[Tdog02]

After 23,000 miles the hankooks are at 8/32. Even wear and look to go 60k miles easy. Quiet and smooth. I would not have picked this tire but the results are pretty impressive. My truck sees nothing but highway miles and this tire works. It’s not trendy but it does a damn good job as a truck tire.

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[mwemaxxowner]

After 23,000 miles the hankooks are at 8/32. Even wear and look to go 60k miles easy. Quiet and smooth. I would not have picked this tire but the results are pretty impressive. My truck see highway miles and this tire works. It’s not trendy but it does a damn good job as a truck tire.

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I know everyone hates them, but the Wranglers are serving me well. I have 40k, and it looks like I'll get 10k more. I've only rotated about half as often as I should.

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[Tdog02]

I know everyone hates them, but the Wranglers are serving me well. I have 40k, and it looks like I'll get 10k more. I've only rotated about half as often as I should.

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I am looking at a set of take-off Wranglers.. that’s good to know.

 

[mwemaxxowner]

I cannot honestly make any complaints. I've been off the beaten path a few times on them and haven't been stuck either. Even though it's far from an off road tire.

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[eracer]

I have a brand new set for sale.

 

[eracer]

I have a brand new set of the Wranglers for sale.

 

[mwemaxxowner]

Are you seeing start up smoke like this being normal? Just trying to establish a base line. I swear I don't recall this much last winter, but I could be wrong. It also doesn't go away when the outside temp is cold enough. It gets to be much less than this, but when I stop it will still do it after 45 min of driving.

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[mass-hole]

Oh yeah. I know it's not "good" for sure. Not to hijack the op's thread, as I've been round and round this forum about my issues and have come up with nothing, but I've gotten every opinion from "that's normal for an ecoboost", to "Don't even drive it to work tomorrow, it may not make it."

The latter was 15000 miles ago. Lol. It seems plausible to me that excessive oil/fuel/whatever this is being drawn into the cylinders under boost could defeat the purpose that direct injection serves. Pulling combustible liquids in when it isn't planning for it. A catch can didn't fix it, so I'm all out of ideas. I'm not spending $400+ on a different style can either. I compression tested 1,4,5,6 and all were 160-165 psi warm. I don't know what spec is but they were all nearly identical. No leak down test though, I don't have the equipment.

Other than this it's a great truck. I get great fuel mileage. I might get a ping now and then that I hear. I love zipping through traffic in sport mode.

My oil level doesn't drop a noticeable amount within my 5000 mile interval. Perhaps it builds up in the charge pipes to look like more than it really is.

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I don't see how that is not normal. the amount of crap the catch cans come up with on these trucks is astounding. And I seriously doubt the catch can is 100% efficient, otherwise, what would explain the massive variation between winter and summer catch can volumes. In the summer I can go several thousand miles without draining but in the winter I cant even make 1000. That cold winter air just helps condense out the blow by gases.

The intercooler is probably a super efficient catch can to. You have nice cold air blowing over a fairly efficient heat exchanger, its probably going to condense out a large portion of any gases that makes it past the catch can. And it you dont have one its probably catching almost everything the engine spits out. Just based on the volume that comes out of my can every 1000 miles, I cant imagine why the intercooler wouldnt be constantly full of crap.

 

[Tdog02]

Took the babyboost on a journey yesterday, about 280 miles round trip to pick up the wife’s car.
Returning home after visiting family she struck a raised center median and blew out both left side tires. I was just home from work and went to get her and the daughter. Holiday weekend and odd ball size tires meant the car wasn’t going anywhere till Monday.
Yesterday I rented a tow dolly and went to get the car. I also bought 4 wheels and tires from discount tire to put on the car.
The F150 hauled the combo back with an avg speed of about 60-65 mph. Fuel economy was around 19 mpg for the trip. I used tow/haul setting and was impressed with the trans shifting and down-shifting to assist braking. Trans temp never rose above 203. Unless there were hills the trans easily shifted into 6th gear, occasionally dropping to 5th as needed.
I have to say it was uneventful towing and took a little of the sting of buying 4 wheels and tires for the wife’s car away.

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[neecoboost]

Bought a left over 2016 last December and 11k miles later and the Long Block is being replaced due to oil consumption. TSB 17-2077 . My confidence in Ford right now is at an all time Low. Traded in a 3.5 2011 ecoboost because it had so many issues now i'm getting my motor replaced just under a year in.

 

[Sirikenewtron]

Bought a left over 2016 last December and 11k miles later and the Long Block is being replaced due to oil consumption. TSB 17-2077 . My confidence in Ford right now is at an all time Low. Traded in a 3.5 2011 ecoboost because it had so many issues now i'm getting my motor replaced just under a year in.

