Anyone have any experience with this engine? Wife needs a new kid hauler and looking at news Ford expedition with the 3.5 EcoBoost. Anybody have good/bad experience with it or the new expeditions?. I know it's in a lot of f-150s.
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Originally posted by bowaddict40 View PostAs long as your not pulling a trailer or weighting it down you should be happy with it. Mine got terrible (8mpg) when pulling a small 12' trailer with a quad on it. It would run a hole in the wind though.
MPG does drop off a cliff when towing with it. I get 9 towing my 10,000 tractor, 15 or 16 towing my single axle jon boat, 19 unloaded.
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Originally posted by txpitdog View PostStarted around 45-50k and got progressively worse until at 80k I was adding half a gallon of AF every 1000 miles. Was going to be about $2200 to fix it every time the crappy OEM part wore out, so I ditched the truck and got a 2018 5.0...which has far more problems
I am not even going to ask.
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Originally posted by Rubi513 View PostI have always wondered how that engine would hold up to high mileage.
But I don't consider 94k high mileage either...
There are, no exaggeration, MILLIONS of them on the road.
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