What's the Most Reliable Ford F-150 Engine? V8 or Turbo V6 - Dude, I Love or Hate My Ride @Home

Hi Tommy, which Ford f-150 do you think is more

reliable

? Is it the one with the 5 liter coyote v8 or the one with the twin

turbo

v6, the one Ford calls EcoBoost? We'll find out in this very special episode of a

love

it or

hate

it my trip

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edition, so Tommy, how are we going to figure that out? We have two owners, both with the 2013 f-150 S, one with the 3v EcoBoost, one with the 5 meter coyote and us. I'm going to have them talk about their experiences over a period of long-term ownership of both trucks, over 230,000 miles.

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most

reliable

brand: Ford, Ram, Chevy, Nissan or Is it Toyota? So we'll tell you how to submit videos with very specific questions, but first let's look at this truck, who owns it?

This is Phil, this is the 2013 model with three point five people in a new one with only five miles on the odometer he's kept meticulous records of

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he's done to this vehicle and it now has two hundred and forty eight thousand miles on it so This is a high mileage EcoBoost. Alright, play the video. I can't wait for a tear. TfL truck, this is my 2013 f-150. again on EcoBoost, this is a 3.5 157 wheelbase, this is one of the things I was definitely looking for with this truck, well if these accidents are really hard to come by at get a longer box up to a six and a half box, there are a lot of those little short ones, but I bought them mainly for hunting and then for my farm truck, they are completely bone.

I haven't done anything, no tuners, nothing under the hood I do

most

of my towing with a kingpin hitch here inside the box again, just random. stuff for my last job, all I did was just put this on, a quick connector here for my winch. I just did tons and tons, all little changes, air filters and tires, mostly a lot of tires, so here inside the truck I have my laptop open, this is my maintenance log, first year maintenance sheet, pretty much nothing, one of the things repeated here is called oil treatment, basically, we get this, this is the kind he used, it's here in New Hampshire with me, basically, it's rust proof and it keeps these trucks clean soon after , I actually noticed I had a truck at O'Meara Ford in Colorado, around 80,000, had a couple of problems at 70,000 here.

I'll call it a little bit minor because now I'm pretty used to it yeah but at 60,000 how does the throttle body go out and then unfortunately at 70,000 just seven eight or ten thousand miles later I was on a cross country trip and I think Indiana Illinois and finally in Ogallala Nebraska I finally got a solution. I found out that this truck really likes acceleration buddies. I think I can honestly say that if I went through this entire list I'm on 7th, I might die one now this truck likes throttle bodies like a fat kid with cake, it probably uses one every 30,000 miles I can change them faster than a tire.

I could just open the hood. They leave directly. More tires. More snow tires. More things. More throttle bodies. Nothing too crazy really. I just received the new order. I'll do it this afternoon. I just received some guitars from the day and just did an alignment. I was actually only the second lineup on this truck. It was barely out of spec. Trucks have really been good on tires I just drive a lot so I use a lot of them up here this is my running total Excel just adds this up for me about 2,400 flat 380 and electric stuff 330 mechanical stuff

engine

stuff again I'm going to Let's say most of that was actually a deductible for an exhaust leak, exhaust manifold leak on the right side and it's actually a leak again.

I'll probably have to put another one on that guy soon a little less than 900 brakes, almost 3,500 for tires and wheels again. it's an upgrade, this is just buying tires and wheels and another 3900 again, a big part of that is just the factory ESP warranty, the other 1400 is things like the fluid films and the oil underneath and that kind of stuff, that's the mouse 247 nine eighty-one point nine hundred forty-seven thousand won 5-1 with a trailer check

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light on just because I had to turn the key to make these things appear, I only took a two thousand mile trip, I got about 10 miles per gallon, that was eye opening. a key skid steer and something else I all forgot, but about ten miles now is a normal trailer unless you have something very heavy, very strange behind it.

The lifetime average is about 12 miles per gallon. I didn't buy this to be a hauler I bought it because I wanted to have a truck on our farm, like a lighter truck, I found it does a lot of the things you know with the exception of payload, like our diesel trucks, you can drop three, four or five. thousands of pounds in the back of a but my goodness, they just don't drive like that, so on a lot of our trips we do things lighter. We'll take this so that the interior is nothing fancy. Cabela's seat covers have WeatherTech mats on the Bottom bought this because we hope a family hasn't used it much for the kids, but it can easily fit the road here.

