Powerboost OLM Issue

[imnuts]

For any Powerboost owners out there, it seems that the oil life monitor isn't properly set up to match Ford's recommendations for oil changes. The manual says to change the oil at 10k mi or 1 yr. However, the truck seems to be set up too track only engine running milage, not total mileage. If you're someone with a lot of electric only miles, your OLM is going to be skewed.

See below for more, but I'm ~125 mi from 10k total, but I have roughly 2500 electric only miles. The OLM is y me I have 25% oil life left, and the truck itself is estimating I can go to July (1 year) before I need service. The FordPass app shows that I should get service in the next 100 mi despite having 25% oil life remaining. @Ford Motor Company can you look into this? It seems you have the Powerboost trucks setup in such a way owners won't get notified to service their trucks based on the recommended schedule in the manual.

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[Ford Motor Company]

For any Powerboost owners out there, it seems that the oil life monitor isn't properly set up to match Ford's recommendations for oil changes. The manual says to change the oil at 10k mi or 1 yr. However, the truck seems to be set up too track only engine running milage, not total mileage. If you're someone with a lot of electric only miles, your OLM is going to be skewed.

See below for more, but I'm ~125 mi from 10k total, but I have roughly 2500 electric only miles. The OLM is y me I have 25% oil life left, and the truck itself is estimating I can go to July (1 year) before I need service. The FordPass app shows that I should get service in the next 100 mi despite having 25% oil life remaining. @Ford Motor Company can you look into this? It seems you have the Powerboost trucks setup in such a way owners won't get notified to service their trucks based on the recommended schedule in the manual.

Hello, Mark! Send us a private message with your VIN and the name and location of your local Ford dealer. I’d be happy to see what I can do to assist with this. Thanks!

 

[JEB]

For any Powerboost owners out there, it seems that the oil life monitor isn't properly set up to match Ford's recommendations for oil changes. The manual says to change the oil at 10k mi or 1 yr. However, the truck seems to be set up too track only engine running milage, not total mileage. If you're someone with a lot of electric only miles, your OLM is going to be skewed.

See below for more, but I'm ~125 mi from 10k total, but I have roughly 2500 electric only miles. The OLM is y me I have 25% oil life left, and the truck itself is estimating I can go to July (1 year) before I need service. The FordPass app shows that I should get service in the next 100 mi despite having 25% oil life remaining. @Ford Motor Company can you look into this? It seems you have the Powerboost trucks setup in such a way owners won't get notified to service their trucks based on the recommended schedule in the manual.

I’m not sure it’s malfunctioning, because I also have a Powerboost and the skewing goes both ways. You logged a lot of electric miles, which caused the computer algorithm to calculate a need for an oil change in excess of 10K miles. I do a lot of towing and mine called for an oil change around 9K miles and the more towing I did the faster it approached the warning. As the meter suggests, I think it depends on how you run the truck not just how many miles you put on it.

 

[UGADawg96]

For another data point, I'm at 4460 miles and the OLM says I can go another 5800 miles. That would put it slightly over 10k total miles which includes electric miles. I am not near the truck to fetch the lifetime electric mileage, but I would guestimate a couple hundred and can update this post once I verify. I have towed a 6500lb TT about 900 miles of the 4460 so far, so almost 20%.

 

[12Lariat21]

The manual is just a guideline. If you drive 15,000 + miles in a year, you should change your oil at least every 10,000 miles. If you drive less than 10,000 miles in a year, you should change your oil at least once per year.

The OLM, is calculated based on engine run time, mileage, load, temperature, and who knows what else the engineers take into effect when setting that up. So your OLM is a much better indicator for an oil change than the guidelines in the manual.

Manual = Absolute bare minimum maintenance required (to make the vehicle last just outside warranty period).

OLM = Minimum maintenance required based on how you are using the vehicle

Personally, especially with a turbo induction engine, I treat my OLM like my fuel gage, once that hits 50-40%, I'm looking for the next convenient opportunity to change the oil. Fresh, clean oil won't hurt anything. Always running it down to 0% isn't necessarily going to ruin anything, but if you want the engine and turbos to last 100,000 plus miles 10 plus years, I'd say your a gambling man. That's my 2cents anyway.

 

[Oxford_Powerboost]

For any Powerboost owners out there, it seems that the oil life monitor isn't properly set up to match Ford's recommendations for oil changes. The manual says to change the oil at 10k mi or 1 yr. However, the truck seems to be set up too track only engine running milage, not total mileage. If you're someone with a lot of electric only miles, your OLM is going to be skewed.

See below for more, but I'm ~125 mi from 10k total, but I have roughly 2500 electric only miles. The OLM is y me I have 25% oil life left, and the truck itself is estimating I can go to July (1 year) before I need service. The FordPass app shows that I should get service in the next 100 mi despite having 25% oil life remaining. @Ford Motor Company can you look into this? It seems you have the Powerboost trucks setup in such a way owners won't get notified to service their trucks based on the recommended schedule in the manual.

Have you considered that fordpass is estimating needing an oil change in 100 miles because that will be 10k. So maybe despite that the oil life is still at 25%, the computer knows not to go over 10k

 

[imnuts]

I just looked at the manual to confirm what I thought was there and it seems to contradict itself. What I was mentioning in the first post is the second point highlighted yellow. The OLM seems to ignore this, as does the FordPass miles to service calculator. While I think the oil can go further than 10k miles with significant electric mileage, my concern would be an engine issue down the road for someone that didn't change the oil around 10k and followed the OLM having their warranty claim denied. Probably a very unlikely situation, but still a concern.

 

[UGADawg96]

For another data point, I'm at 4460 miles and the OLM says I can go another 5800 miles. That would put it slightly over 10k total miles which includes electric miles. I am not near the truck to fetch the lifetime electric mileage, but I would guestimate a couple hundred and can update this post once I verify. I have towed a 6500lb TT about 900 miles of the 4460 so far, so almost 20%.

Update: I have just under 500 electric total miles. So that would put me right around 10k for OCI regardless of 500 electric miles and 900 towing miles so far.

However, I'm leaning towards getting the first one done at 5k and then riding the OLM after that.

 

[Oxford_Powerboost]

I’ll add my data point from my last oil change

I didn’t have a trip meter for it so not sure on the electric miles but total miles were 7859 and my OLM reported 24% remaining.

 

[Who are you]

does the total miles actually matter? When its in electric only, the engine isnt running/ crank not spinning, correct? Just tries to maintain slight oil pressure?

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