Damn that really sucks ass. As much of a Ford guy I am I’d probably feel the same and would strongly consider a different brand next purchase.
I had a **** ton of issues with my 13 3.5 I had for little over 4 years, Traded it in for this 2017 2.7 and told myself if this truck gives me any troubles it’s time for me to move on and away from Ford. (Knock on wood, hope that doesn’t happen)


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[Tdog02]

Ford is still mute on the 2.7 engine issue. Disappointing to say the least. The ecoboost family of engines has had growing pains from inception. I believe the 2.7 is a solid design and good motor. The issue is going to be something related to the heads, either faulty manufacture, defective part, or inherent design flaw.
Ford needs to get ahead of the issue and let owners know. The overall percentage numbers are low, but high enough for a TSB that authorizes an engine or heads if caught early enough. Will this reach a level of recall? Who knows, if it happens to my truck I will be upset but what is there to do? Unless Ford shares the numbers affected all we have is word of mouth.
I’ve already been the victim of poor design from chrysler on a wrangler (head crack) and a 300C (trans case crack).
So far I’ve been impressed with my truck, both in overall design and the baby ecoboost engine. I am hopeful that I have a 300 thousand mile vehicle. (I’m serious, stop laughing) I’m also concerned that these issues now will affect resale later. Anyway, sorry for the issue you are having, the long block will be the best outcome for you. Let us know if your tech or service guy gives you a reason for the failure. Don’t ask them to speculate about all 2.7’s, get them to give you a definitive answer on your failure and let us know what they found.

 

[Tdog02]

Back from a milestone vacation for the family. 20 yr anniversary and the first teenage birthday for our daughter.
Took a cruise out of Galveston on Carnival. It was awesome!
Driving through Houston was an adventure. Speed limits shouldn’t be posted. If you drive the speed limit you will be run over in spectacular fashion.
Truck ran well, and the drive was uneventful. I missed out on the Texas snow event, but caught the storm in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday coming back to Galveston. Biggest seas I have ever sailed, 21 feet. All the outside decks were closed. Industrial grade puke on almost all the decks. I must have looked insane to some folks because I enjoyed it!
Any word back from neecoboost on his engine?

 

[2016XLT4x4]

Back from a milestone vacation for the family. 20 yr anniversary and the first teenage birthday for our daughter.
Took a cruise out of Galveston on Carnival. It was awesome!
Driving through Houston was an adventure. Speed limits shouldn’t be posted. If you drive the speed limit you will be run over in spectacular fashion.
Truck ran well, and the drive was uneventful. I missed out on the Texas snow event, but caught the storm in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday coming back to Galveston. Biggest seas I have ever sailed, 21 feet. All the outside decks were closed. Industrial grade puke on almost all the decks. I must have looked insane to some folks because I enjoyed it!
Any word back from neecoboost on his engine?

Ok, that's a coincidence... I'm Sailing out on the Valor soon. lol

 

[Tdog02]

Ok, that's a coincidence... I'm Sailing out on the Valor soon. lol

We were on Freedom. The two ships are almost identical. We managed to hit margaritaville in all three ports!

 

[Tdog02]

Well it appears that the Christmas weekend is upon us and freezing temps that have the potential to screw up doors that haven't had the recall yet. I am anxious to see how this plays out. (I'm in TX so I really don't think I will have too big a problem)

Merry Christmas guys!!! I hope Santa brings so much that your cup runs over!

 

[2016XLT4x4]

Just got off a cruise from the Valor. Good trip other than one of the tour busses flipping over while we were on an excursion near Costa Maya.
I haven't had any issues with my doors locks so far. It got down into the mid 20's here recently.

 

[Tdog02]

Filled up on the way home, just hit 26k miles.

I just finished Santa duty and finally headed to bed. Merry Christmas!

 

[Tdog02]

Add $37.56 to my running total. I bought wipers yesterday after driving for two hours in a mist and getting tired of the view.
Our blades are 22 inches for both sides, but all I could find while driving thru small towns (rural Texas) was 21’s. They seem to work just fine. Barely noticeable that they are 1/2 inch shorter on each end, tremendous improvement.

1374 + 38 = $1412

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[kbusch24]

I just read through this trend and have learned a few things! My 15 2.7 has 47K miles on it (I’ve owned it from day 1 with only 3 miles on the odometer) and I’m happy to say that I have had zero issues with this truck and engine. I’ve ran Mobile 1 full synthetic and motor craft filters since day 1 (7500 mile change intervals) and have zero consumption, always 6 quarts in 6 quarts out. I’ve added a K&N cold air intake, removed the intake silencers, put a leveling kit on, changed wheel/tires to 33”, and applied a spray in bed liner. The one thing that I did when I first bought the truck was drill a 1/16 hole in the most bottom plastic cap of the inter cooler to drain any condensation that may build to avoid any fluid from being sucked up into the intake. Otherwise everything else is stock and the way Ford designed it... it’s been flawless so far.

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