Get a toolbox below. I have some D wall tools right there. A couple of blankets to move around if I need to quilt something. I have a battery box that goes with this winch here just for pulling stuff on the trailer truck. It's a little dirty, as you can see again, most of this is just a function of these oil coatings underneath. My friend David does this. He drills a small hole. In the corners of the cabin here is like a 360 degree gun that shoots oil, chainsaw oil, but we have this just fine under a layer of some film, but I'm talking about the two hundred thousand mile truck in the northeast and like leather, not a speck of Ross, the bad thing is that it is as solid as can be one thing I noticed.

I put the aftermarket foot mirrors on these are just a bolt from Amazon, that's one of those things on my list, they're probably $200 or so, lots of

love

. the truck was a little let down when it was eating the throttle bodies but if you keep up with the maintenance I mean I'm very handy I can do a lot of this stuff the only thing I didn't do was the exhaust manifold and I didn't do it I'll do next time, that's not my cup of tea, but I'll replace the muffler today. I have done all the brakes.

I have done everything. No one has ever done an oil change on this thing except me and that's practically a story. Thank you. Guys, I think we'll tighten it up a little bit, yeah, my goodness, how many of you have done every oil change on a vehicle with 250,000 miles? You must have it all down to a science Tommy, yes you sure do and it sounds like you've done quite a few throttle bodies too, now it sounds like you still love this truck, you care about this truck and the fact that it's from the northeast with this little bit of rust is pretty amazing, it just goes to show that if you use the right things inside the vehicle underneath, they can last on salt, however it seems like the ranch hand out front hasn't fared so well, yeah that crash bar is pretty rusty, so now the question is how the owner has done basically the same year. the same truck but with a v8 under the hood, so who will be next?

Okay, next we have Andrew. Alright. Andrew has another 13f 115 this time with five litres. He bought it five years ago. He bought it used with 67,000 miles and now it's up to 230,000. so he's put a lot of time on the road into this vehicle. Well, I can't wait to see how it compares to the EcoBoost feature. The video, could you see the TfL vans in the morning? Hello, my name is Andrew Cummings. Well this is a 2013 f-150. 5.0 and I think the reliability on this vehicle has been very, very exceptional. I have had the vehicle for five years when I purchased it, it had 60 something thousand miles on it.

I bought it at the Ford dealership. The engines have never failed, nothing mechanically important besides. crack hoses in the coolant line so only pretty much the biggest thing was replaced besides the wheel bearing other than this truck never had anything major replaced there are a couple things that could have been done better and which I really don't like like a year ago, there wasn't a 49 man that used this here it came off a couple of times, it doesn't exist anymore, but I'll show you the truck with the mileage room, you'll still be like wow, it has a rear view camera, but I guess it's a quality Ford.

I didn't train constantly in 2013 because it doesn't work. It works when it wants. A blue screen appears. Nothing appears and then sometimes it appears. It works well. Overall, the quality of the truck for me and my family and

what

I do. the job has been very very good, i don't have any chickens, it turns on and off when he wants, like a ruttin ilex

home

type pressure sensor, that's another defective thing presented that i have had a problem with, you see, i'm with an average of fourteen point seven miles, but that's two hundred thirty-three thousand two hundred twenty-five miles, I understand the overall performance as 360 cornering horsepower and ninety foot pounds, three to four.

I'm not wrong, I just changed everything when I was supposed to. all the maintenance that is supposed to be done on these vehicles. I'm really after a 5.0. I have always had an EcoBoost which is a 2012 Lincoln but this is the new truck I added to my family is 2016 to limit it now has the EcoBoost I will see how it works. I just acquired it. I can't say much about it at this time, but I know that EcoBoost is reliable and has one hundred and seventy thousand miles. Extremely good EcoBoost. Explorer, very, very reliable. truck like I said, I can't really say anything bad mechanically or anything like that, but it could be better inside as far as the exterior, as far as the quality of the products, I will continue to put miles or I hope I can make you another video when it has another hundred a thousand miles, well, I got really tight.

Both trucks have lasted and have stood the test of time. I like the red coyote better just because I'm a driving fanatic, yes, but up here at elevation, the EcoBoost. It's a much more powerful engine, so I'd probably choose the EcoBoost just in terms of outright power. Now it's interesting to see the perspectives of these two owners. Note that this may not represent the entire multitude of eco-cabs and five-liters because they are used differently at their different ages, but it is interesting to see the perspectives of two actual owners, yes, but let's make it a little more scientific, Tommy , because we want to hear from you how long your truck has lasted and how it has lasted, so Andre was very nice. to put together a series of questions that we would love to have answered in videos that you send us that way we can do an apples to apples brand comparison for Andre to take away Hey guys, yes we want to know about your high mileage truck but we want to structure it in a very specific way, that's why we ask for the top 10 things about your high mileage truck, so we not only want to see your truck but also be able to structure the data so when we publish it, we can tell people about each main component of your truck and how it has performed over time, so the first critical component, probably the most expensive component of your truck or any vehicle, is your engine, so I would like number 10 on the list. to hear some stories about if or when your truck left you stranded due to engine failure.

