a tank of gas. It was ridiculous. Our other work trucks traveling in our convoy were 5.4 F-250s pulling twice the weight I was and they would still have half a tank when I was needing to stop for fuel.

 

[TomSeller]

I was getting 5 mpg pulling relatively light trailers

I am having hard time wrapping my head around this.

 

[bdog]

I am having hard time wrapping my head around this.

It was an 18' bumper pull utility trailer with a yamaha rhino and a honda four wheeler on it. I got 4-6 mpg pulling it at 70 mph.

Empty the truck only got 12.

I took it back to the dealer and they could find nothing wrong. They blamed the poor mpgs on the fact that I had a grill guard, a tool box and diesel tank, and mud grip tires. The tires were slightly larger than stock but nothing extreme and it did not have a lift or anything like that. It was a 4x4 crew cab with the longer bed. They said the increased weight and air drag from the grill guard caused the turbo to always be spooled up burning more fuel.

I loved the truck it was a lariat and very nice, drove nice, was real peppy and I wanted to keep it but the mpgs were horrible. I bought it because of a friend who had one bone stock with no tool box no anything on it he drove it around like the day he got it from the dealer and he got close to 20 mpg empty. His was a shortbed.

It was so bad that on a trip to a job about 600 miles away once I got there after filling up 4 times I traded it in during the middle of the job on our first day off due to rain.

 

[Diamondpilot]

It was an 18' bumper pull utility trailer with a yamaha rhino and a honda four wheeler on it. I got 4-6 mpg pulling it at 70 mph. Empty the truck only got 12. I took it back to the dealer and they could find nothing wrong. They blamed the poor mpgs on the fact that I had a grill guard, a tool box and diesel tank, and mud grip tires. The tires were slightly larger than stock but nothing extreme and it did not have a lift or anything like that. It was a 4x4 crew cab with the longer bed. They said the increased weight and air drag from the grill guard caused the turbo to always be spooled up burning more fuel. I loved the truck it was a lariat and very nice, drove nice, was real peppy and I wanted to keep it but the mpgs were horrible. I bought it because of a friend who had one bone stock with no tool box no anything on it he drove it around like the day he got it from the dealer and he got close to 20 mpg empty. His was a shortbed. It was so bad that on a trip to a job about 600 miles away once I got there after filling up 4 times I traded it in during the middle of the job on our first day off due to rain.

You had a lemon. We have 3 in the family and mine gets the worst average mpg at around 17. Both my uncle and father average better than 20.

Chris

 

[flusher]

I have not driven an ecoboost pickup, but we do have a 2014 ecoboost Escape SE with the 2.0L engine. We bought it on 6/23/2014 with 16175 miles on it. It had been an Oklahoma rental car. We have put a little over 20k miles on it ourselves; absolutely trouble free so far. Mileage on individual tanks of gas has gone more than 28 mpg with several over 27 mpg, but since most of our driving is short distances locally, using the air-conditioner, our overall mileage since we've owned it has been 24.685 mpg. It's supposed to have the system that will tell me when it needs an oil change, and may go 10k miles supposedly, but I just can't bring myself to let one go that long, so the oil change light has never come on, and I let the dealer change the oil & filter at 5k miles.

I think it's the dandiest little car I've owned, plenty of pep and power, good handling, and all the bells and whistles I'd ever want. Of course it may die tomorrow, but so far, so good.:laughing: I'll probably replace the original tires early next year.

My 2012 Ford Escape (3L Flex Fuel) gets 24 mpg around town and 27 on the freeways burning 87 octane gas. My son is able to get about 29 mpg on the freeway driving it the way he drives his Prius.

 

[buickanddeere]

Don't know. Not impressed with the new engines.

Blame the voters who elected the politicians who gave the EPA free reign to enact what ever regulations they wanted .