Ford finally came to their senses

[Sysop]

Aluminum won't rust, but it has it's own corrosion/oxidation problems. Having dealt with aluminum on boats for years, I can tell you it's not immune. Unless it's anodized, I don't consider it any better than bare steel.

Having a couple rock chips on the all aluminum front end of my 15 year old Lincoln that have never oxidized, I can feel confident in saying the grade of aluminum used in Ford body parts won't present any issues.

 

[Arc weld]

Aluminum won't rust, but it has it's own corrosion/oxidation problems. Having dealt with aluminum on boats for years, I can tell you it's not immune. Unless it's anodized, I don't consider it any better than bare steel.

They treated the aluminum by electroplating or something as well. I didn't have time to look it up.

 

[RollingsFarms]

Have you actually checked it? Based on my experience those computers don't always give accurate milage.

Not yet, I'm still running on the free tank the dealer gave me. I usually always hand calculate my mileage though and my 14 Silverado was never off by more than .5 a gallon. Hopefully this lie-o-meter is pretty accurate.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Question for ecoboost owners, and anyone else that wants to chime in. I'm reading where most ecoboost owners are doing their first oil change at 1000-2000 miles and then every 5000 after that. The owners manual basically says depending on your usage and environment the truck is used in, you can go 7500 on the FIRST oil change and then every one after that or whatever the oil life monitor calls for. I did see a video on YouTube of a guy with an ecoboost doing an oil change at 2000 miles and his oil was black. I mean diesel oil black. Should I just do the first one at 5000 miles and every 5000 after that or do one at 1000 and then go from there?

We have had 4 in our family now and follow our dealers recommendations of 5k with synthetic. No issues to date.

I think the old adage of oils color is just that, old thinking. I just did a oil change on a boat with 7.9 hrs on a GM 6.2 motor. The motor has 295 hrs total but just 7.9 since last change. It was black as coal. It was Valvoline Synthetic and a K&N filter.

I think the new oils just do a terrific job of cleaning the engine a removing carbon.

Chris

 

[Bird]

Question for ecoboost owners, and anyone else that wants to chime in. I'm reading where most ecoboost owners are doing their first oil change at 1000-2000 miles and then every 5000 after that. The owners manual basically says depending on your usage and environment the truck is used in, you can go 7500 on the FIRST oil change and then every one after that or whatever the oil life monitor calls for. I did see a video on YouTube of a guy with an ecoboost doing an oil change at 2000 miles and his oil was black. I mean diesel oil black. Should I just do the first one at 5000 miles and every 5000 after that or do one at 1000 and then go from there?

This question should get you a lot of opinions. My 2015 had 10086 miles on it when I bought it. It was a demo that had never been registered. My service guy at the dealership pulled it up on their computer and it showed to have had an oil change at 7200 miles. I had the oil & filter changed at 13546 miles, and right now it has 18322 miles on it. So first oil change at 7200, second at 13546 or 6246 miles, and now it's been 4776 miles since the last oil & filter change. I checked the oil yesterday (something I rarely do anymore) and it might have been as much as half a quart below full. The oil life monitor showed 53%. So . . . apparently Ford thinks it can go 10000 between changes.

Now maybe they're right. But some of us are old enough to remember when cars didn't have an oil filter, you changed oil every 1000 miles and if you didn't have to add more than one quart between changes, you had a really fine engine. But they added an oil filter and first thing you know, cars were going 3000 miles between changes, then 5000, then 7500, and now up to 10000.

Now there can be no doubt that the Ford engineers know a great deal more than I, but I reckon I'm just too old to go by that oil life monitor (I'm not sure it's based on anything other than mileage), so I reckon I'll keep changing oil & filter at 5,000 miles, and, yep, it's a synthetic oil, or as Motorcraft labels it, a "Synthetic Blend".

 

[ultrarunner]

My Owners manual for my 1930 Ford pickup is oil change and lube every 500 miles...

 

[RollingsFarms]

My Owners manual for my 1930 Ford pickup is oil change and lube every 500 miles...

It doesn't have an oil filter does it?

 

[flusher]

Where's the bed? My gosh they get smaller and smaller.

A nice looking vehicle. But hardly a work truck. Looks more like a 4-door sedan with a little bitty truck bed stuck on the rear. OK for grocery hauling. I think my '96 Ranger had a larger bed.

 

[ovrszd]

Fact that today's so-called 1/2ton trucks can do the work of the so-called 3/4 ton trucks of ten years ago is where a lot of cost increases on the base models come from.

Where did you get that idea from?

 

[Bird]

It doesn't have an oil filter does it?

I can remember some 1950 models with oil filters, but can't think of any before that with oil filters.

And I did go ahead and let the dealer change the oil and filter in my 2015 F150 this morning.