I'm not talking about a dead battery because that happens to most of us and let us know what the story was and also let us know if there was what was the cost involved in getting your truck back on the road and of course if never left you stranded, let us know, number nine and list, have you ever had to replace the injectors on your engine or do any special cleaning? to your truck's fuel system.I had a heavy duty 2002 Chevy Silverado 2500. I had to replace my injectors on that diesel engine and it was very expensive so please also let us know what the cost was related to this fuel system problem or if you didn't have any problems please let us know that very specifically number eight on the list is if you had to replace your engine's timing belt or timing chain.

If you didn't have to do this, you may have a driven gear. timing system on your diesel or something like that, but let us know because this can be expensive, it can be difficult to do and let us know your experience, especially for those trucks with a lot of miles over a hundred and fifty thousand miles, now let's shift gears. literally to the next component which is the transmission, transmissions are getting a little more complicated, they're getting more gears, transmissions are getting more expensive, but what happens if something goes wrong? So at number seven on the list, we specifically want to know one item related to your Did Your Stream Leave You Stranded?

Tell us a story about it and the cost associated with putting a truck back on the road and number six on our list is also related to the transmission we use. You want to know exactly how the transmission has performed over the life of your truck since you owned it when you bought it, maybe you did it because the truck was moving fast, but have you noticed a degradation and performance of your transmission? Now let's move on to Another Component and now I'm talking about rust, so number five on our list has to do with the chassis body or bed of your truck and any problems with rust or deterioration, let us know exactly where you live, how He drives his truck.

In the north, are they using a lot of salt on the roads during the winter? Are you in the south and maybe there is a lot of humidity in the air? W

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ver the case, let us know how your truck has lasted, so let us know that and exactly what. have to replace and maybe how much it costs to replace certain body components or deal with rust issues or if you use wax or something on your frame to prevent further rust. The next step is the safety of your vehicle, that's very important obviously, and we want to know if you had any incidents or accidents with your truck, hopefully not, but if you had a fender bender or some kind of minor issue, minor damage to your truck, please let us know first how well the truck protected you.

Well, that's number four on our list, but also number three on our list. Let us know what it took to repair it, for example, if you have a Ford with an aluminum bed, body and frame. What was needed to repair it if you have another vehicle? maybe you have a composite case or something else, maybe it's your headlights or your taillights, if any of those items were damaged please let us know how easy or difficult it was to replace or repair them and how much does it cost analyst number two has two with inside. and your truck's electronics, again, trucks are getting more complicated, they have more features, so let us know exactly how they have been maintained and performed over time and I'm talking about wear and tear on your seats, maybe your stereo. system, let us know how your center screen infotainment system has performed over time and number one on the list has to do with recalls.

What we want to know at this point is if your truck had an urgent recall that you had to take it in for. to the dealership specifically to take care of a safety item, we're not necessarily interested in minor recalls on software updates that are routinely done during regular maintenance, for example, when you went for an oil change and had a minor problem. recall done, here we are more interested in the larger and more important recalls where you specifically need to take your time and get your truck off the road and take it to the dealership to get that work done and finally let us know anything else we can do.

Have you missed something about your truck, maybe an adventure story that was really cool or maybe you went somewhere and had a major problem that you have to deal with, so let us know anything else we missed that we has to do with reliability and durability. of your truck, you could be very happy or very angry about it and guys, once again, thank you and I look forward to seeing your submissions and publishing this data on the DFL truck comm website and of course on this channel here TfL truck, thank you Andre. Now we have some shipping instructions that I'll show you right now, but first let's modify it a little bit.

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Well, there you have it. Now you know what videos we are looking for, thanks to everyone who has already submitted. send us a video, please note that we are not looking for modifications, we are looking for very specific answers to very specific questions so we can find out which brand is most reliable. Can't wait yeah and head over to TfL Truck Comm for the latest and greatest in new truck reviews, as always this is Rhomin and Tommy saying thanks, see you next time ciao.